Working Around the House

Since I only have weekends to do stuff around the house I wanted to get started early on painting the Master Bathroom. Well things didn't go as planned. I uploaded my podcast, surfed the net for a bit and then Harry got up and we had breakfast. I was not feeling to hot, both Harry and have been under the weather. So I opted to not paint as that take alot out of you and instead I would do odds and ends around the house. So today I...

• Cleaned the master bedroom

• Put away all the laundry that I had wash a few days ago.

• Organized all the close in our closet.

• Finished the drawers that Harry had started.. he did the majority of the work I just spray painted the handles and re-attached them and put the drawer back together again.

• Set up our new HDTV in our bedroom but couldn't get it connected to our Direct TV, will have to deal with that tomorrow.

• Put the vents back on the wall in the master bedroom, been wanting to do that for a few weeks now.

• Put the new door knob on the guest bathroom door and hung the door back on, again been wanting to do that for a week.

• Cleaned up the kitchen a bit by cleaning off the island.

• Unpacked a few boxes of our DVD collection and put them in the newly painted DVD racks.

And I did this while not feeling 100%.

I wanted to get the office done but I'm just too tired at the moment. I may get a burst of energy but will see what happens. I always have tomorrow.

Hope you all had Happy Halloween and don't forget to turn back your clocks on hour.

Knights of the Guild Ep9 pt2

Knights of the Guild Ep 9 pt2

• October 31st, 2009

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 9 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Vorkism.
• * Our location today we’re still stuck in the white room.
• * We discuss Behind the Scenes of Season 2 Episode 11 - Collision Course
• * We have a fan interview with father and son team Rick and Andrew Moyer

• * We thank our donors
• * Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans and more importantly for the fans.

Kenny & Jenni

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Awesome Tattoo Festival in London

End of another work week

This week of work was quiet.. didn't have much to do, the show is just getting started and I don't have many people to manage. But after work today I came home and did an interview with my buddy Rick and his son Andrew for my Knights of the Guild podcast with Jenni. The interview went great, after that I had some dinner with Harry and then we drove to the transmission place to pick up my jeep finally. Took five days to repair and cost my $1995.65 but it's working again and I guess that is all that matters.

After we got home I started working on editing Episode 9 part 2 of Knights of the Guild podcast as the fan interview is all I needed to finish it. I had planned to release it on Sunday Nov. 1st but since it was done and podcasts don't do well when they are released on Sunday I decided I would release it tomorrow even though it's Halloween.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Since I started work again I have picked up some more audio books. My buddy Christopher talked about this new series called Percy Jackson and the Olympains, it sounded pretty cool so I got all five books on CD to listen on my drive in and from work.

• The Lightning Thief
• The Sea of Monsters
• The Titan's Curse
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
• The Last Olympian

Here's a brief synopsis: Percy Jackson & The Olympians is a series of adventure and fantasy books authored by Rick Riordan. Set in the United States, the series is prominently based on Greek mythology. The series consists of five books, as well as spin-off titles such as The Demigod Files and Demigods and Monsters.

The protagonist is Percy (Perseus) Jackson who discovers that he is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes. He learns that the legendary beings of Greek mythology still exist, including monsters, Cyclopes, Empousai, Titans, and also the Olympians (Greek gods) themselves who dwell in Olympus, now situated at the mythical 600^th floor of the Empire State Building. Monsters frequently attack him because he is a child of one of the "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades). Percy meets many other young demigods, both friendly and hostile, who are also in the process of discovering their heritage and powers.

So far I have listened to book 1 The Lightning Thief and book 2 The Sea of Monsters and today I started book 3 The Titan's Curse. They are fairly short books and not super complicated to understand. I love Greek mythology so I'm really enjoying all the reference in these books.
They are a fun read, not as engaging as Harry Potter but very enjoyable and I look forward to the further adventures of Percy Jackson.

Jeep Woes 3

Today I got a call from my mechanic and he said the part that he needed was not available and that he would need send my broke part to them to repair.. and of course that will delay my jeep from being finished. Now I have to wait until Friday for my Jeep to be done.

Dog Pen and Jeep update

Not much going on today.. work was fine.. still slow as there are only two editors, four loggers and an assistant editor here at the moment.

No word about my jeep..

And Harry finished Daisy proofing the dog pen. We are now confident that Daisy won't get out.. she's a smart doggie so will see.

The Dog Pen

While I was at work Harry got to work on the Dog pen. One thing we liked about this house when we saw it was the previous owners had a doggie door that went from the Master Bathroom water closet to an outside pen that was enclosed. Daisy is really good at holding her bladder for up to 10 hours but of course we feel horrible having to make her do that so we are happy to have this dog pen that she can go out and do her business anytime.. only issue is this dog pen would work for any other dog but not our Daisy.. she's too smart and realized how to get out of the pen so today Harry started working on making sure she can't escape the pen.

Jeep Woes 2

Well just got work that there was some "hard" pieces that needed to be replaced with the additional charge of $138.77 So now my total repair for this Jeep will be $1995.45

You know I can get upset.. because that won't solve anything. Sometimes life just throws you a curve ball. Things could be so much worse.. at least I can afford to make the repairs and not have to charge them to my credit card.. I am thankful for that.

