Trip to High Museum in December

Originally uploaded by Tommy Ryan

This picture is during a family field trip to the High Museum on 12/28/08. We saw the “First Emperor” Exhibit. This is the best exhibit that I have seen at the High.

BTW, this blog post is creating through sending an email. Awesome integration… Outlook email -> Flickr email address -> Post to WordPress based on a predefined template. It is sad that these things are exciting to me .

Linda and I are in the middle of a remodel of our basement.  I started this with my Dad on 2/14 and have been chipping away at it each weekend since then.

Here is a short journal.  I have shared more pictures up on flickr.

Weekend 1 (2/14-15)

• Put up walls (Thanks Ray Whitaker!)
• Run wiring (did everything but connecting to the box)
• First coat of ceiling paint (a spray gun is the only way to go with this)

Weekend 2 (2/21-22)

• Hang Drywall (Almost broke my dad’s back with this task… he was a trooper!)
• Put up blocking above the walls between the rafters
• Wiring ceiling light cans
• Final coat of paint on ceiling

Drywall is up!

Weekend 3 (2/28-3/1)

• Finishing drywall (oh boy… this task is not hard, but VERY messy… dust everywhere)
• Finishing wiring

Man this creates a mess!

Weekend 4 (3/7-8)

• 1 coat of prime
• 2 coats of Irish Tea paint
• Preparing trim (painted the trim)
• 3/4 of crown molding done
• 2 coats of trim paint on window and door

Walls painted and trim around the pipes. Lots-O miter joints.

We are getting close, but probably have 3 more weekends of work.  We need to get up all the trim, install door and ventless heater, and lay carpet.  I will probably post after it is all done… maybe even do a video (we’ll see)…

Austin had decided to go with a more generic running blog name and url.  I updated my earlier blogpost to have the new url (probably violated 101 of blogging, but did not want people to go to the wrong place).  The new url is http://trail-clocks.blogspot.com and the name is “The Deeper Side”. This fits Austin well. He is our deep thinker.

Here is the image he has for his blog -

Austin's blog image

BTW, he got is first comment and he was estatic. I thought it was a very thoughtful comment… see – http://trail-clocks.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-am-able-to-hear-my-distance-pace-and.html#comments.

Austin is trying out blogging for the first time.  He is a passionate runner and decided to have the topic of “Half Marathon Training”.  Here is his blog – http://trail-clocks.blogspot.com.

He wanted to start the blog as a way to earn money.  He is a very entrepreneurial person and is having me setup an AdSense Account so he can advertise on his blog.  Looking forward to seeing how this works out for him.  It is great to see him apply himself.

This is not the first time that Austin has looked for ways to make money.  His last idea was to borrow $5,000 dollars from his parents so he could open an ETrade Savings Account.  I will have to keep on his good side… some day I will probably be borrowing money from him.