a little update

little gid with toast in his mouth

little gid with toast on his face

Well the last coat of polyurethane is down on the ole wood floors. They are looking very nice. Mike still has a few little trim places to take care of, but we can get to painting the den and the living room now. Being that we are within 8 days of Leslie?s official due date and that there is so much work to do on the house that we will not get it done in time, Leslie and I have decided not to celebrate thanksgiving with a meal this year. I might smoke a turkey but it?s not looking good.

I have to admit that I am getting kind of nervous. What I would like to get done before the baby comes is:

• Finish painting our bathroom cabinet doors
• The kitchen cabinet doors
• The guest bath cabinets and doors
• Paint the den
• Paint the living room
• Paint the foyer
• Wallpaper the dinning room
• Paint the newly installed Freedom French doors between the living room and den
• Paint the master bath
• Put down a 100 or more feet of shoe molding
• Paint the porch rails that dad put up
• Clean the gutters
• Rake all the leaves in the yard
• Mow the yard

We also need to buy a bed. I think Leslie and John David are going to look for one on Black Friday. Yea I know, it?s not all going to get done before the baby comes but we are going to take a stab at it. I have the next four days off of work so I should be able to check a few things off our list. Plus Leslie?s mom, brother, and stepfather are coming in this weekend, so we are going to put them to work.

I took these two pictures last night as we were running around on the new floors. He had been penned up in the playpen for several hours by the time we let him out, so when we did he was pretty darn excited to be out and chasing me around. You can click the images to see a bigger picture.

A very Sesame Thanksgiving

A very Sesame Thanksgiving

Jerry sent this to me 2 or so years ago and I ran across it
this morning. I figured the timing was about right...

IE issue

In the project I have been working on since I change teams I have a SQL Stored Procedure that is run from an ASP .Net page. The stored proc takes well over ten minutes to run and some of the computers running the stored proc time out after 30 seconds of execution time. The error I get is the generic Internet Explorer ?The page cannot be displayed? error.

The issue is resolved by making a small registry change. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\

Once there delete the Receive Timeout Double Word Value (REG_DWORD).

the last word on 214 Signal View

Well, we were out of 214 Signal View as of Sunday at 2:00. It was quite sad to walk out of that house for the last time. The house was empty and so unlike the place that had been home for the last seven years. I wish I could pull all the memories from those walls and stuff them into a little box so that from time to time I could pull that box out and rummage through it. Good times and bad, so much happened at that little home. Late nights studying for college exams, romantic dinners, weekends watching movies, months spent remodeling, creating a new life, watching that new life grow, his first steps, his first words, there are just so many memories I could put in that box.

After Leslie and I walked out of the house for the last time and locked the door, we took a slow final walk through the backyard. I did not have time to get all the leaves up this year, so the dry crunch of the leaves under our feet added to the dreamlike feeling of knowing that this was the last time we would walk through the backyard. The whole experience is really far more than I can put into words.

I am glad we sold the house and have moved onto a bigger place, but I will always think back on that home fondly. There was a love hate relationship with our little home. The amount of work we did to that place made it really feel like our own. We hope the new owners are enjoying it.

Here are a few picutures from the last 24 hours at 214 Signal View.

thank you

The house is coming right along though, we still have a ton to get done. We have to be out of our old house by Sunday at 6:00pm so things need to start falling together soon. We got some help from three people in our church small group on Saturday afternoon. It is just amazing how much work you can get done when you have six extra hands hard at work. Leslie and I are very grateful! Thank you Eric, Naomi, and Dee!

I have pictures, but I think I will wait until later to post them. I think I will put together a little before and after page when we get finished.

Jerry, Jason and I crammed in my truck headed to 2 SQUARES A DAY to meet Aaron and Troy for lunch today. It seemed funny to have Jason crammed in the back, so I decided to snap a quick picture.

blog stuff

Since the political season has come to an end I am removing the candidates link that was located at the top left of the page. I am also adding two new blogs to the blog roll. I view my blog roll as quite a sacred thing. It is my place where I can promote a site that is worth promoting or a site of someone I know.

I really hate going to blog where there is a blog roll a mile long. If it is that long I just skip right over the links. If I go to a site and there are just a dozen or so blogs in their blog roll then I stop and take a look.

Sometime here in the future I am going to break my blog roll into a few sections. Though, I have not nailed down exactly what they should be. Once I do I will break them up a bit.

I will not be blogging the next several days due to working on the house. What fun...

house update

the new floors

The work on the new house is coming along. Leslie and I have really set our standard a lot lower than we would have thought going into this project. The upstairs and the kitchen should be done by this weekend. The carpet guy is coming either tonight or Friday to rip up the carpet. We hope to get the molding painted between the time he rips up the carpet and the time he put down the new stuff on Monday. On Monday we have to start moving stuff in. Basically the downstairs is going to be a construction zone for a while. I am not excited about living in a construction zone again!

Leslie is very pregnant, but is doing well otherwise. Yesterday she was working on John David?s room. She is trying to do a whole Rothenburg theme in his room. I have to be honest. I don?t quite get her vision yet, but I think I will when it is done. She is painting a wall with turrets around the room. Don?t get the wrong idea, I think is a good idea, but I just can?t get a picture in my head of how it will look when it is done. The floors are basically down. Mike has a few boards left to put down. The picture to the right is of the floors.

driving home

kerry supporters

When driving home yesterday I passed the Hamilton County Election Commission on the corner of 4th and Georgia Ave. Not to be overly critical, but who is watching the kid to the right and why does the lady have an effigy of an evil Bush on her shoulders. Does she think that will sway voters her direction?

As always you can click the image to get a larger image.

a bit discouraged

wallpaper mess

Leslie and I are a bit discouraged. We spent the weekend working at the new house, and we did not get nearly as much done as we had planned. We painted 3 closets, two rooms, finished ripping down wallpaper, and I floated some sheetrock. We still have so much to do that we have to reconsider what has to get done before we can move in.

The hardwood guy (Mike Mayfield) showed up on Saturday to start on the floors. They look good so far. I forgot to tell Mike that we had ordered special floor grates to cover the ac vents, so he cut the opening on one of the grates to fit the existing grate. He is not sure he will be able to fit the new one in the hole. Though, he said he would try.

Here is one picture of the remodeling work being done. This room is the dinning room. The ladder is in front of the door to the kitchen.

We are going to take Tuesday night off so we can watch the election returns. We are tired. I hope we can make it until then to take a well earned break.