October 2005 - Posts
My motivation is missing this morning. If you see it, please send it my way - I need it to get started on a list of projects. Until it shows up, I'll be stuck in this chair drinking coffee and surfing the Internets. Seriously, the list is long. I could
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This article was on the front page today of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. I love the poem at the head of the article: "Farewell O Little Bungalow, A victim of pure greed. In your place a Bellevue Mega-Home Will rise up like a weed. A monument to arrogance,
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Those were my words when we were just two boards from completing the installation of the fir flooring. Last weekend we cleaned up all the boards. This included scraping all the layers of junk off the side of the boards, then sanding and cleaning out the
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It isn’t very often that I get angry or upset. Even more rarely will I lose my cool. All in all I’m a pretty level-headed guy – I don’t require much to remain happy. Trissa even likes to call me “LMN”, for “Low Maintenance Nick.” But if you pound a nail
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Okay- there's a lot of "should do's" on my list right now, but I'm still adjusting to being back to teaching and not having enough energy to work on the house at the end of the day. Today's should do" is in the front of my brain after reading Jocelyn's
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I was out of town for a few days this last weekend having a great time with some long-time pals. We all met up in Las Vegas and from there drove to the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon. It was lots of fun! (And I won $15) Of course not much got done on
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