Our Dining Room has barely been touched in the nine years since we've painted it aside from the occasional touch up. Now that the kitchen renovation work is done, it is in need of some love. We aren't changing the color, but the walls need cleaned, the trim and ceiling need completely repainted. We were a …
Review: Kohler K-596-VS Simplice Faucet
A kitchen sink isn't any good without a faucet so we decided to get one! We were initially looking at touchless faucets because they can maintain temperature with the water off. I've been looking for this feature because I often wash large and fragile dishes in the sink and want to turn off water while …
My Transatlantic Obsession
I became interested in the Titanic while doing a book report in fourth grade. I went to the library and found several book including a large hard cover volume titled Titanic: An Illustrated History. It was the largest and most interesting book I found, full of images and beautiful paintings of the ship's construction, appointments, …
Farewell Holly, My “Big Girl”
Holly, my "big girl", left us today to bark with Hannah in the doggy afterlife. "Big" was a relative term to distinguish her from Hannah as neither were larger than our cat. The last three years have been equal parts wonderful and difficult, but we made the most out of them. After Hannah's passing and …
Ninety Percent There
We reached a major milestone on Friday with the installation of our microwave and stove – we have a functioning kitchen! We don't have door pulls for the bottom cabinets, still need a small heater, and need matched wood in the dining room, but we have everything else. We were able to cook on the …
Closing In on the Kitchen
We are wrapping up eight weeks into our kitchen renovation and it is finally starting to come to a close. This was our fifth week without access to a real kitchen and we are getting more anxious by the day to have it back. Luckily significant progress has been made and we're nearing the end. …
Mac Museum Latest Additions: Lime iBook G3
The tag line for the iBook was iMac to Go, a theme made very clear by the first-generation model introduced in July 1999. The iBook uses the same colorful translucent plastic as the iMac and had the same consumer-focused ambitions in a notebook form. Initial models came in Tangerine (Orange) and Blueberry (Light Blue) "flavors" but changed …
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Our Kitchen Remodel is Underway
After nearly 10 years in our house, we are finally remodeling our kitchen. It was a big upgrade from our previous house, offering more counter space, more cabinetry, and better materials. We traded laminate counter for solid Corian with and integrated sink, eighties particle board veneer cabinets for solid wood with lighting, and linoleum flooring …
Tinkering with an Apple IIc
My Mac Museum is mostly Macs but I do branch out a bit in certain areas. I have a pretty good collection of iPods, a solid collection of Palm Pilots, and even a couple of Apple II's. One of them is an Apple IIc that I bought a couple of years ago. I really like …
Time to Upgrade My RAID
I have a lot of photos, about 40,000, most in RAW format. They take up a lot of space and are very important to me so I've invested a fair amount in storage to protect them. About 8 years ago I bought an external RAID array and two 2TB hard drives. I set the array …
Relatively Ambitious 