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03
May

The start of the floors

So Nicole moved everything out of her room and started to pull up the carpet. I finished removing the carpet when I got home. The floors underneath look to be in pretty good shape overall. We still need to remove the carpet tack strips though. Hopefully tonight I’ll get to the ceiling light in the […]


25
Apr

Star Wars tickets!

I don’t know if anyone reading this cares, but Star Wars tickets are on sale. I have mine for all day on the 19th of May on Screen 4 at the Santa Cruz Cinema 9. Join me! Hold a place in line for me for between shows!


25
Apr

Adobe Premiere works now

I finally had a change to ask the internet about the “Adobe Premiere could not grab a frame buffer error” I wou;d get when trying to render the movie to a DVD format. It was frustrating because it woul dbe working and then stop. Well I found there is an up date to fix that […]


14
Apr

Dar’s room is done

With the painting that is. Nicole and and I finished the second coat last night. This morning I cleared out all the stuff on the floor of the room so the carpet guys have no obstructions when they arrive sometime this morning. Hopefully the paint and carpet don’t clash. Oh yeah. Sill have to do […]


28
Mar

The office is back together

At least for now we are done with the office. The floor is still unpainted concrete but it’s nicer looking and functional again. Later we’ll pull everything out again and put in a floating floor. There was an article in This Old House that made it look pretty easy. It’s also been re-arranged to make […]


21
Mar

Sometimes there is a mess (part 2)

Sunday we decided that would need to rip out all the moldy smelly carpet, which means we need to pull out everythign in the room. While everything is out it’s the perfect opportunity to paint the room something that isn’t yellow. We went to OSH and picked out some paint and ran other errands before […]


21
Mar

Sometimes there is a mess

On Friday afternoon a wet spot was on the floor of the computer room. At first it was thought that one of the dogs had peed in protest since the other one did so earlier in the day. But that night we saw the wet spot grew. Then we saw that the carpet was wet elsewhere and that various paper things on the floor had absorbed a lot of water.


15
Mar

Recording Star Wars

I own the original (pre-special edition) Star Wars movies on laser disc. These are the remastered and cleaned up ones done by Lucasfilm in the early 90s. I have a goal of being able to record these to my hard drive and then to a dvd. Along the way, I’ve upgraded my capture card to […]

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