The bathtub refused to drain…so we had to get a plumber with a camera…turned out the terracotta was crumbling about 2 feet away from the house.

We had signed up for a supplemental insurance policy, but there was about 5 more days until it was ‘active’…so we abandoned ship…kinda

While this was being worked on, we packed up the dogs and headed over to stay with Aunt San’s and then I would come back home during the day and work from home and then head back over (didn’t want to overwhelm aunt san too much)…Jen spent a couple days with the parents in State College while this work was being done…

I have been going through alot of paperwork trying to get my tax info together and realized some of the things we’ve done around here that I had completely forgot about.

The first thing I did when I bought the house was gutting the bathroom. The only things that I didn’t replace were the toilet and the tub. When I ripped out the wall behind the tub, I found there was a stained glass window enclosed in the wall. That is the point where I realized that at some point that was the exterior of the house and they had added on to the kitchen. The other thing that stood out was when I removed the dry-wall from behind the sink, there were enough razor blades to fill a shoe box…It was crazy…and rusty…and gross. I wish I had taken a picture of that. I ay have some picture of the bathroom gut, but I won’t try to find them now.

I replaced the outside front door, the inside front door and the outside back door. I may have pictures of that too…That was done by Dan Crawford (DCraw Construction), the same guy that added the steps to the attic and the back deck.

I may need to review the blog to see if I ever added the deck build and the shed build. But I’m sure that there were other things that I forgot…we shall see.

Two 27″ screen Monitors, a new red backlit mechanical keyboard

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It’s only Sunday…we have until Tuesday morning to empty the 3 rooms…but we also need to work Monday (and I am on-call, until Tuesday morning)…so today, we need to move as much as we can. I have already moved mostly everything that is not critical…especially the bedroom, since we painted it last weekend and left everything out knowing that if we moved it back in, we would need to move it all back out again.

Leaving everything out sounded like a good idea, but it made for a tense week…I don’t like clutter…and having everything crammed in to every corner/open space in the living room made everything feel like chaos and confinement.

Jen has off on Tuesday to help deal with any chaos or last minute moves. Home Depot installing company has a standard furniture move but what they really mean is, empty all of the dressers, take the bed frame down, 4′ from the floor access to the floor in the closets.

Our dressers don’t easily let go of the drawers, so removing the drawers and moving them doesn’t work…and if we were to empty the drawers into boxes or bags, now we have to find room to put them as well as the ‘furniture’…they will charge $75 to take the bed apart, but move the taken down bed for free as part of the standard package. If I take apart the bed, then I also need to move the mattress, box spring and frame to do that…so I call BULLSHIT!

Yesterday, we stopped at PetKraze to get a stuffed animal for Raz…I have never seen a dog get SO happy when she sees a stuffed animal…or the saddest when it’s not for her. But anyway…there is stuffed animal inners and carcass all over the living room, that should be a fun clean up!

Just did a walk through with Jen on what’s going where…and my biggest project of the day will be running and making an ethernet cable so I can put my PC anywhere and it not be in the way.

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I got the call for the install first thing…they said’ how about Tuesday the 26th…and in my head, that was within 7 days, so I said, sounds good to me, go ahead and schedule it!

I started moving furniture out of the rooms (the bedroom first, since we are painting it tomorrow…

When I told Jen that it would be on the 26th is when I had the ‘oh shit’ moment and realized that was more like 10 days away. 2 weekends to prepare.

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Jen is in the middle of a project and has very little time to be farting around with Rapid Install, so I had to corner her to pick a color for the bedroom. We really thought we had 3 weeks to do this at our own pace…and now it’s happening in a couple days. Sister’s Painting to the rescue! BobbieAnn told me to go to SherwinWilliams webpage, pick a color and she would grab a gallon…and if we needed a second one, we could do a paint run during the day. Vast Sky…this is the color we are going with!