January – 2007 – Got the Jimmy Legs

Monthly Archives: January 2007

To my tribe that flows in layers

4th Floor Unrefinished, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. I had Friday and Monday off from work. Sounds like a relaxing 4-day weekend! However, the opposite is true, it was a near-constant tumult of rental vans, heavy equipment, runs to the hardware store, and fitful sleep the entire time. Our friend kept saying that refinishing our […]

You mixed your roses with your cabbages

I'm taking the day off tomorrow! Actually, I'm taking every Friday in January off. My boss was kind enough to let me use my 2006 vacation days in 2007, they're not supposed to carry over. I gotta plan better this year to use these days. After 6 years of having no kind of time off […]

Just a victim of circumstance

The other night we were enjoying a lovely evening out at the Wreck Room, which is pretty much the bar closest to our house. This kind of sucks, since I'm used to years of strolling over to the Alibi whenever I felt like it (and more recently, to Sputnik which was even closer). But southern […]

Pegboy

Kitchen Floor Sealed Originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. We've got our kitchen back, more or less. The varnish is supposed to cure for a long while before you can really treat it like a floor, but at least we're not all crowded into the living room. This project has been a good learning experience, I […]

This diamond ring doesn't shine for me anymore

I'm trying to dig up some info about my house, specifically when it was built. See, there was some kind of fire or something that destroyed most of the property records in Brooklyn around the turn of the 19th century, so many houses have estimated construction dates. My house was supposedly built in 1915, which […]