Some more progress

At least there is some tile now.

Hot Trip

I made it back from Phoenix. It was beautiful down there, about 100+ degrees all week. "There's no humidity so it doesn't feel hot." People, this is bullshit. Hot is hot doesn't matter how much humidity, well, it helps a little. I was there for code week. Nuclear plants basically said they are going to build and maintain their plants in accordance with ASME code. So, once a quarter all the committee sit down and disk changes, interpretations, questions, revisions, etc. to the code. My goal is to sit on a committee, which is strategic to getting Duke's input in the codes. The resort we had our meeting at is JW Marriot Desert Resort, and it was awesome. Check it out online. I however, stayed at a Fairfield Inn, not quite the same caliber. Anyways, glad not to travel for awhile. House walkthrough/closes next week, trying to figure out what I can expect for closing costs. I was supposed to get money back, I hope that is the case. Later all. Speed week is occurring next weekend. Lot's of free, quality bands. Can you say M.C Hammer. Excellent.

Nick

Bathroom Pre War time

I forgot to include the pre demolition photos. Here they are.

Bathroom War Zone

The progress towards bathroom rebirth continues on. These photos are from Monday night after the plumber and tile guy did their dirty work. :)

Progressing slowly

Wow, this painting project has been slow going. We finally got the second coat finished on Friday night. We realized on Saturday that we needed to retouch the perimeter of most of the walls. I consulted the local Sherwin Williams store and was told that we could tape the the corners where the two colors meet. That certainly helped. Now we have to give the side we just painted a week to dry before doing the same thing with the other color. Then, we will move on to the ceiling touch up. I wonder how much $ we saved doing the painting ourselves? I can appreciate a painter's craft much more now. This, 2 day project is getting drawn out to a month long stint.


Also this weekend, we had the Sears people come out to clean our airducts. What a fiasco that was. As it turns out, the technician had to build an adaptor that would fit with our furnace, think Apollo 13 where the team has to construct a device which fits a circle into a square opening. Anyway, the guy came over around 1:00 p.m. and wasn't finished till almost 6:00 p.m.. The whole time the cats were sequestered to the office while the project took place.


Today, demolition begins on the bathroom. We are replacing the: shower, linoleum and counter top. Supposedly, that project will be finished by Wednesday. I am just glad that we are not doing that one. The home stuff is really dominating our lives for now.

One more thing

Happy Mother's day to you all. New Pics of waterfalls, bears and house at my photo album online.

It's Been Awhile

Well I haven't wrote a post for awhile, so here it is. I have been traveling a bunch lately. Last week I was down in Oconee, SC for a week for the outage down there. I went down on a Wens. and stayed to Tuesday of the following week. Paige came down Thursday and stayed until Sunday morning (I was off Friday and Saturday). We ended up going to Helen, GA to see a Dutch village on Friday and a hiked to a waterfall on Saturday. Helen was pretty nice, the town is cool and littered with gift shops etc. The best part of the trip was that there a Bear Park located right there in the middle of town. It basically had a bunch of bears in a concrete pits, that you got to feed and look at on a concrete walkways 15 feet above them. We have nice pictures of the waterfall and the bears. We ended up taking the wrong path at the fork in the road, which led to a 1.5 hour uphill hike, we were really tired after the journey. So tired in fact that Paige said that we didn't have to work out for that day.
The outage was really good for me. I got to dress out in protective clothing and see the nuclear reactor, steam generators and pressurizer. That was awesome, having studied them in Nuclear Engineering, but never getting to see them in life.
This weekend is Paige and I's 1year Anniversary. I got her a couple bouquets of flowers and we are going out to Bentleys on the 27th. Supposed to be nice.

I also had to get my brakes looked at, ended up getting new rotors and some work on my rear brakes. $455.00. I thought a standard brake service originally $150.00, but no luck, and actually they recommended another $1,100.00 worth of work. If only I could do this work myself, I would save a fortune.
Anyways, I didn't nee a crap load of expenses right now, my house closes on the 29th this month and that will have a whole new set of expenses. This isn't including the fact that I will have to pay rent and mortgage for a month. Needless to say, my next paycheck is already spoken for. Sucks, but what can you do. Just keep on living.

Nick

Bedroom Remodelling Progress Report

The bedroom painting is coming along. Still haven't fixed the ceiling spots. The second coat is due tonight or this weekend. I am including some pics of the progress.

Keeping busy

Sorry it has been so long since I posted.

The intro to Franklin University class has been a bit more work than I had expected. This Tuesday is the final day. I have a presentation and a reflection paper due in class. I will be working on those today and tommorrow. IT is tough going back to school! The concept is dificult to get around: I pay them and they take up lots of my freetime with homework. The next class will determine my next move. It is intro Accounting and that starts next Wednesday. Of course, I will be in NYC for work both Wednesday and Thursday. So, the fanaggling begins.

On the home front, the master bedroom rebirth has begun. We started by moving all of the furniture, except the bed, into the living room. we spackled any hole or imperfection in the walls. Those areas gat sanded. After that, I began to: scrub the moulding, wipedown the trims and dust off the walls. Then, the painter tape was applied to the trims. Jason covered the windows with plastic. Finally, around 5ish we began to paint. By 9:00 p.m. including breaks and distractions the room had it first coat of paint. So far, it looks pretty good. The ceiling got a little paint on it. Any suggestions on how this should be dealt with? Rightnow we are planning to paint over the spots with white paint the color of the ceiling. Any suggestions? Anyway, round 2 will probably happen on Wednesday night. Work is scheduled to start on the bathroom Monday, May 15. Pictures will be coming this week.