For someone who has problems getting around and has to work on anything that involves standing or exertion on a 15 minute on/15 minute off work cycle, I seem to have quite a few irons in the fire. The door project spawned several concurrent sub-projects, which was actually planned for the most part. What wasn't necessarily planned was how many sub- ( Read more... )

I've been scarce around these parts. I've been preoccupied with a lot of different things lately. When I last left LJ-land, I had posted how I had finally brought my new front door home after weeks of waiting for it to be built and shipped. I was anxious to start the installation, but rather than putting on my tool belt and kicking butt, instead we ( Read more... )

Finally. After postponing this for years due to health issues, money issues, time issues, timing issues or just plain procrastination, I finally ordered up a new front door for La Casa Mayhem, and I picked it up today. I had to convince the people at Homo Despot that I had a nice big truck, and the wonderful shipping pallet it was delivered to the ( Read more... )

Good news! I found my wallet. Bad news, I lost my beard. Well, a good bit of it, at least ( Read more... )

The repair guy from G.E. came by to perform the warranty work on my GeoSpring heat pump-based water heater. He was not the same guy that showed up a couple weeks ago, I figured he chickened out, and from what the guy (his name is Bruce) told me, I was right. That makes two correct diagnoses regarding this repair, the first finding a leaky ( Read more... )

This was a relatively productive weekend. I finished the installation of the new garage door opener and door monitoring systems. They work very well, and the new opener is eerily silent compared to the old one. Tonight I picked up a matching unit to replace the remaining unit, I will do that during my time off after Xmas. I just have to figure out ( Read more... )