Remodel Update Week 18
There are still a number of things on our punch list, but, the remodel is done! When we started the project it was expected to take 16 to 20 weeks, and we ended it right at 18. This week the flooring was installed, the electrical was finished, the network and other low voltage infrastructure got punched in and the security system was turned back up. The carpet was an amazing transformation. In one day the space went from a construction zone to a place you walk around in bare feet and goof around with the kids in.
We love everything about the new spaces we created. We wouldn’t change a thing. We’ve moved a bunch of our stuff back in and the rest of it will come together in the next couple of weeks. This will be the last set of weekly photos I post. I will do another final wrap up post when all the furniture is in place to show what it looks like when completely done.
I’m posting more photos than normal for the final recap. You can see there is still another day of painting to be done this coming week, and the AV guy will be out to install the in-wall speakers and put TV’s in place.
Vitamix in the house
I think everyone knows that I’m the gadget guy at our house. Tammy will often cite that she is anywhere from ambivalent to gadgets, to occasionally finding them outright annoying. With that background, it was a bit of a shock that on a recent visit to Whole Foods she was captivated by the Vitamix. Next thing you know we have one in our kitchen!
The Vitamix is tangentially related to our 30 Day Vegan Challenge. There is a lot of food that you can make using wonderful whole ingredients and a ridiculous blender. We’ve given it the rounds this weekend with some smoothies to get things going and they are awesome.
As a guy that is very familiar with the highest end blenders around I’m very impressed. For years I’ve had a BlendTec and I’m a big fan. The BlendTec is a ridiculous blender as is the Vitamix. Both have areas of specialization, but so far I’m amazed at some of what the Vitamix can pull off.
Tyler Double Doodling
Tyler has been having a great time playing with the Magna Doodles lately. He will not just play with one. He has to have both. And he mostly enjoys carrying them all over the house. Occasionally he will stop to scribble on them. But only for a moment and then more carrying.
Jobs Cake
We have a lot of Apple people at 8thBridge. On Thursday we marked Steve Jobs’ passing with a cake in his memory. The screen dimensions on the frosting iPhone are a bit Android-ish, but a great decorating job nonetheless.
Building git, so I’m installing about 200 packages first. That makes sense. 😕
Got my iPhone 4S pre-ordered!
Great night for Minnedemo! Thanks to St. Thomas for hosting. 8thBridge demoing tonight! Watching Mike Bjerkness changing the code on the demo. 14 mins to go. Hope the git push works! 😀
Steve Jobs, t_hero.png
My friend Kent found this and commented
on Facebook
about it. I wanted to capture it for posterity. On Apple’s
website the tribute to Steve
Jobs has an appropriate file
name, t_hero.png. (see the highlighted code in the
inspector window under the page.)
gapingvoid: Rays
My daily gapingvoid cartoon showed up in my mailbox this morning with Gloop. It seemed like a good message for the day.
This is a character I created when I was in college named “Gloop”. Still, he turns up as a makeshift alter ego in drawings every now and then. Gloop represents the human spirit that is still fighting to keep its dignity and self-belief when circumstance humbles us beyond all recognition. It represents the little voice in the back of our minds assuring us that hope does spring eternal even in the worst of times. This is for all of the start up guys, the going-deeper-into-debt-grad students and all of us who know that by believing in ourselves we will wind up in a better place. About those rays of hope—they’re still there and we still need them.
Always Connected — I’ve talked to some of my super-wired friends about what I call “digital fatigue”. This is it.