Filed under: House
a big break since my last post… life has been a little hectic and filled with lots of changes… one of which is our uber-exciting finishing-the-basement project…
ever since we moved back to canada we’ve been talking about getting our basement finished… it has been, until now, a large concrete box filled with all sorts of stored stuff… pretty much everything that we don’t use on a weekly-or-so basis…
well that all started to change about three weeks ago when we finally took the plunge… and we’re far enough along now to post a couple of pictures of the quite lovely progress to date…
step one… we busted ass for a day or two moving most everything out of the basement and into the garage… we’re going to have one unfinished storage room so the really heavy stuff stayed there… after cleaning up we were left with this…
step two… framing & running electrical stuff…
three… drywall…
and today… starting to prime the walls & ceiling for paint…
when this grand ol’ project is finished we will have a great space to live… i think it’s going to be our number one hanging out place in the house… and in addition to a groovy rec room / play area avec pool table there will be a separate scrapbooking / craft room for k and a music room for yours truly…
our goal is to have this finished by christmas… our carpet pals have to come through for us big time… the likelihood of which is a tad questionable… but if they do i think we’re going to make it… which’d be pretty spiffy as this is essentially love-of-my-life karen and my gigantic xmas present to each other…
Filed under: Sport
update:
hell yeah… big ten champs and a trip to the grand daddy of them all… awesome…
sundevils have to be there too dw…
posting that most lovely and fatherly-pride inducing picture of kenzie’s art reminded me of something i saw on these here very internets a few years ago… i may have wet myself laughing the first time i saw these…
i am better than your kids & more crappy children’s art work
from the best page in the universe… arrrgh matey…
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what an awesome site… damn interesting…
i’m an inquisitive chap… quite interested in the world in general and history and how things work and whatnot… i linked to this site a couple days ago and ended up spending an hour reading about all sorts of neat stuff… and now i’m subscribed to their feed…
the internet’s cool…
via boing boing
Filed under: Music
i dig them guitars…
and gadgets… i like gadgets…
so from the guitars and gadgets angle i’d have to say this is pretty groovy… always being in tune and properly intonated… a good thing…
there’s been a couple of cool guitar things released recently… gibson also put out their digital guitar a while back… and earlier this year fender released the rather lust inducing vg strat…
Filed under: Music
so driving to work today i uncovered a most excellent tape of the most beloved and somewhat recently deceased spank, the band i was in back in seattle… sounds like it was from a practice as we ramped up for our official cd release party a couple years ago… the usual crap rehearsal space mix is evident but i was quite impressed with the little performances i found there… them there songs are actually pretty good and we played ‘em well… i really like(d) playing in a band… that one in particilar… that’d be one of the things i miss most since our cross-continent relocation last year… i think a new, most likely solo, musical experience is coming though… there’s going to be a music room / studio in the new basement where i plan on laying down some phat tracks yo… stay tuned…
Filed under: Music
so driving to work today i uncovered a most excellent tape of the most beloved and somewhat recently deceased spank, the band i was in back in seattle… sounds like it was from a practice as we ramped up for our official cd release party a couple years ago… the usual crap rehearsal space mix is evident but i was quite impressed with the little performances i found there… them there songs are actually pretty good and we played ‘em well… i really like(d) playing in a band… that one in particilar… that’d be one of the things i miss most since our cross-continent relocation last year… i think a new, most likely solo, musical experience is coming though… there’s going to be a music room / studio in the new basement where i plan on laying down some phat tracks yo… stay tuned…
the good…
friday night was a date night for love-of-my-life karen and i… the kiddos were with their omi so we hung out and had a relaxing evening at home… had a fellow drop by to give us a quote on finishing our basement, had a drink or two, and caught up on some tv shows that we haven’t had time to watch… ’twas lovely…
the bad…
yesterday… the day i officially got old… for two reasons…
first… k and i dropped by the home depot… that gleaming orange beacon of possibility… and checked out some paint and carpet samples for the aforementioned soon-to-be-finished basement… whilst in-store we dropped by the most excellent and quite convenient tim hortons located therein… and were treated to quite possibly the funniest/most frustrating retail experience that i’ve seen in a while… behind the counter there were two kids that were truly inept… the lil’ feller that eventually “waited” on us was seemingly petrified/confused to be doing so… it was interesting enough to watch this poor soul deal with the public before us and then stumble through our order… when it came time to exchange funds is when it truly became great… our total was $2.93 (or about $3.11 USD… zing… hah) so i gave him $3.00… he says (and there’s no way to fully describe the sheer aggravating whinyness of his voice) “erm… we’re out of pennies” and gives me a nickel… i looked at it and said “so how are you gonna give me my change” or something to that effect… at this point love-of-my-life karen started edging away from the register… heading for paint and carpet land… the cute lil’ in-over-his-head feller shrugged his shoulders and said/whined “it’s only two cents”… so i explained to him that it was actually my two cents, called him a whippersnapper, and killed him… actually… after a second to process the situation i laughed it off and went to look at paint and carpet…
second… being as we’re about to embark on this basement thing all the crap treasures had to be moved out so whoever ends up doing all this stuff can see the floor… evidently that’s important… so i moved it all into our garage… and while in the past i could usually count on being a bit sore a day or two later from such an endeavo(u)r yesterday i was feeling it right away… by the end of the day my knees felt like they were going to explode and my body hurt all over… old… definitely old…
and the ugly… that’d be this debacle… looking for some kinda silver lining it becomes evident that a 1997 rose bowl rematch between the bloved buckeyes and my pal dw’s asu sundevils is a real possibility… and that’d be awesome…
