When Iris and I moved in together I packed my clothes, laptop, and xbox (the necessities), and moved into her condo. After a month we decided we were able to tolerate each other so we prepared to list my condo for sale. I packed up the little extra’s I wanted, and we put a chunk …
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The Fiddling Little Bits
We’ve been working on the house since we were given the keys on February 20th. Demolition and preparations for the painters and carpet layers, and then installing the hardwood ourselves, we are pretty much ready to move in for April 5th. I would say we are about 99% done. We still need to finish sealing …
Disney Day 6 – Winding Down
The NASA tour we booked included an airboat ride and we met back at the bus for the 45 minute trip inland to a location that would make a great stereotype for “the south”. After a quick safety lesson (don’t stick your hand out over the water or you could lose it) we were herded …
NASA Day 5 – Dave Gets Emo
This was the big day for me, I’m a huge space buff and the NASA tour meant a lot. The trip to Kennedy took 90 minutes and the tour guide kept us entertained with cheesy jokes and videos of the Center and it’s history. I was feeling pretty rough on the ride out, the cold …
Disney Day 4 – Magic Kingdom Take 2
I woke up this morning feeling crappy and it was apparent that I had caught a cold on the flight down. I had a scratchy throat in Animal Kingdom but I had assumed it was from screaming on the coasters. I was wrong. To be honest, if you need to be sick with a cold …
Disney Day 2 – The 16 Hour Day
Our goal was exploring most of the Magic Kingdom. We’d been told that early December is a quiet time so we were a little surprised by how this day ended up. There’s a Starbucks on the grounds that we planned as our first stop but just like the day before walking through the main gates …
Disney Day 1 – The Little Mermaid is Cool
Something we quickly learned about Disney World: It’s huge. I mean it; it’s really, really big. Douglas Adams describing the Universe doesn’t touch the scale of Disney World (ok, maybe not, but damn it’s big). They have an internal bus system that connects all the parks, resorts, and other attractions so making our way to …
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Disney – Magical Preparation
I had no idea what to expect. The enthusiasm Iris had wasn’t rubbing off on me because, really, I had no idea what to expect. Not to say I wasn’t excited for the trip, but without knowing what I was going into I didn’t feel the same thrill she obviously did. To me Disney was …
The Last Place I Looked
I aggravated an old wrist injury on the weekend pulling up the carpet and yanking out staples. At first it wasn’t that bad but as the week has gone on it has gotten steadily worse. As we were eating tonight and finding that just holding the soup bowl was hurting I decided I really needed …
Demolition!
We picked up the keys to the house on Thursday, had a pizza party on Friday, and ripped out all the flooring and appliances over the weekend. With Iris’ parents help we were able to get an amazing amount of work done, thanks guys! The painters were still working as we finished off today and …
Lego Designer
A few months ago I saw a post on Reddit about something I really wish I had heard about before; the Lego Digital Designer. Imagine a free version of Autocad that lets you build with Lego bricks. Any brick you can think of, any brick that’s been used, all in a fully 3d environment. Naturally …
Overwhelmed
It’s amazing how things can change over the course of two hours. We expected to have a relaxing Family Day long weekend (a BC thing), maybe a couple of days up Big White, breakfast out with friends, watch a movie. That kind of thing, but right at the start of the weekend, Friday at 5:30pm, …
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