Monthly Archives: March 2007

Put down that cat food, Eugene, and pass me the ammunition. 0

1. Payroll calling me about filing insurance paperwork by EOD today. See #2.
2. The cable modem died last night in the wee hours.
3. Payroll calling to tell me to fax it, then. No landline. See also #2.
4. Two conference calls, and two deadlines tomorrow.
5. Coworker asking if I’ll email the doc. See also #2.
6. Seventeen [...]

house progress pt I 0

I have a sense of style. I have an eye for design. I don’t have an eye for knowing instinctively what design here will work with that design there. I tend to just throw it all together and hope it’s not too jumbled… and then I find out it is, but it feels like it [...]

marauding rosebushes 0

Last fall, we had a sudden cold snap — the temp went from low 80s to freezing overnight — and 99% of my front garden promptly went brown. Snap the fingers and that’s as long as it took. Only the two bottle-brush plants remained, but grew no more, so I’m not sure whether they stay [...]

the end is almost frickin’ nigh 0

Not the entirety of my todo but it’s at least the doable, not-too-emotinally-stressful, no-failure-fear, house-related part. At least now I can strike off each part and be done with it. (Too bad I’m making the list now rather than three days ago, or I could add: regrout & seal, recaulk master bath, and then knock [...]

grump. 0

Dear Mr or Ms Fancy-Pants Architect:
I’m sure you think your site is just lovely. The flash is certainly spectacular, even if this means I have to use a screenshot to capture any examples of your work. (And you thought you’d managed to avoid that, how little you know of technology and determined visitors.) But I [...]

pig, meet purse. 0

Must be spring: I’ve been working on the house like a madman, and in between downloading like crazy, getting ideas from various sites and checking on how-tos from carpenters about some of my ideas. In the meantime, I’ve realized a few more truths of the universe. First. That design show — While You Were Out, [...]