The wife and I were giving the house its yearly spring cleaning top to bottom once over which included scrubbing floors, getting into the corners in the back of closets and the like. We just moved into this house, as our first home, in July of 2006. So there are still plenty of things that need work, and on a limited budget its one small step at a time.
Jen found a hint of blue peeking out from under the hideous beige tile in our foyer. You can see the tile in the picture to the left. It wasn’t bad, didn’t show dirt very well. But it was reminiscent of hospital tile, it was formless shapeless and boring to say the least. This hint of blue was a missive of royal blue peeking out from corners, and around the entire area. We quickly pull up on f the tiles only to find a lovely Blue and gold tile which the previous owners had for some reason covered up.
So of course we got straight to pulling the old tile out, which took about 1.5 hours to get it all out. But we were left with a mess of sticky floor. Linoleum glue sucks… In fact after trying everything in our cleaning aresenal we came up with the only contraption capable of removing the residue. First off a good dosiing with Acetone to turn the glue into goo, then a quick scrub with a Scotch Brite pad to collect the now gummy goo before it turned back into glue after the acetone evaporated. Then spray everything down with Goo Gone to remove the tacky, sticky bits left over. THEN scrubbing the floor with soap and water.
So 5 hours later out 6′ x 6′new foyer was done. Only problem is I had a hangover from the fumes for the next day and a half. The door was wide open with a fan blowing right out, it was just overpowering.
Just a small note, if you know a quicker way to get that god awful glue off the floor, keep it to yourself for a couple of weeks, until the pain has subsided. If someone tells me vineger or something else simple rips it right up i swear i’ll cry…
And all of this prompted the removal of the carpet on the stairs in the entry way as well, because that was dirty as can be, and incapable of being cleaned. Everytime you get it looking nice it only lasts for about a day. Wooden stairs will be so much easier to clean. Don’t mind the stairs I need to sand down and refinish them, so they will be B E A utiful in time.
I really wanted to talk about health. Everyone out there in this fast paced world of ours is struggling to not only find time for things like twitter, social media, jobs, family, traffic, life in general but also manage to pry themselves away from the computer long enough to get a little exercise in.
Both my wife and I work. We have one child, Paul who is 17 months old. Unfortunately since we both work, we miss out on some of of the fun of having him around all the time. This really gets to both of us on different occasions. Today i got to take a rare day off to be with my son. It was just the boy and myself for 90% of the day. And it was awesome, we get up shared breakfast, me a coffee, him milk. And I got to check my email, seesmic a little and twitter all throughout the day during the lulls in action. Paul even got in on the show. In fact i don’t hesitate to say he stole the show. as you can see below.
The best part was getting to play outside and in the park, there is preciously little daylight left at the end of the day usually so this was a nice change. Besides he is so much happier of a child before 5 pm.He just starts to wear down and get cranky after that, poor little man needs to keep to our schedule to a certain extent so he needs to get up at 6am too. Here are today’s fun Vids
Not too much to work with on that one…
I still can’t get over just how cute he is doing that. The “All done” comes out rapid fire or very emphatically when he doesn’t want to be somonewhere, like a car seat, or the mall.
Check out the CaffiNation for the last vid from this morning.
You know, if i had to go to prison I’d want it to satisfy two conditions. First off i wouldn’t want to be put in on some silly charge or circumstantial evidence. No i’d want to be a definite interment case. If for no other reason than you’d want to be taken seriously by the other inmates. You don’t want to have the Alice’s Restaurant littering charge on your resume. You want to go down as the guy who tuned up a mugger, a vigilante. Not that I’m planning on ever going in but if I did I would hope that it would be for some altruistic purpose.
Secondly, if i was to go to prison i could only hope that the penal system would have evolved to the point where scene’s like this are commonplace.
Its Much harder to shiv someone when your throwing down some MC Hammer. Besides your probably going to be a little less up tight and concerned with your image if you have to practice for the big dance number next week. No one messes with a guy lifting weights but its hard to build up a good head of steam when your practicing a quickstep.
Not taking myself too seriously this week can you tell? The video was funny, you have to laugh.
