I planned to bring my motorcycle to my stepdad's shop to clean the carburetor but it turns out the battery is dead and is not starting the engine.

After a few hours of dissecting and reassembling the damn thing, I just said screw trying to charge the old battery and bought a new one off eBay.

I just got done with the bifold closet doors in my house. I went over to Home Depot and bought 3 pairs to install. It turns out the den doors were a little too big for the opening (giggity) so I had to use my circular saw to cut 'em to size. They don't look too bad covered in primer and painted over.

Yep, another weekend job all done!

Last night the drip pan connected to my air conditioning unit overflowed. I noticed this because the water that was in the pan made its way to one of the long usb cords that I ran for my security system and effectively killed it. I was not pleased at all ( Read more... )

I refinanced my loan on my house recently. This was a big step but I am glad it's taken care of finally.

Now just to pay it off for the next 30 years...

As it turns out, my new kitty had a respiratory infection. I had to take him to the vet yesterday and they gave him a shot and a bunch of medicine for him to take daily until this thing heals up. I am to give him an antibiotic orally twice a day, eye drops to help his eye get better, and ear drops to help his ear ( Read more... )

My mom saw an article in the paper today. The humane society is giving away free cats and kittens for Mother's Day if I brought my mother to the shelter. About 30 minutes later we both walked out with an adorable baby kitty!

I haven't figured out what to call him but I'm working on that... and I will get some pictures up later.

My friend and I did a ton of work to the house this weekend ( Read more... )

Now that Spring has started, I have decided to start working on several of the various projects that need to be done around the house ( Read more... )

My water softener stopped working a few weeks ago. It took me a while to figure out it wasn't working because I never really understood how they work ( Read more... )

I've been working on creating a security system for my house in my spare time. So far, I am using a rather interesting design based on how the profession grade monitoring alarms work. In addition to not having to pay a monthly fee for the monitoring, my system features some cool stuff like duress key codes and automatic motion detection and ( Read more... )