January 11, 2007 – 11:28 am
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 […]
January 9, 2007 – 11:40 am
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 […]
January 8, 2007 – 4:13 pm
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 […]
January 3, 2007 – 1:54 pm
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 […]
January 2, 2007 – 3:57 pm
Bob Vila, eat your heart out At the risk of sounding like a one-note blog, I'm getting frustrated with my kitchen floor. We set about painting it a few days ago (patch, prime, paint, poly) and I thought we'd be all done by now. However, I neglected to read the full set of instructions in […]
