Day After Yesterday

So amazingly enough, life with a baby has created a time crunch of sorts… So I will attempt to recap things… I will be random, forgive me…

this weekend rebecca took mason to the burbs with her and they went to get paper for the birth announcements. They done chose good stuff. I went out the garage with dylan to hang out and work on cars. In typical Dylan/Bryan fashion, we spent more time driving around and eating then working, but it was a nice break none the less. We got work done on the rabbit, I cleaned out the Honda, reseated the stereo, and finally got the CD changer magazine out (rebecca hasn’t seen those CDs in a long time). Then we picked up Sarah and went back to our house.

We hung out a bit, then Dylan and I went to pickup Robs as well as Mr. Salsa and Thai. We all hung out at the house for a bit, it was nice. We ate at the table. It was cool. In hindsight, it is really funny. Like we haven’t ever had that many people over and eaten at the table. I think we should have more things like that. Not even dinner parties, but just people over and then we eat. Perhaps we could throw in a game of some kind as well. I love Cranium. That could rule. I may be on to something here. I need a card table or something though if we are going to play around the couch. or a coffee table. hmmmmmmmmm….

We also sold the Honda to Dylan for Sarah’s folks, so that car is no longer in our arsenal.

Sunday we stayed in for the most part. I ran a few errands. I installed the timer control for the front porch light. It is pretty neat. It occupies the place where the switch was and it is fully programmable as well as has a full look up table for sunrise/sunsets. I have it set to on at sunset and off at sunrise. It is pretty cool.

Monday I installed the projector to the wall and set that up. I forgot how nice it is to have a huge TV and video games. I played some Burnout-Takedown until Rebecca got annoyed. It was dope. The xbox mod chips come this week too, and I picked up a 160gb HD for it. Micheal and I are going to mod them up and I am all over installing xbox media center on mine. It will make watching all the tv and videos I have on the computer way easier. It will be nice. And I love tinkering with things.

We also stopped by the wabansia house and saw the kittens. Damn kittens are cool. They are so playful and entertaining. Michael needs to take more pictures. Michael’s dad built this incredible cat castle. it is insane. HUGE! totally cool, although it makes them look kinda dorky, but that is certainly ok with me. It would actually get bonus points in my book!

Mason is doing great, check his blog for more updates. He is still eating and sleeping and pooping, but he is awake more now than ever. He is also a bit fussier, not such that we can’t get him to be quiet, but it is still kinda annoying. He still grunts and groans as he tries to move around and use his muscles and whatnot. It is funny. But you can tell his vision is improving and he can focus better, which is neat. His dexterity is also improved, as he now actually will hold onto things, like a blanket, etc. It is cute.

I am sure there are other things that have happened, but I forget things.

Tonight we are going over to Robyn’s to see the new place, have dinner, hangout, etc. It is gonna rule. Mason will get to see a new place and new cats.

some times I forgot how good Ben Folds is. So good.

Life is good. I am getting a lightly used Canon Rebel 300D Digital SLR in exchange for some IT work I have done, so that will be nice. Baby is doing good (and rest assured I will have more pics in the next week once I pickup the new camera). I have lots of work to do, but it isn’t bad.

And we are going to ikea tonight so that I can buy the shelves I need for the den downstairs, which means I can wire and set up the projector and get the tv up and running. I am excited. Robyn is coming over tomorrow night. Everything is coming together nicely.

So I had the week off of work to play with Mason and help out mom. We are figuring out the sleeping thing, the pooping thing, etc. so I should be ok by monday when it is time to go back to work.

Mason rules, but I’ll leave that to his blog… My mom made mexican spinach casserole thing and it was good, but it reminded me about how much I want to eat the tortilla casserole from cornell. That was good. I miss that. So good.

Other than that, nothing super exciting has happened. Robyn and Scott came by to visit, it was nice. Robyn was saying that babies are lots of work, and they are, but it is fun anyway. Everyone should get one! heehee

The couch came on wednesday afternoon, SO nice. It fills the room VERY well, and it is so so nice to have a place to sit. So nice. I think it looks really good. There are some pics on fotki, but they aren’t great.

Other than that, we hang out with the baby and lay low.

So dylan came over yesterday and we worked on the floor in the basement. I patched a some places (albeit not that well) and we laid the subfloor in the back room. I need to add the subfloor in the hallway and the closet and the subfloor will be DONE. Then it will be time to lay the actual hardwood. it will be SOOOO nice to have that done. I am thinking now that I will work on the sub floor after work a couple days this week and get that done. Then I will work on the hardwood floor on sunday of next weekend. (Audi Club Autox on saturday, last of the season!).

So that is the plan. I also need to figure out what I am doing for shelving in that room and wire routing, etc for the projector. I have ideas:

I am thinking a darker wood stain or a black shelf that runs the perimeter of the room like 16 inches below the ceiling would be cool. I would like some rope lighting up in there for ambient lighting.

But alas, more work, less time.

Chad was in town today for all of … 12 hours or something… He had a zefer reunion thing last night… we were all able to grab breakfast this AM though… me, chad, bob, lisa, bob’s brother Joe, and fellow Ex-zefer jeff. It was nice to see everyone again. It was a nice group. It is nice to see old friends and hang out. Then I drove Chad to the airport and we chatted. He is a good guy. We differ on a few points, but overall, a great guy.

