Two weeks ago we moved out for a week so the floors could be done. If it was just the kitchen floor then we would have stayed, but we had them coat all the rest of the floors too since the guy who did those didn’t do the best job on them.

We’re trying to switch to a non-outdoor shoe house, so to support that I was walking around in socks. The bad part is that socks on a freshly finished floor can be pretty slippery so I fell down the stairs that lead to the laundry area. I have a nice purple blotch on my lower back but the lump is about all gone. The bruise on my toe was a line shape, then a tadpole. Now it’s a seven.

The contractor hurt his knee playing soccer last weekend so he hasn’t been able to do anything this week. He had an MRI yesterday to find out what exactly is hurt. Today he is there with the electrician hooking up all the appliances except the refrigerator since that needs a lot more effort. This all means that I can actually make the Death by Chocolate I signed myself up for.

The bathroom cabinets are finished and in place. We still need to pick out handles for them but the look good and today the countertop people are there templating the countertops. After the counters are in the sink can go in and we can get the glass to block off the shower.

This weekend we need to paint all the baseboards and door trim so they will get installed on Monday.

Please join me in…

MORTAL CHOCOLATE!

I’ve been busy but I have a reprieve. We’re moved out of the hosue this week while the floors are being done and last week and this week were to be the final weeks of our project at work. Long hours were the norm and the only downtime was the usual 5-6 hours of sleep. On the bright side, Saturday we can move back into the house and yesterday we were told we had an extra month before we ship. That gives us time to get the last features in AND make them stable. Stability was going to be lost otherwise, so it’s good all around since I don’t need to put in the long hours to get it out the door.

This weekend I hope to paint the door trims and the laundry room.

I saw this like two weeks ago now. It’s a fun bad movie, sometimes funny. Every fight scene is almost the same, a group of guys surrounds her and she kills them all. Really, all of them are like that. The environment effects are bad and the whole thing looks like it could be rendered in real time on an ultra-high-end PC. The buildings look like bales of cardboard waiting to be recycled. You will be entertained.

Also there is grouted kitchen backsplash.

First there is a kitchen faucet which is springy and has a front button to switch to spray mode for as long as you hold it. To the right of it is the soap dispenser, and to the right of that is the garbage disposal switch.

The bathroom fixtures in place so far are the bathrub controls and faucet, the shower controls and one shower head, and the toilet and dual-flush mechanism. The toilet seat will come later.

A recent report showed that girls are finally outperforming boys in school. A lot of speculation about why has been thrown about, but the reason has finally become clear. Another study just released showed that for the first time girls have surpassed boys in the uptake of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs.

The kitchen backsplash tile is in and today the grout is being done. It’s nice and sparkly in the morning sun but you can’t see that in the pictures.

I really really fixed the leak under Dar’s bathroom sink now. The water supply lines where they met the faucet were loose. I was able to hand turn each one at least another half turn.

Also after watching splash patterns with the glass shower doors and how the water gets to the floor outside the shower I realized what was going wrong. There are rubber guides at each end that have space for a specific door, indicating how they should be in place during a shower. That puts the inner door closest to the shower head which when water hits the bottom of it, bounces under and on to the floor. The outer door should be the one by teh shower because there is a lip on the other side to prevent the splash, but the rubber guides don’t allow it and have a gap by the wall so then the wall gets wet.

I was prepared to pull off the rubber guides and glue then back in the correct position, but when I pulled them off I found they covered a metal bracket what allowed me to flip it upside down and snap into position. 4 snaps later and water in the shower should now stay in the shower.

I was being good and productive this weekend. I returned some lights to Costco, I exchanged a light cover at Riverside Lighting, I put Frontline on the dogs, I got my Allegra prescription refilled, I did the recycling, and picked up everything the dogs had left in the last few days in the back yard (but not all the plusses from when they ate a box of tile separators).

Then I decided that today would be the day to finally run the bathroom vent for Dar’s bathroom. I had all the parts I had all the tools. I was going to run it to the side under the eaves like the contractor had done for our bathroom on the other side of the house. I went into the attic crawl space and made my way to the spot on the door (luckily the previous owners had put an old door up there to work on). I brushed the insulation out of the way and found a beam blocking my way to the outside edge, enough so I wouldn’t be able to get the duct in there without. Then I realized that the contractor had the luxury of having no ceiling in place, so now I have to find another way.

Oh yeah. I also got the taxes done and cleaned out the rain gutters.

Last night I watched The Cookout while I sorted recycling. This movie had potential, but I think the first-time screen writers and directors killed that. The comedy is often forced and that leaves you wanting more drama out of it. I think the direction of a light-hearted drama would have been a good direction for it to go. It works has background entertainment while you do something else though.