We had an excellent pirate housewarming party! I'm sooo happy that the basement got finished to a usable state. Despite the fact that it was supposed to be DONE except for carpeting 3 days before the party, they're still working on it. I use the term "working" in the sense that they occasionally send a guy over, and that they still aren't done yet ( Read more... )

( Chinese New Year's Eve Party, Feb 17th! )

My weekend was mostly good, marred only by needing to help move my mother in law, who has been packing theoretically for almost two months, and who had SOOO many things still to pack. I mean fer the love of evil, she's got a one-bedroom apartment, you'd think she could at LEAST have had her shelves of books and paints and CDs packed. *sigh* So ( Read more... )

We had our garage sale this weekend. A LOT of work went into setting it up, I dunno how people do this more than once a year. We had good weather for most of it, and had a LOT of traffic on Saturday - we only brought in 1/3rd of Saturday's income on Sunday. Mostly it was the books and electronics that were moving I think, along with some clothes ( Read more... )

Thursday was the usual fun crowd at our place for board games, we played Filthy Rich and Carcassone. I thought i was dead last in Carcassone, but judicious use of farming brought me back up to the middle of the pack, woohoo ( Read more... )

According to deusinnomen, the motherboard/CPU is overheating. Isn't this problem what I BOUGHT this damn motherboard/CPU to correct in the first place? ...I'm about ready to chuck the whole thing and buy a new one. Hell, I almost have, but if I were intending to buy a new computer I'd have picked up a PCI-E vidcard instead of the AGP I did get, which is a ( Read more... )

Got the Internet set up this weekend, finally! YAY! Of course ladysilverlark has a wireless card instead of a regular network card, and they're having issues getting the wireless router to play nice with her laptop, but I hardly consider that to be a fault on my part, I got the cable run to her basement nook, along with a cable feed. I don't do wireless until ( Read more... )

So Noel gets my desk (which used to be Jeff's desk), Kat gets Noel's desk, Tracy gets Kat's desk, and I got this desk. Currently thanks to a lot of help from kittykatkatja it's half-assembled (the difficult half), with the rest of the desk scattered through the office. Yes folks, we didn't have enough furniture. *Grin* I MIGHT have time to finish assembling ( Read more... )

The living room is still a cluttered mess. The kitchen is nearly done, the library is coming together nicely, and the office finally has a plan and should be together very soon. Unfortunately, we have no cable yet (and thus no internet), as the installer said he couldn't use ComCast's cables and needed to run a new line from the box... which is ( Read more... )

We made it, thanks SO much to those who helped out, especially George, trollbrian, andromeda77, deusinnomen and aimee_darling. awibs, hawkshadow, Mike and Rob were also a great help. trollbrian and hawkshadow also get major props for helping us prepare for the move during the week, it made a huge difference ( Read more... )