Category Archives: Home

This morning I’m working at home with the laptop, sitting on the couch with the computer and cats keeping me warm. We don’t give the cats enough friendly attention. They’re overly affectionate when they get the chance, and it’s not helping my typing. I welcome the warmth though, while it’s sunny outside, it’s cold enough [...]

We have several plans to update our home, and are unfortunately slow to move on all of them. This is exacerbated by our ability to add new things to do to The List without actually working on things already there. A few weekends ago while I was procrastinating a project for work, we found ourselves [...]

For the past two and a half days, I’ve remained horizontal at home to let my back heal after straining/spraining/pulling something. Based on the decreased pain and my increased mobility, it’s likely just a pulled muscle that required the last few days to heal. The current ache is a reminder to take it easy, which [...]

Yesterday Nick came over and we successfully jacked out the eyesore clothesline poles in the middle of the backyard. This was months after my failed lawn tractor/pulley extraction attempt. Where the poles were, there are now rock filled holes. Where my back muscles were, there is pain. The immobilizing spazming kind. I’m in bed today, [...]

The mailman delivered the last 1099 form I needed today, which means I’m also done filing our taxes this year. “do a little dance!” Let me endorse TurboTax Online. Armed with the requisite tax forms sent to me in the mail, I quickly transferred paper details, reviewed calculations, saved a backup pdf, and filed both [...]

Suggestions from my encouraging wife: put up the light outside go to home depot and get glidden paint samples for the living room, the cabinets, the bathroom rip off the walls/tile in our bathroom to see what’s underneath and/or motivate us to fix everything call your dad over and come up with a front porch [...]

Last night I found motivation, if only for the sake of doing something, and found I can be pretty productive, though sometimes absent-minded. Replaced porch light. The original light was installed by the previous owners, and suffered from rust, an ugly style, and missing the bulb canopy. Nothing screams class like an exposed bulb on [...]