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Ramblings / November 27, 2003 / John
I’ve just assembled 90% of The Flatpack Of Doom(tm). Every single point which was drilled to take a dowel had a knot on the back of it which popped out when I put the dowel in :-/ Anyway, the joiner is almost finished the porch and the tiler and painters will be in monday/tuesday. Huzzah!
Ramblings / November 27, 2003 / John
We’re very nearly there. The joiner is replacing the double glazed panels in the front porch today, and then finishing off the last odds and ends of woodwork. All that’s left to do is the kitchen tiling, a couple of laminate/carpet interfaces and general tidying up and nit picking. As a result, I’m in flat
Ramblings / November 21, 2003 / John
It’s Tristan’s birthday, that’s what. So everyone is up. It’s hard to believe he’s 8 already, but there we go. He’s been waiting for Mario and Luigi to be out for the GBA for months and today’s the day, so he’s up at the crack of dawn. Bah.
Ramblings / November 17, 2003 / John
The back of my throat seems to be a battleground for hordes of streetgang lurgi, all vying for overall lurgi supremacy. Gak. Anyway, I have a bloke coming out to the house this morning to measure up for carpets. Gripping, huh? At least it indicates that things are progressing – just not quickly enough for
Ramblings / November 15, 2003 / John
Ok, so we were kinda psyched up about getting back into our house next week. Aint happening. The kitchen is apparently being fitted “Next week or the week after that”, which is suitably vague. Given that all the flooring is down and there’s really just painting left to do, you’d expect it would be quicker.
Ramblings / November 13, 2003 / John
Yup, the joiners are busy laying the wooden flooring in the living room and dining room as we speak, while the painter finishes off upstairs. After that, they’ll swap over, doing the floors upstairs while the painter waves his magic brush of doom downstairs. After that it’s all hands to the kitchen. We’re getting there
Ramblings / November 12, 2003 / John
Just back from the doctor’s surgery, at ten past two in the morning. Harmony has been hacking and coughing away all night with a cough nasty enough to make her gag. Thought we’d better check her out to be on the safe side. She is, of course, fine, but parenthood bears its own form of
Ramblings / November 9, 2003 / John
I’m supposed to be attempting to sit up through the night tonight. Our little ghostie is getting fractious – probably all the talk about us looking forward to going home – and has started moving stuff about, making noises, and waking people up. I think she’s starting to bother Dotty too, cos she’s always talking
Ramblings / November 9, 2003 / John
How’s that for the name of a prog-rock band? Anyway, that’s the status with the house. All the downstairs skirtings are cut to size (they can’t fit em yet cos the flooring has to go down first) and all the joinery and making-good is done. All that really needs doing is the fitted kitchen, the
Ramblings / November 9, 2003 / John
After a brief flirtation (it meant nothing to me) with iBlog, I’ve gone back to my old faithful iJournal. Why? Well, cos iBlog is the most network unfriendly application I’ve ever encountered. It seems to re-authenticate with the ftp server for every single transaction Broken in the extreme, if you ask me.