~Tuesday~   It was a little rainy today, so not too much happened, but the removal of the deck was completed with the exception of one little section.

Porch, deck, and foundation gone

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~Monday~   The dumpster was emptied today and demolition work continued on removing the rest of the porch out back.

Our first dumpster emptying

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~Thursday~  Welcome to the latest update and thanks for your interest in following along with our remodeling and addition adventure ( Read more... )

~Tuesday~  Bob and I are about to start an adventure. We're remodeling some of our existing house and putting on an addition ( Read more... )

~Sunday~ Bob and I are both huge fans of Maggie Smith and have been waiting for The Lady in the Van to become available to us on Netflix.

We recently finished the final season of Downton Abbey, during whose run we enjoyed many, many witty, snarky, and meme-worthy quips of The Dowager Countess, for which we gratefully thank Dame Smith.


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~Tuesday~ Tonight I attended one of the 10 preliminary rounds of the North Carolina's Funniest amateur stand-up comedy contest at Goodnight's Comedy Club in Raleigh.

This was an out-of-my-comfort-zone outing, but I wanted to support my colleague and friend, Matt Morain, whom I happen to think is a very, very intelligent-funny person.

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~Sunday~ In March of this year, I went to the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas, where the closing keynote speaker was none other than Andy Weir, the author of the book, The MartianWhen describing the publication history of the book, he mentioned that at one time it was available for download for $.99 on Amazon.com, and during the Q&A ( Read more... )

~Sunday~ I found the title of this movie saved in my iPhone "Notes" file, which means someone I was talking to-at some time, somewhere-recommended it. I thought it was my friend Todd, but he said it wasn't him ( Read more... )

~Wednesday~ I'm not a fan of sci-fi, so it's an anomaly that I watched this film. Bob had paid-which is also an anomaly-to stream it from Netflix, and since we had access to it for several days, I went ahead and watched it, too ( Read more... )

Skis, bindings, boots, and poles
I only used these for one season, before I gave up skiing. They're in excellent condition.
$200
I'd rather sell the entire set together, so if you do buy the entire set, I'll throw in the
gloves, goggles, boot bag, and ski bag free.
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