Hallway Improvements

Almost finished with the replacement of the hall carpet with pergo flooring. The old carpet was badly worn with many holes to the pad and the nail strip showing along the entry way. We went with August Oak laminate. Still not convinced that it's super easy or long lasting. I did learn a lot and that should help me when I do the spare room with the same pergo. I'm not quite done and will be doing the baseboard and transition pieces sometime within a week. Pictures when complete.

The MTTS event will be only one day in SF. Instead I'll be going to Europe through my company and on the way home I hope to arrange a tour of the MINI plant in Oxford. Won't know about the tour until sometime next month but the trip is in September around my B-day.

Too bad about USA soccer, still not too shabby.

I'm in a AC/DC mode right now. I'm trying to complete the CD collection but funds are as always not easy to free up.

Bo Diddley

Got home today and found out that Bo Diddley passed away. Man, that's tough to take. I know he had a pretty long live and all, but it's still tough to think that one of my top five rock n' rollers is gone. I had to go and get some more songs of his from iTunes. I'm listening to some as I type this.

Last year I upgraded the electrical service in my house from 80Amp to 200Amp. I did this mostly to allow for A/C in the living room and to dedicate a circuit for the wall unit in the master bedroom. Now that it's upgraded I also put in an electric garage door opener. I later upgraded the electrical for the living room (since it's torn apart) and added a door bell and extra outlets. Anyway, because I'm such a great procrastinator, the inspection has to be re-certified for PG&E since I took so long to ask them to reseal the meter. In a later post I'll go through the living room work, it's a bit of horror story. Reminds me of the movie "The Money Pit" with Tom Hanks.