Well, I know that a few of my friends have dome this recently, but I will be getting laminate installed in my daughters bedroom and my study soon. These are the last two rooms upstairs to be done, and this time, we are hiring someone to do the job. The other three rooms and the hallway took six months to get dome. Hopefully paying someone else to do this will make it get done in a more timely manner.
The bad part about paying someone else to do it is that i am going to have to clear the rooms out. My daughter's room won't be so bad. It's currently fairly sparse, so we will move most of the furniture into my wife's study and move the rest into the hall or my son's room. Then, she can sleep in the top bunk of my son's room for a couple of nights. No, the bad room will be my study. I have a rather large desk, which is stacked high with electronics or computer software, a three foot tall refrigerator, two large stuffed bookcases, more computer equipment stuffed under the desk, and a closet so full of computer/power/phone cables and old PC cases, action figures, stored computer software, etc that you can't go in. All of this needs to be moved out. Unfortunately, I don't know if I have time to find new places for these things throughout the house and sort through the rest and actually get rid of it, or if I should just shove it all in the shed/attic/garage and worry about it later.
Anyone know of a 12 step program for packrats?
Saturday, June 23, 2007
I have just logged into my personal email account for the first time in nearly three weeks(1 week of vaction, and two weeks involved in the company move). Since I am between spam filter programs, I had over 1200 emails in my inbox. I estimate that there will be about 50-100 emails worth reading in the lot, but the rest will be just spam. Bleh.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
The Graduation Tour
Just got back in from my nephew's and brother-in-law's graduations. My Nephew's was in Houston, and my brother-in-law's was in Lexington, VA. I don't know that I would exactly call it a vacation. There were a couple days which were fun, but none that were relaxing by any stretch of the imagination.
The worst part, had to be the trip to Dulles on Sunday June 3rd. Our flight From Houston to Dallas was delayed, and our connecting flight from Dallas to Dulles was delayed by over three hours. This is on top of the original 3 hour layover we already had in the schedule. Needless to say the kids were out of it when we arrived, and weren't even awake to walk to baggage claim at 12:15 AM Monday morning.I got to the Dollar car rental building at Dulles at about 12:45. After waiting an hour and 15 minutes in line, they didn't have the car I had reserved, could only rent me a minivan, and that would be an additional charge, and if I wanted my wife to be able to drive, that would be an still another additional $10.00/day(For $10.00/day, I'll do all of the driving. She can sleep in a car, I can't). This was the point in which the girl went in the back, and I heard a manager in the building. He hadn't bothered to come out and help with any customers since I got there. She told me that she was taking ten dollars off that upgrade, so it would be 20 dollars, and pointed to the line on the contract. Needless to say, I am not as young as I used to be, and 2:00 AM I am no always thinking at the top of my game. Additionally, I was mad. What I didn't notice was that this was a $20.00 Upgrade fee, in addition to the fee's I was already paying. After dealing with the national HQ, they said that the only thing I could do was take it back and pay for the day. As I was doing this, the right mirror popped off, at 55 MPH. I didn't hit anything. Nothing hit me, as far as I can tell. It just popped off. Only the glass fell off, and it was tethered to the car by a piece of black string. These weren't the electrical cables top adjust it. Those were still visible behind the mount.
On the plus side, I did get a better deal over at Budget, spouses are free, they offered a free upgrade from SUV to minivan, if I wanted it (I'll pass). The deal was so much better, that I was able to pay an additional $11.00 for a Garmin StreetPilot c550 and still come out better. The StreetPilot was very nice to have since I was driving in areas that I was totally unfamiliar with, and it even had a subscription to traffic alerts to help bypass traffic in Washington DC.
Additional plusses included a day spent at Johnson Space Center/Space Center Houston and a tour along Skyline drive, with a hike down to a nice waterfall in the Blue Ridge mountains. We probably went about a thousand feet down, to get to the bottom of the falls. The bad part was that I had to go back up to get back to the car.
The worst part, had to be the trip to Dulles on Sunday June 3rd. Our flight From Houston to Dallas was delayed, and our connecting flight from Dallas to Dulles was delayed by over three hours. This is on top of the original 3 hour layover we already had in the schedule. Needless to say the kids were out of it when we arrived, and weren't even awake to walk to baggage claim at 12:15 AM Monday morning.I got to the Dollar car rental building at Dulles at about 12:45. After waiting an hour and 15 minutes in line, they didn't have the car I had reserved, could only rent me a minivan, and that would be an additional charge, and if I wanted my wife to be able to drive, that would be an still another additional $10.00/day(For $10.00/day, I'll do all of the driving. She can sleep in a car, I can't). This was the point in which the girl went in the back, and I heard a manager in the building. He hadn't bothered to come out and help with any customers since I got there. She told me that she was taking ten dollars off that upgrade, so it would be 20 dollars, and pointed to the line on the contract. Needless to say, I am not as young as I used to be, and 2:00 AM I am no always thinking at the top of my game. Additionally, I was mad. What I didn't notice was that this was a $20.00 Upgrade fee, in addition to the fee's I was already paying. After dealing with the national HQ, they said that the only thing I could do was take it back and pay for the day. As I was doing this, the right mirror popped off, at 55 MPH. I didn't hit anything. Nothing hit me, as far as I can tell. It just popped off. Only the glass fell off, and it was tethered to the car by a piece of black string. These weren't the electrical cables top adjust it. Those were still visible behind the mount.
On the plus side, I did get a better deal over at Budget, spouses are free, they offered a free upgrade from SUV to minivan, if I wanted it (I'll pass). The deal was so much better, that I was able to pay an additional $11.00 for a Garmin StreetPilot c550 and still come out better. The StreetPilot was very nice to have since I was driving in areas that I was totally unfamiliar with, and it even had a subscription to traffic alerts to help bypass traffic in Washington DC.
Additional plusses included a day spent at Johnson Space Center/Space Center Houston and a tour along Skyline drive, with a hike down to a nice waterfall in the Blue Ridge mountains. We probably went about a thousand feet down, to get to the bottom of the falls. The bad part was that I had to go back up to get back to the car.
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