Nursery update

The drywall is all up and painting has begun.  I’ve also started to hang the new door.  So far I have the new door jamb in and found that I had measured a little too tight and had to shave off 1/2″ off the door itself to make sure I had room to fit the door as well as shim it to the right spacing etc.  What a pain!

It’s coming along though.

We’re also getting ready to install the chimney for our new wood stove this weekend.  While prepping I found that the Amesti N380 we bought in March won’t fit our tight clearances.  So now we need to return that and we are buying an Englander 17-VL.  Surprise, surprise, my gut instinct was right.  Also of note, the Made in USA stove works and the Made in Argentina one doesn’t.  I will say that the Amesti did seem very well made for the pricepoint, however, I will never know as we never did get to fire it up :-/

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Technology prices

It’s weird that today I just gave away a Powermac Dual G5 almost identical to the one I bought in college for $1,500 as a REFURB (would have been $1,800 new at the time).  Talk about a price drop in technology!

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Words out of context

Me to my wife this morning, “You know what you need?  A tomato launcher!”

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Yay, the Focus is fixed!

We finally got the car into Dave’s so they could replace the sway bar end links and driver’s side hub.  Now the car is finally quiet again!  What a joy to drive!  It seems silly, but all that noise and whatnot made the car seem like a $500 beater, now it feels like the $5,000 used car that it is.

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If I decide to go a little higher end

In a world where I had more money and wanted to go a little higher end with a bike, I would totally get a Ducati Monster 696 or BMW F800R.

Good times and great mpg.

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