The Treehouse Blog

The office has moved! Thank’s to Doug‘s help, all of my office/computer/network stuff has been moved in. We’re up on Kuhn cable, and things are looking good. Not sure when the bedroom stuff will be moved, but probably no later than next weekend. Chris also stopped buy this evening (er, last evening at this point)and dropped off a couch, and helped out with other stuff. Thinks are starting to get wrapped up, which is good news for my classes, which I have definitely been neglecting.

Painting is essentially complete. Getting the inside of the exterior doors painted would be a bonus, but isn’t required, I guess. The new flooring has been installed. The toilet innards have been replaced. All of the new light fixtures are up. So, it’s essentially ready to be moved into. The todo list looks like… installing new faucets, tracing and terminating cable to the patch panel, having Kuhn install cable (Friday), and buying the final touches (new blinds, stocking the kitchen, etc). Chances are there will be some type of moving this coming weekend. But, at the moment, I need to try to finish any and all homework I should have been doing over break…

Things are still moving along. I have the cables for the new wall jacks terminated, and the light in the data center (closet) is done. Tonight I began replacing tan electical outlets with more up-to-date white ones. Should neutral wires spark when the breaker is off? Seems that they do if you have CFLs on anywhere in the house. Interesting, but it was a bit unsettling.

In other news, I finally got around to cancelling my old cell, so if you need the number, feel free to ask.

Things are still coming along with the house… filling nail holes in trim in preparation of varnishing, buying paint, and picking out new light fixtures. I hope to terminate the room-side of the new wiring this week.

Chris‘s computer, My Naven, is akin to the Bermuda Triangle. For instance, tonight I spent over an hour trying to figure out why it wouldn’t output any sound in Linux. The driver was present, and seemed to be normal in all aspects, except for the fact that it produced no noise. I’m planning on trying another sound card in it… This isn’t the first instance either. Things just tend to be unhappy, and My Naven has changed hardware a number of times.

I’ve spent my evenings (and Saturday) this past week working at my house. So far, I’ve been removing shelving, screws, and nails, patching holes, running wire, cleaning up, and the like. Chris and my dad have helped some, and Doug got to take a look at my progress today.

In other news, school has gotten off to a pretty smooth start. My class load is less than last semester and I have submitted my graduation application.