that’s whacked

a hard day’s work

Sunday, Aug 22. 2004  –  Category: Musings

Spent a good long day getting tons of stuff done… I set Roomba about vacuuming our kitchen, living room, and bedroom and he (she?) did a great job. It’s funny how Wendy and I refer to Roomba by name. i.e.: we don’t say “use the roomba and vacuum the room”, we say “tell Roomba to clean up the bedroom”. bizarre. gadget freaks we be.

Zac & Jaime came over and we started the long task of finishing our basement. The basement currently looks like this. We managed to clean up and move all the stuff out (Wendy and I had dumped a lot of empty boxes, etc. in there), and put up all the insulation. Since we hadn’t put up the walls yet, I took the opportunity to start drilling and running cable drops for coaxial and ethernet (cat5) lines. I’m thinking of making the inner/shorter basement room a storage/server room. It’s central to the entire house, so it shouldn’t be too hard to run ethernet drops to all the rooms I want. We also started re-routing some of the electrical lines in order to remove the obstacles so we can mount all the sheetrock/dry wall flush against the walls. This is gonna be a long project, but a lot of fun..

I also bought a new water heater today… a monster 50 gallon one to replace our puny little 20 gallon one which isn’t enough for two showers. Zac & I moved it in, and I’ll probably hook it up in a week or two when I get the time.

… and last but not least, for the first time since I started downloading mp3s 7 or 8 years ago in high school, I finally properly tagged all the track name/artist/album, and most importantly: genres for my entire MP3 collection. I can now finally say “play all rock songs” and have it make sense. There’s nothing worse than having your entire collection playing on random, getting into a really cool ambient or trance groove, and then having Celine Dione (I keep it around for my mum, damnit!!!) come on.