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.

MTTS 2010

I'm still trying to get the spouse to agree to let me go to at least one of the MTTS events this year. I think the single day in SF is going to happen, but everything else is unlikely.

I'll be tearing out the carpeting in the hall next week and installing wood flooring. I'll also paint the hall and have the space heater changed out to something newer with a thermostat.

The grandson is walking all the time now, he's just over a year old and still very cute. He's looking more like his dad everytime we see him although the genetic influence of my daughter is still strong in the hair and eye color. Should turn out to be a good looking kid.

I'm enjoying the world cup so far, USA drew a draw with England, great relief there. Also getting excited about the Raiders upcoming season now that Russell is gone and their draft seemed good for a change.

Redwings, Lakers

During the regular season for hockey and basketball I rarely watch any games. But if there are any teams I like to watch in the finals it would be the Redwings and Lakers. I became somewhat of a fan of the Lakers during the Magic and Bird days. Actually I became a Magic Johnson fan when his team beat Bird's team in the NCAA finals. That was a fun game to watch. It's kind of cool that Boston and LA are in the finals this year. I think it's the 10th final pairing between the two.
The Redwings are just a very talented team and one can usually see hockey at it's best when ever they're in the playoffs. Since I live so close to San Jose, I would have liked to see the Sharks in there, but they haven't been able to go all the way even with a great regular season record.
I am a big American football fan and will watch any game any time. I also watch Arena football and will watch that before I watch basketball, hockey or baseball.