We ate at Flying Saucer, on California south of Division. It was really good. Way Veggie. Rebecca and I will need to go back.

I drove the jetta around all morning and to the airport and shit. It is a fun car, and I will be happy when I have it all done. I enjoy driving it. I will enjoy it more when I fix the things that are broken, but man, it is a fun little car.

The weather is super nice. I turned off the AC and opened all the windows. Cosby is thrilled. I set up all the accounts and bill pay stuff at washington mutual’s site. Now I gotta go get working on the basement. I need that floor done so we feel more moved in.

It will be nice…

so not that anything HORRIBLE is happening… but it is turning into an annoying day…

first… while attempting to repair my mom’s iMac, I find that the hard drive is not readable. For those who don’t know… her iMac was working fine… then half of the town lost their power. Then the power came back on, but her iMac won’t work. I have tried everything, couldn’t boot it up… Not that I have lost any of MY data, it is still frustrating… We got her a new iMac (20inch iMac G5) and it is very nice. Now she may start backing up on DVDs and this can be alleviated.

Then I stayed home waiting for the couch to be delivered. I cleaned the house a bit, organized stuff, etc. Got ready for the couch… they showed up around 1:20 or so, and low and behold the couch won’t fit up the stairway. Damnit.

So I have a clean living room and a couch I like, just no way to get it up there. I have some thoughts on how to remedy this. It involves removing walls. We shall see.

So now I am at back at work… Get some shit done, then go check out a garage space with dylan tonight before my parents get into town…

word.

and robs pointed out it has been a while since I updated… so word up…

got the website up, although not without much hassle from the hosting firm… but it is up… finally. I reiterate, they suck.

On to better things… I got the jetta running on saturday. Well, it wasn’t NOT running, but it was leaking coolant. Dylan and I replaced a hard pipe on the coolant system and she is running fine now. Oddly enough, Cali sat on the street for nearly 2 months (end of may to last saturday) and still started right up. That was cool. Remember that key item, it will come back in a minute. We replaced the line because on Sunday, I entered Cali into the CVO’s annual car show, Treffen.

Since Cali is hardly a PRETTY car much less a show car, I had to have some fun with it… Here are the pics… I won ‘Jetta Least Likely To Make It Home’. It was a good time. There were some nice cars there. I got a fair amount of amusement out of watching the other people laugh at my car. I was having a good time.

It did however remind me that I want to get this engine built and into the jetta so I can actually have a better running, non-leaking jetta. It would rule.

So that was the weekend for the most part. I have been working lots, due to things at work not working correctly. Stupid computers. But they seem to be coming together nicely. Monday night we went out to my parent’s house to go couch shopping and so that I could fix my mom’s computer. Her iMac died when the power went out… so I had low hopes and I think I am correct, I can’t get the machine to boot AT ALL. I will try tonight to see if I can recover the files on the hard drive. Fingers crossed.

We did find a couch and my parents threw in some money and it will be delivered tomorrow. I am excited because we NEED a couch in that room. Or something to sit on. I am of course grateful that my parents helped out, although I feel a bit… not sure of the word… extremely grateful… not uncomfortable per se… but anyway. It rules though!

But between early saturday morning, early sunday morning, being in the sun all sunday, early monday morning, shopping and computer stuff monday night, I crashed come tuesday after work.

We ordered pizza hut. Pizza hut is one of those things that I THINK I want… and I think, man, I haven’t had pizza hut in a while. So we get it. and I eat it. And I remember that I don’t like it that much. But oh well. We ordered online and ordered the new twisty bread bread stick crust thing that they have been advertising the hell out of… only to have them call me after the order and tell me they don’t have it, since it was promotional. I am not sure if it is too early, or too late, but it seemed odd. Whatever I guess. The guy that delivered it was in a Lincoln Towncar. It was kinda odd. He also spoke in a such a way that you would think a MadTV or SNL sketch comedy person would talk in. It was odd. His name badge said “team manager”. weirdo.

So the couch is coming tomorrow… and I am getting mom a new computer tonight (eMac)…

is that a good enough post robs?

so after a LONG LONG weekend, we moved. I finished the floor on the main floor on saturday night, and moved all the big furniture on sunday. Thanks to my dad and brother for helping me with the move. I rented a pickup truck from uhaul for the day, $30, and moved the bed, couches, etc. The red couch didn’t make it up the stairs, so we need a new couch for the living room, but overall, I am happy.

We slept there for the first time last night and it is a nice feeling. Now we get to unpack, buy more crap, etc.

Work and more work, but the living room/dining room combo are done. Done. Hardwood, glorious hardwood. I am excited. It looks very nice. Big props to michael as well as rebecca’s parents and bob for helping. The plan is to get a bit more work done this week, finish the kitchen on saturday, and move in on sunday.

I hope to be posting soon about how I am moved in and sleeping there…

working on your own house is weird. It is both strangely more fun than working on someone else’s house, but still annoying after a while. I worked on the house all weekend… albeit a bit overwhelming at first, I got the prep work done and started laying hardwood by sunday afternoon. Michael was a big help. We only got about 3×3 feet done, but it looks great.

It will be SUPER nice when it is all done…