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Moving Day
So, the Pearce Family House Shuffle is a definite Go, and Moving Day (plural, actually) is set ( Read more... ) -
100 Movies to See before You Die
Apparently Yahoo.com posted this list of films you "must" see before you die. Attached is the list, with the ones I've seen underlined. (64, if you're keeping count).
Which ones have you seen? Which ones do you think they missed? Which ones on the list baffled you? (Fast Times at Ridgemont High?)
12 Angry Men (1957)
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Yesterday was an exhausting but extremely fulfilling day. After an all-too-brief morning lie-in and fortified by a good breakfast. it was an all-out attack on the Coleridge house. My area of interest was the basement and, after dealing with a small fraction of the Dust of Ages that seems to infest all basements, I went to Home Despot and bought a ( Read more... ) -
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It's weird, seeing the home of my youth transformed. Okay, not majorly majorly transformed, but enough. It felt strange seeing most of the rooms empty last night, patches of off-colored cork let into the floors where I'd chiseled out tiles deformed by furniture or footsteps over the years. (Decades - the cork is original to the 1920's when the ( Read more... ) -
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The end on this thing is in sight - it's a strange feeling after all the Sisyphusian (Google it) back-and-forthing, but we're really hitting the point in the project where you look at what you've accomplished and say "Looks good" and you look at what still needs to be done and say "Wait a second, didn't our renter say she likes to paint?" and drop ( Read more... ) -
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The hall was painted in a single go last night, along with the bookshelves. I'll re-hang those tonight, reinstall hardware and stuff in the front bedroom, and then we'll turn our attention to the back bedroom ( Read more... ) -
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Progress Report
Wednesday night:- bought hardware for bathroom (can't find a brass doorknob escutcheon at the local - just ugly pre-assembled locksets...)
- bought paint for Front Bedroom
- sanded door-frames and part of laast window frame
- patched holes in the walls caused by scraping loose paint
The plan for Thursday night:- take down venetian ( Read more... )
- bought hardware for bathroom (can't find a brass doorknob escutcheon at the local - just ugly pre-assembled locksets...)
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Tuesday Night:
Bathroom- Installed all the hardware I could find (make a hardware shopping list)
- Final touch-up
Front Bedroom- Scraped walls free of loose paint, plaster
- Scraped loose wallpaper/paint from closet
- Sanded window frames on front windows
Ilsa & I put in 3 solid hours (6 Man-hours). Painting is tough enough - prep work is a bitch! - Installed all the hardware I could find (make a hardware shopping list)
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I've reached crunch time on the Coleridge house - there's a long weighty list of crap that desperately needs to be finished, and my siblings and I are down to approximately one month. My brother-in-law took a spill and ended up in the ER at the end of last week, so my sister couldn't come up from Pittsburgh, and Howard left Sunday for two weeks at ( Read more... )