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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Monday, September 13, 2004
The House Revival Josh's old room will now be used as our computer room and office. Computer(s), scanner, printers, file cabinets, etc., will now be displaced from "The Dungeon" and will find a new home upstairs. I have a Herman Miller or Steelcase heavy duty commercial office utility table (you can dance on this thing with ten people and it won't even budge) that I have used a two-computer work station desk. I'm not sure if Danielle and I are going to use that as our computer desk, as it really won't go well in the new room. I think Danielle is going to check Art Van and see if anything jumps out at her. Ultimately, it would be nice to have two nice computer desks, but if my taste were king, we'd have to spend $1000 for two nice desks and matching chairs. I have a great idea! Perhaps my two-computer workstation table can stay in "The Dungeon" and that can become my computer "Service Center" where I can work on customer's computers, build my computer(s), and perform all my computer maintenance and electronic maintenance tasks. That sounds like a wonderful idea! This way, I can keep my plethora of computer parts in the basement, instead of hauling them up to the new "Computer Room"! I have enough working computers in my house, where I can keep a few running downstairs... everybody needs a walk-up in every room of their house. Finishing the new "Computer Room" was a pretty daunting task. The ceiling (I hate painting ceilings) needed three coats. It's just so darn hard to paint the ceiling. It always looks like you're getting good coverage, but most of the time, you're not. Couple that with not wanting to get paint in your eye, and usually, the roller is more dry than wet (i.e. it's not "almost dripping" like it should be when painting walls). This was the first time that I ended up using 3M's new blue masking tape. I masked off the ceiling a few days after it dried with a nice "masking tool" The masking tool still required two people: Danielle would play "musical chairs": as I masked the ceiling, she'd move a chair over in front of me, I'd step over, continue masking, and she'd repeat. The masking tool allowed me to put the tape one totally straight. We painted the walls with dripping rollers... and still many areas required a second coat, and even a third coat. You think you're totally covering a wall, but when that paint dries, your sins are revealed. Framing the room was the hardest... painting those dreaded wall/ceiling corners, hoping paint doesn't creep through the tape and up on the ceiling. The blue tape was a miracle, and no paint creeped. I was amazed. Danielle was a champion painter, and was finishing walls faster than I could frame. I was very impressed. I think she enjoyed her painting experience, and she may even start her own TV show: "Prissy Eye for the Manly Guy". We were up well into midnight last night, starting painting well after 8pm... it may have been 9pm. She stuck through the turmoil of painting without losing steam. There were a few times she noticed "shiny things" in other rooms, but for the most part, she did more than her share of labor. The room ended up looking totally rich and marvelous. We decided on a color named something like "Applesauce Butter". You won't need me to tell you that it's a deep, golden brown. It looks very rich in that room. Now, I'm troubled over the oak trim. I don't like oak trim at all. Oak trim is for country homes and farm houses. Unfortunately, I just can't subject myself to painting oak... it's a beautiful, rich (and expensive) wood; it's blasphemous in the woodworking trade. I may just pull the molding off and save it, and replace it with primed and painted white trim. I need an executive order to be able to do that. The request is in. We'll wait and see. Next on the hit list will probably be painting Spare Bedroom #2. Not sure if I want to sign up for this before the wedding. Lot's to do. And shit... I still have three web projects that need to be completed or at least started. I've been totally slacking like a loser. But where do I find the time?! On top of that, there's still four weeks of work to fill into 2.75 weeks. I still haven't been fitted for my own tux. Slacker! Finally, family room has been buttoned up as much as it can be. We moved a large table to the corner and we're using that for a TV stand. I ended up buying an APEX 20" TV?DVD combo. I'm not the combo type, but for the cost ($179), I just couldn't pass it up. It's not a flat screen or a Trinitron, but the picture looks sharp, and APEX DVD players are always on the elite end (not bells and whistles... more on the end of being able to play almost every DVD/CD type). Oh yeah... we're going to move our shower gifts into the basement, and finally start utilizing the non-used room of the house: the living room. I'm going to move the home theater up from "The Dungeon" and put it upstairs in the living room. It's not an easy job because I'll need to mount surround sound speakers, which means that I'll have to snake speaker wire up in the attic... which also means I'll have to drill holes either in the ceiling, or into the opposite walls (damn... I weep just thinking about the work involved, snaking speaker wire into walls). We have lots of work in front of us. I want to do everything today... that's my problem. But Rome wasn't built in a day, right? posted by Dino at 10:40 AM (permanent link)
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