I’m more than a little bit of a science journal lurker. I love reading about all of the new discoveries out there. New Species, advancements in technique, anything i can wrap my head around. When I see video’s like this this National Geographic Deep sea video clip I usually stand in awe of the wonders of nature, and at the same point in time never vow to set foot in the ocean again… Giant Sea spiders indeed. In fact i was attempting to find a better picture of these things and i came up with this lovely Picture…
from this blog. What struck me wasn’t so much that guy had an icky spider sitting on his face but rather that people upon seeing this denzin of the deep immediately tried to find a way to eat it… And while yes they may be harmless little creatures, not these are normal sea spiders not the foot long antarctic variety, which i can only assume taste great in gumbo or chili.
For those of you really wanting to check out exactly how tasty these things are here is the recipe. I can understand some of the stranger delicacies from around the world. mostly because they involve indigenous items to the area, snails… er escargot… well they have these. But for sea spiders theylive on the bottom of the freakin ocean, you have to go out of your way to snack on these things. Its not like this is fear factor or something, there is no prize, no gratification, just you and an apparently tasty morsel… BTW if you need to invent a tool to let you eat it, its probably not on my menu. I’m looking at you escargot, you and your snail tongs.
Well it finally seems that the blog, the podcast and the main site for my Puzzle Piece Productions little venture have finally evened out after the move. My workflow has smoothed out over at the podcast ad I think things are trending upwards. So that being said I’m going to try and devote much more of a regular schedule for the blog, as well as additional articles over at the podcast in addition to the episodic content. I truly love writing, i enjoy educating and evaluating, and in that spirit i’m going to try and resurrect the boilerpl8.com website. The review situation, has been pretty bleak since i reviewed beowulf. Which was bleak in its own right. I’m going to give it one more go and look for a little help in the review process. We’ll see where this goes.
So long old hosting provider, and hello to smooth sailing. The migration should not have taken 3 weeks to complete. but it did.
The Long and the short of this tale are that you should always seek to treat every customer as if they were your only customer. You never know who you might be pissing off. My last hosting company never learned that and through the various times i was on hold for 4 hours, before i even got to speak to a human. They lost their way. I have recommended them as an affordable option which provided rock solid performance to ALL of my consulting clients previously. I have since had to apologize to those people and fill them in on what is happening. That makes my word less valueable as a commodity, which in consulting is a very bad thing. The New hosting company is GoDaddy, I have had to call twice already for help transferring my domains over. Both times i spent less than 15 minutes on hold and the person i reached was knowledgeable, polite and understanding. That is Good Service. Ipower has lost its way, they no longer provide anything which could be considered good service. I mourn the loss of their usefulness, but now that I’m migrated over I rejoice at the new world in front of me.
I’ll keep you up to date but so far no issues, and for a hosting situation no issues are great issues!
I gotta say if you have not tried Jott out, you really should give it a shot. This service is fantastic, right now I’m driving I’m able to concentrate on the road the most part, and so update things like call my wife, do everything else like leave personal messages on things that comes up as they go. This service is really awesome you should give it a shot, Jott, [...]. listen
I finally got finished working out in Jersey on a model sitting at a client house. Unfortunately every time I go to this guy’s house, there’s some kind of weird weather. So this day we got an ice storm. So, thank God for the Equinox(?). listen
So Most of you know that I have been trying to get everything in order for a retry of the Host change for the CaffiNation podcast. Basically here is what happened up until this point. Bought hosting from godaddy on the suggestion of many people. Transfered 2 blogs and started one new website, www.PaulRjMuller. All of which are considered development stage sites. All are in constant transition. This blog has the longest tail of any of my current web sites online. So I occasionally add an audio file to a blog post to test posting an episode of the CaffiNation Podcast. Both the CaffiNation Podcast and Puzzle Piece Productions, are considered production environments, so i hesitate to make any changes there. [Read more →]
And all of this prompted the removal of the carpet on the stairs in the entry way as well, because that was dirty as can be, and incapable of being cleaned. Everytime you get it looking nice it only lasts for about a day. Wooden stairs will be so much easier to clean. Don’t mind the stairs I need to sand down and refinish them, so they will be B E A utiful in time.
Got to get Tough
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