A few months back, when I first started at my new job, my new coworkers– by way of subtle hints and overheard conversations — got me into this game called Minecraft. Right now? It’s late in the evening as I write this, and rather than stress myself and my fingers trying to explain the game and its addictive properties in my own words, I include the following excerpt from the latest iteration of Wikipedia’s entry on Minecraft: The core gameplay revolves around construction. The game world is essentially made up of cubical blocks arranged in a fixed grid pattern, that represent different materials, such as, dirt, stone, various ores, water, tree trunks, etc. While the players can move freely across the world, objects and items [...]
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I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Between running, working, and those other little things that come up… well, y’know… This quasi-drought it killing my garden. It sucks. Sure, I can pump water on it all day long, but the moisture bakes out of the soil in less than a day anyways. Some of the plants are doing okay — after they get established, they flourish because they can get their roots down deep enough — but the seedlings are slow and suffering. If I get even a dozen carrots out of the patch this year, I’ll be surprised. I spent a couple hours building Claire a sandbox the other day. We had looked at a couple of the plastic doo-dahs, but I figured it [...]
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I hesitate to write the word “complete” but really… apart from a small handful of cosmetic add-ons and adjustments, the basement is complete. Sure, there are no shelves in the closet, the bathroom is still lacking a mirror, we haven’t even considered drapery, and of course there is the matter of the one or two baseboards desperately seeking nails but in general — at least in the sense that I can sit in this space at a desk, with a computer, light, heat, and a glass of red wine — it is done. And we moved stuff down this weekend. Not much. A start, really. But enough to say that we live down here now and are not just holding it for some later date [...]
The city permit guy just left and in his wake is the end of the basement inspections. Other than actually finishing the installation of carpet and baseboards, we are set to move-in. Bam! Kosher construction. Oh, and don’t forget to vote in the photo contest — scroll down — as there is only a couple days left.
Thanks to the cold, cold weather I’ve managed to find plenty of quality time with the basement renovations. Now that the process is merely one of finishing work, I (and others) have been able to accomplish: Laminate Flooring in the new office, a hundred and fifty square feet of manufactured wood planks snapped together into a faux-naturelle play area for Claire, who has taken to parking in front of the little TV and carting stray construction refuse. One Closet Door in the aforementioned office, consisting of no more than twelve screws and yet to be painted. It has served well to hide our mess, carried back downstairs for tomorrow’s impending (final) holiday gathering. Two Light Fixtures lugged home by Karin after brief shopping excursions, one [...]
A year ago today the folks drove up from Red Deer to help with the frantic fencing bee. We spent a chilly morning and afternoon slathering green paint across a few hundred fence boards promptly followed by a lot of pounding nails that eventually led to the the bulk of the back and side fence being built. Yesterday, upon returning from a quick trip to Red Deer, we enjoyed a little more casual spring preparation. Nearly all of the snow melted, I spent some time pulling furniture and garden-bits from their winter storage in the shed. I hauled out the mower and got it running, mowing up the clumps of shredded grass left behind from the winter mice. I raked a good chunk of the [...]
