Wow what a week…

On the kitchen wall front. I got the mudding done and sanded and got them primed and ready for painting. The ceiling has been primed with killz and is waiting for paint. I won’t have time to finish the painting before my parents show up tonight(I think). I did brush on a patch of the wall color so the can see what it looks like.

Carolyn’s dad is doing better and is back to his usual self. Drove Carolyn and Avery to the hospital to visit him last night. It’s a nice area right down the street form one of my old alma matters Newtown Friends School.

My parents hit town tonight and are staying at my aunts house, but I am sure they will be at our house most of the time.

Avery is starting to get a little nervous about going to Bath for the month of August. Carolyn and I are looking forward to it though…this way Carolyn can get some painting done and we can get the kitchen done and maybe get her office started.

Not much going on at work. Looking forward to the picnic on Sat. and just having a break from computers for a day.

Took last night off from dry wall work. Spent Monday night mudding and taping since Carolyn and Charlotte were at the hospital with there dad. I got all the screws covered and all the seams taped.

Tuesday I wet sanded all and applied the second coat of mud and screwed up the inside corner. I hope to get it finished tonight. I took last night off to go food shopping and just take it easy. Finally got around to getting the web based mailing list manager up and running for the La Vigna mailing list, now Dean will be able to add and subtract people.

Carolyn’s father did suffer a stroke over the weekend, but is doing better. They are planning on moving him up to the rehabilitation floor today or tomorrow. He has lost a little of his vision in his left eye and now his good hand shakes a little more. The doctors think with rehab they can get him back to where he was physically before the stroke.

Well tomorrow is my birthday and again no party…maybe next year it will happen.

Back to New York today. I hope to be there only for about an hour. The computer in question is getting a lot of “Performed an Illegal Operation” when the user tries to print from IE and Office. I am taking a page from Simon over at www.bofhcam.org and just reghosting it with the image I made last year.

Spent the weekend working on the kitchen. I pulled off the paneling on Saturday morning then spent most of the afternoon filling the voids and holes with srtuctolite. I love that stuff, hardens in like 20 min after application to the wall and is rock hard. Spent Saturday evening hanging out with Avery watching TV and playing, after we went to see the paint guy Al at Sears to get the paint for the kitchen.

Charlotte came down and took Carolyn over to there Dads. When they got there things were not good and they had to cancel there big dinner out to the Washington Crossing Inn. Sunday wasn’t that much better for them…

I conned my cousin John into getting up early and taking me to Home Depot to pick up the sheet rock (dry wall) and other things. I was back by 9:30 and couldn’t talk him into helping me hang it. It took me about 7 hours to hang 7 pieces. I also had to re-frame the old door way to the Basement and so there were some studs to attach the dry all to next to the fridge. I think it all ready looks better.

I will mud and tape tonight. I hope to have it all done by Thursday so I can prime the walls, Killz and Paint the ceiling on Friday (my birthday) and then paint the walls on Saturday.

Wow what a day at Six Flags Great Adventure. We got to the park around 11:30 and headed right to Nitro. We rode Nitro 3 times then headed to the Batman Ride ended up riding it only once.

We never made it onto the Batman & Robin Chiller due to a long line and a break down. We made it across the park to Medusa the second best ride for us at the park yesterday.

Over all the day was good and fast. We enjoyed the rides and kept looking for Mike Foley since he was at the park to sign autographs.

Today has been non stop work. As is every day back in the office after a day off.

Big hello to Nancy at work who actually admitted to reading this journal….

Temperature finally drop to a more bearable temp fro everyone at home.

Been working on getting the plans together for the new mail server. I decided to buy an Adaptec Raid controller an another drive taking my drive count to 4. So at 36 GB a piece and losing the last drive to parity I will get a whopping 108 GBS of space. That should be okay for this server. It will be hosting the Web,Ftp and Mail server on it.

I hope to get started on taking the paneling down in the kitchen tonight so I can put up the drywall on Sat.

I have tomorrow off to go to Six Flags Great Adventure with Henry, Tika, Steve Roco, John Allen and his kids. I just want to ride the roller coasters and skip the water park so I am going to end up on my own for a while.

Have to go back to the New York office next week because one of the Compaq’s I switched to one of the people up there is already screwed up. I am just going to re ghost it with the original image I made last summer. If that doesn’t fix it then the user is a jinx…..