Cube: Time Series Visualization ← This looks incredibly interesting. Cool possibilities.
Giddy to have my espresso machine back operational! New heating element in place and general tuneup!
Ring the Bell 2011
We made our first trip to the Renaissance Festival on Labor Day. As I do every year, I had to swing the hammer. I rung the bell 3 out of 5 times this year. Average.
Remodel Update Week 14
This week was all about finish carpentry. Happily the tile floor in the mudroom got installed and it does look really nice. The finish carpenters showed up and put the doors in, got trim up, installed the pocket doors and generally “finished” things. They are doing an excellent job and have one more day of work next week.
Next week the outdoor railing on top of the mudroom and the front entrance gets put on, and the painters arrive on Wednesday to do the final painting. It’s pretty straight forward stuff now through the finish of the project and only a few more decisions to make. Having the two built-in cabinets delivered and installed will probably be the biggest remaining changes to the space itself.
Delicious Pancakes with Fresh Berries.
Eating my first Saucy Burts meatball sandwich. Delicious!
Remodel Update Week 13
I think week 13 of the project will go down as the least exciting week for me. The only thing to get worked on was the mudroom tile floor. That was out of necessity, the mudroom is the access point to the basement and in the laborious process of putting in the tile floor access to the basement was cut off. The process takes days so it felt like a really slow week.
On the positive side, this marks the start of “finish work” to the project. The floor is really nice and on Friday the doors for the basement and all the finish materials were delivered. We’ve also received the exterior lights and on Tuesday (after Labor Day) the finish carpenters show up to start that work. The tile will also be finished this week. 😀
I was curious about the yellow box on the wall that said Loud Mouth on it. The electrician hooked that up to the in floor heat before the tile guy did his work. It monitors the integrity of the circuit, and if anything goes wrong during tiling it starts making noise immediately. Pretty smart to have.
Midnight in Paris
Tammy and I got to see a movie last night after a very, very long time. Can’t even remember the last one. We went to Midnight in Paris at the Edina Cinema. I really liked it. Fun, interesting and left us with a smile.
As Fall starts to approach in MN, so do Hüsker Dü and The Replacements on my playlists.
Been listening to The Decemberists all night.