My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
My uncle died this weekend. My mom’s brother, and the one who taught me a lot of neat things when I was very young. My mom was at school and my dad worked, so he lived with us and took care of me during the day when I came home from school. We would always look at the stars together, and I remember one time when he woke me up at 3:00 in the morning to go watch a meteor shower.
After almost two months, I am blogging again. This hiatus was imposed by Blogger, who have been unable to get my blog publishing again. I found a workaround and have migrated everything to WordPress. However, this means that some things on this site are not going to work quite right. I have to convert all the pages from ASP to PHP. I might lose the GPA calculator because nobody uses it anymore.
Wow! Now that the bathroom has been patched, repainted, and decorated, it looks so much better than it did before. I spent about 10 hours in there yesterday patching, priming, painting, and fixing things. I managed to stabilize the showerhad a bit with a shim. I then shot some caulk into the hole to keep it from moving.
We just finished the move. We’re in the process of setting all of our stuff up, and I’m in a lot of pain. My students helped me paint my house last weekend and in order to prepare for that, I had to do a lot of hands-on renovation like pulling up carpet strips and other assorted crap. I ended up with a lot of cuts on my hands and they really hurt.
Going offline for a few days. Lots of moving to do!
Painting’s done. Thanks to Dan, Travis, Erich, Josh, Kristi, Matthew, and Titus who came by on Sunday to help out. It was good to see Titus. I felt bad that we couldn’t go out and do something, but at least I got to see him. We all had pizza and beer to celebrate all of the hard work and we enjoyed the evening. I still have more painting to do, but I am so burned out right now that I don’t even want to think about that.
I just spent the last two days working on this house and I hate it. I’m frustrated that I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d wanted to. We did get the carpet strips removed, but I found that I have a couple of broken stairs, some slivered wood, and a bathroom that is worse than I feared. Upon removing some loose paint around the tub, I managed to pull off the top layer of the drywall underneath the showerhead.
Josh, Eric and I finished washing the walls in the living room and dining room tonight instead of practicing Karate. The walls were so filthy that we went through about 30 gallons of ammonia water for just two rooms. The color of the walls has changed quite a bit, and I think we may have actually taken some of the paint off of the walls too. That’s alright though because we will be painting it this weekend.
Carissa, Ana, and I spent the weekend over at the new house doing some work. We pulled up the carpet that was in the living room, dining room, and hallways. There was so much dust underneath the carpet that I couldn’t breathe. The smoke smell was awful and when we took the carpet outside to get it out of the house, I nearly threw up from choking. THere was almost an inch of dust on the floor where the carpet had been, but after we cleaned up the dust, the floor looked pretty decent.
We closed on the house today. It really wasn’t a very big deal. We signed a lot of papers and read a lot of legal forms, at which time we were handed the keys. Dad and I spent some time this morning coming up with a game plan of how to handle some of the repairs that need to be done. But now I have to spend some time doing some work.