We’re doing some renovation/fix up before moving and have a number of miscellaneous things needed doing around the house.  Does anyone have any recommendations for someone to-

Replace rotten outside timber, fix a hole in a plasterboard  wall and replace broken windows?

Preferably on the northside.

Saw the movie the other day with my brother - better than I expected, very much like the first Predator movie.

In other news- I'll be at home all this morning as we've got an electrician coming over to install our new stove. An electric ceramic top.

Was going to play Metascape on Wed night, but realised I'd previously got tickets to a movie with my brother - whom I see rarely these days. Possibly next Wednesday for that instead ( Read more... )

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Rather than overload the section at work with a request to extract data from our database, I wrote a nifty little program to do it for me, and left it running overnight ( Read more... )

Finally getting close to completing the spare room. Last weekend we emptied it out. Today we took all the really damaging velcro patches off the wall, cleaned the glue off, washed the walls and spack filled any large dints. Tomorrow we undercoat ( Read more... )

Was sick on Thursday & Friday, however managed to get things done on the weekend ( Read more... )

Saturday -
Move stuff out of bedroom, rip up carpets, edging, underlay. Remove nails and staples, flatten protruding nails.
Move stuff back into bedroom

Sunday -
Originally planned to go boardgaming in the afternoon. Went with alternative of curling up in bed in dark with flu and migraine

Monday -
Box things and move things about at kaffles house and ( Read more... )

Masking taped the spare room (or as I refer to it - the DVD room) on Saturday, then kaffles and I undercoated it with some old paint she had at her place. It'll need another undercoat before we put a cream colour on it (it was previously a light green ( Read more... )

Sick friday - flu thingy. Stayed home and did not much.

Saturday we went to Saffron in Manuka. Interestingly the first 8 pages of their 10 page menu are all about alcohol they serve. Not a priority with me.
Still - while not cheap, the banquet was quite nice. Turkish and Lebanese food. We ate with friends of kaffles who told us they have now set a ( Read more... )