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Labor Day Weekend (16:44) - Why is it that a holiday that commemorates the working man, that almost demands that you take the day off of working and spoil yourself with doing nothing, ends up being one of the home improvement mega-days? Now that I... | 15919 Comments

Hey, I know that address (16:50) - Look at my garage door. I've decided to remove this post, as I was not very nice in it. The gentleman that crashed into my door came over to my house last night to appoligize and offer to pay for... | 2810 Comments

Feelin' like less of a man (13:44) - So I decided that when I bought my house I would do all kinds of things that I couldn't do when I was a renter. FOr instance, I really wanted to plant a garden, and paint my walls crazy colors... | 24 Comments

Gardening is the new pink (08:06) - I finally got around to doing some planting with Kim's help two wekendsa ago. Here are some pictures of our efforts. The green bushy plants were there previously, only the flowers are new. I'm also working on ripping out all... | 1844 Comments
I'm Handy (07:55) - Bought this: Last weekend and installed it yesterday. I got it on sale at Lowes. It's made by delta. This is what the old one looked like. It took me damn near 2 hours to get the old faucet off... | 259 Comments

We got a dog (13:45) - We got a Doggy, we got a doggy. We rescued him from ARF.... | 98 Comments

Nice, Relaxing weekend... (14:29) - Last weekend was fun, busy but fun. And oddly relaxing all at the same time.: Friday – Kim was at the Sarah McLachlan concert in San Jose with Jackie, so I made myself useful and got Gallery up and running... | 15 Comments

Our house, in the middle of the street. (16:01) - Finally moved everything into the house this last weekend. Feels good to have the entire ordeal done with. Spent most of Sunday cleaning the apartment and generally doing and buying al the stuff that you do and buy when you... | 2009 Comments

Moving day... (16:45) - Moving day is tomorrow, and all of my friends are playing poker tonight in Davis. Wish I could be there but, alas, I must paint and move shite. I friggin hate moving, I would just as soon swallow broken glass.... | 2979 Comments

Not outta the woods yet. (17:04) - We signed the loan docs and escrow papers for the house yesterday, only several weeks late due to the fuckwit that orriginally handled our loan. I will be posting his name for the world to see once our loan gets... | 1099 Comments