Jeep should be ready either tomorrow but more likely Wednesday.

Jeep Woes

Got a call from my mechanic about my jeep's transmission. Not going to go into all the technical details but needless to say the transmission ends to be pulled apart and further checked. That will cost me $750 just for them to remove the transmission, look at it and put it back (if I don't do any of the work). He also said that with this kind of problem they will need to rebuild the "soft" parts of the transmission. That will cost me and additional $1033.88 for a total of $1783.88 and he said that if they find more issues inside with the "hard" parts the cost can go up.

I have been thinking about buying a new car as Harry has his new Truck and it's really made me want a new car. So I questioned should I have all this work done on a jeep that I don't want anymore. Well we just bought the house and Harry and I are debt free and I didn't feel like having car payments so I gave him the go ahead with the repairs.

Remodeling - Day Forty-Five

Today’s remodel agenda focused mostly on getting the Guest Bathroom finished. That has been on the agenda for a while, but there just have been way too many other projects that had to be done as well, and the guest bathroom never made it to the top of our project list. So I attempted to finished it yesterday but got about 80% done. Today I planned on finishing it up. In between painting the bathroom I started to work on the office.. tried to organize the million of cables we own. I would go back and forth between painting the bathroom and cleaning up the office.

In the afternoon I called AAA to get a tow truck to come by and pick up my jeep and drive it to the transmission place for them to look at first thing on Monday. Harry followed in his truck and since the transmission place was out in Canyon Country we figured we would go to Costco and pick up an HDTV for our bedroom since we had a second Direct TV HDDVR that we hadn't hooked up yet because we had only the on TV.

We also wanted to shop the other half of Costco since we only got half way through it the first time. After a few hours we emerged from Costco with a new 26" HDTV with a built in DVD player, along with fire extinguishers, sham wows, a new dog bed, pens, yard work gloves, bread, two pre-made meals and a bag of candy just in case we get tricker treaters (really just an excuse to have candy in the house).

After Costco we went up to Lowes to get some cable ties for Harry to start working on the dog pen that is attached to the side of our house.. There is a doggie door in the master bathroom that leads to this pen for Daisy to go out and do her business if we can't get home for a long period of time. But of course Harry needs to do a little work on it to keep her in it.

After that trip we came home and I was tired but determined to finish the guest bathroom. So I painted the trim and did some touch up works on the corners and voila it's done.. and it looks AWESOME.

Up next (meaning next weekend) will tackle the Master Bathroom... whoo hooo

Remodeling - Day Forty-Four

Well it's the weekend and now that I'm back to work weekends are my only time to help Harry around the house.. so today’s Remodel task started off with Harry having to finished up the DVD racks with polyurethane. While he did that I started painting the accent wall in the Guest Bathroom. While standing on the seven foot ladder I lost my balance and fell to the floor. I manage to turn upright and avoid hitting my head on the sink or toilet but instead my left foot went right into the gallon can of red paint. I laid there for a moment trying to figure out if I had broken anything but every seem to be in order. I started to get up as Harry came running to see what had happened. As I looked down at my foot I realized that about 1/3 of the red paint had come out of the can and was now all over the walls, tile floor, paint tarp, bathtub, and my pant and sock. It was a mess but after a little cleaning up we managed to get all the paint up. I was sore but avoided some serious injuries.

After Harry finished the DVD holders he tackled the chicken wire around the 'garden'. We planned on using the chicken wire on the outdoor section for the dog. There is a small gap up on top and of course our dog has figured out how to squeeze out of it... so we plan on sealing up the entire thing. After the chicken wire he removed the old and falling down blue picket fence.

I continued to paint the guest bathroom.. I did all the walls and only had the trim and corners to take care of... but I was tired and sore from my fall so I called it a night and figured I would complete that room tomorrow.

Broken Jeep

Not the best way to start my day. Got up this morning and felt pretty good. Got ready for work, then go sidetracked and was running late. I jumped in my Jeep and started it up.. sounded good. Started to drive away and heard a sound that I hadn't heard before and it didn't sound good. I continued to drive down the hill hoping that the jeep was just cold but when I got to the main street it sounded worse. I got out and looked at the engine to see if anything was lose, but it all looked fine. I got back in and drove a half a mile and then the transmission slipped and my engine rived up. I thought to myself.. there is no way I'm going to work in this jeep so I turned around and headed back home. Luckily the jeep made it all the way home. I talked to Harry for a minute and then jumped into his truck to get to work. Not a good way to start my new job. I'll have to take my jeep in this weekend and have it looked it. Sounds like it's a bad transmission, which can be costly.. oh well such is life.

On the house front.. Harry continued to work on the DVD holders. They were light pine color but we wanted black to match our TV room.. so a few weeks ago my buddy Will and I sanded two of the DVD racks and today Harry painted the two and sanded and painted the third one. All he has left is a polyurethane coat and they will be good to go.

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