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  • Monday Progress Report

    I'm trying just straight up paint for my texturing: This is the wall opposite the one along which I was reapairing the floor. The addition onto the back of the house was put on the same time the baseboard radiator syste…

  • Progress

    Here's my new floor: I was surprised how easy the whole process was. I'm not sure how the carpet I've picked out is going to be installed, so I'm going to stop here for now. What I do next will depend on whether or not…

  • Grrr!!

    It is not often I feel like a manly man, but tonight I was quite proud of the way I handled a circular saw. I hadn't really planned on it this weekend, but I thought as long as I'm going to be patching the walls, I migh…

  • Best Laid Plans...

    Tuesday was my day off this week and was going to be the day the remodel of the back half of my house really got going. I had stopped by a plumbing showroom and picked out some faucets and contacted a plumber who was go…

  • Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||| 36% Stability |||||||||||| 43% Orderliness |||||||||||||||| 63% Accommodation |||||||||||| 43% Interdependence |||||| 30% Intellectual ||…

  • Home Again

    I had a splendid time down in California! I was able to spend a lot of time with my brother and nieces, spent quite a bit of time researching and searching for the old homes in my photos and even made it over to San F…

  • I Should Be Packing...

    I should be packing right now, but I wanted to post my utility room photos: The speckled floor doesn't show up too well. You can catch a glimpse of my back door on the right edge of the first photo, so the utility room…

  • A Most Pleasant Sunday

    My vacation has for the most part begun. I say "for the most part" because I plan on spending a couple hours at work tomorrow to tie up a few loose ends. I'll be heading down South on Tuesday and returning Sunday. I s…

  • What A Mess!

    Here's what it looks like behind where my old sink was in the utility room: I got some paint today and put a coat on the top half of the concrete foundation wall. The bottom half shows where I knocked off the old plaste…

  • A BAD DAY

    I had the day-from-Hell at work today. Nothing was going smoothly and it seems like it was just one problem after another to deal with. I developed a headache that just kept getting worse and worse as the day went on…

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