29
Dec
it’s been a long, slow (but clean) slog with my beloved new toto drake toilet. there it sits, in my new bathroom, taunting me. i cannot christen it, for lo, it continues to leak like a white house aide.
we have tightened the bolts and reseated the tank four times now. my dad […]
17
Dec
so walker and i are sharing an apple and watching the surprisingly close sonics/stons game when i pull up cnn.com…
me: “oh, they pulled one of those climber’s bodies out of a cave on mt hood.”
walker: “did they pump his stomach and find two more?”
why yes, we are well suited for each other, aren’t we?
in other […]
13
Dec
“That is the biggest crap I have ever seen,” Bickerstaff said, according to NBA.com. “It didn’t even come into play. So there is no response to that.”
this guy hangs around with 7′, 300lb dudes. i bet he’s seen some big crap in his day. remind me not to invite bernie b into my […]
11
Dec
aaaaaaand ballgate is over. sheed got another tech the other night. that’s okay, because he also did an awesome q&a (down the page, box 7) with marc stein about ballgate.
meanwhile, we are winding down phase 3 of operation non-nauseating bathroom. i’ll just post one picture from today; the rest are now on […]
08
Dec
it’s amazing how a tiny 4.5×6′ room can take painters an entire five days to get through. granted, three of those were drywall repair, ceiling de-texturing, patching, and sanding. then yesterday was sanding and smoothing, two coats of primer. today, two coats of paint, and cleaning up mess-ups on the windowframe that […]
06
Dec
need i say more?
things are progressing nicely up in The Ugly Bathroom. ceiling is scraped and today was the third day of patching and mudding and scraping. tomorrow is sanding and hopefully priming, then friday is painting. and then…tile!
crap, i need to come up with something to make for dinner.
03
Dec
demo==DONE.
naturally joshva got his mitts all over the toilet before i remembered to take a “before” picture. so here’s the best i could do.
fig. 1 this is what i have lived with for the last threeplus years, including oneplus full-time. close-ups will follow, but here’s the lowdown:
– vanity with crooked fake drawers and […]
02
Dec
big weekend. walker is off at umich ross orientation, i have my very first baby shower to attend in less than two hours. it’s been a pretty decent week-10 year hs reunion last saturday was really enjoyable, seth and brian were in town, been playing some zelda, and the stons are rolling.
but the […]