Daves Personal Blog

Welcome to yet another week of Iowa Winter Weather.. Gotta love this weather.. warm one day, frigid the next.  It’s all good tho, that’s why we live in Iowa right?  Right?

Sorry for flaking on the weekly update last week, things got pretty busy and such.  And as such, this week will be extremely short as well.

The Floors, last of 'em

As of 2/23 we got all the flooring down except for just a little bit in a couple of closets.  That means we can start to furnish.  Tonight we plan on cleaning to get ready to furnish the first floor.  The daughter has already moved back into her room, we still have the wall decals to do on the sons room as well.  All that is rather easy however.  

I’m still working on getting the Garage plugs and switches all done.  That is taking a lot longer than I expected because of all the oil/gas mixture that is coating the plug boxes that I have to clean out.  As well, the wires are just a bit to short to do anything with so I have to pigtail almost all the plugs.  It will be all good once it’s done tho, it will be a big achievement when it’s done.

We are getting a big bunch of deliveries this weekend too.  Friday we plan on getting the: Fridge, Dishwasher, Base Cabinets and Living room furniture delivered.  Over the weekend we are trying to get just about all of our remaining stuff moved out of our temporary place and in to the house proper.

I’m sure there’s a lot that I’ve missed.. hopefully soon I’ll have more time to just sit and do nothing for a few days.. play some games.. watch some TV.. The kids Birthdays are this week too, so it begs to be another busy week.  Jake’s is Wednesday with a pizza party somewhere.. and Jenni’s is Friday.  She is planning on having a party at the house.. which is another reason we are trying to get everything in and going.

Welcome to another week of my ranting and raving.. but this week we have some interesting facts and some good news.

Kitchen Walls

Dinning and Front Room

First, let’s start off with some good news, we got quite a bit of painting done over the weekend.  It was a busy 3 days.  We got most of the kitchen done, have a wall left in there.  We got the dinning room and living room painted, we might have some touch-ups in there.  We got the hallway to the downstairs bedrooms painted and the bathroom almost done (painted, toilet installed, shower head installed)

Future rebuilding news, seems they are going to attempt to start on the floors this weekend, which is awesome.  We are meeting with a new insurance agent coming up soon.  We should be finishing up the kitchen and bathroom this week.  We also have some old high school friends coming in to town to visit this week that want to help paint, so that will be fun.

In other news, seems the world is going to end this Friday, at least in the *nix world.  That’s always fun to know.  Seems the date for Friday the 13th, 2009 is: 1234567890 for the UNIX timestamp.  It’s always fun when people find neat little things like that.

As well, I’ve decided that I’m going to re-start my work with TCR.  I figure, why keep hard feelings, life is too short.  I like working there, I miss the people I worked with.. so with Fences you should see me hanging around a little more.

Well more next week, hopefully we will have some pictures of the floors

Hello again world.. It’s another week, a whole new month of 2009.

Today is, of course, groundhog day.  Poor phil saw his shadow which means we have 6 more weeks of winter.  I got to thinking, doesn’t he USUALLY see his shadow, I can’t remember a time where he hasn’t.  But I must due my duty and watch the movie today.. Get that out of my system.

As well, this weekend I got to play some more WOW.. I have a couple of toons up to 20, which means I get to leave the starter areas for .. well greener pastures.. however, most of the time you get quests that “point” you in a direction.. with my Draeni Paladin, however, I really didn’t have anywhere to go, I moved over to the wetlands to do some questing there.. We’ll see how that goes

The Floors

Floors & Walls

More work happened on the house this week, we had people in the last few days (sans Sunday) that was doing the mudding and did some sanding.  They should be getting close to doing the final texturing.. We have also bought all the paint and gotten all the wood for the floors that we need.  There was 53 boxes of flooring, which totalled just a little over a ton of wood flooring.. We tried not to stack it all in one place.   We are getting close.. Once the walls are up we can go full bore on the paint and floors.. I believe they can happen at the same time as long as we are careful.  The kitchen cabinets are getting ordered sometime this week, and as soon as we the floors in the kitchen, we will get our appliances put in there.. things are wrapping up hopefully.  I’m hoping that once we get the walls ready for work, we can just plow forward as we won’t really be waiting on skilled labour.  The floors however, we do have to have someone in to do those.

Well that’s all for this week.. come back next week for more ramblings and more complaining, and we’ll see how much got done on the house..