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Tile installation (day 2)

Posted on 2007-12-09 by Jim Vanderveen

(Originally posted via Jott. Completely re-written, added pictures.) Rick and his crew showed up again this morning to continue tile installation. Meanwhile, I spent about five hours this morning re-installing the electrical boxes in the peninsula counter. This was made … Continue reading →

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Tile installation (day 1)

Posted on 2007-12-08 by Jim Vanderveen

Rick, our tile setter, had his crew at our place bright and early on Saturday morning. There wasn’t much that we were able to help with, and those guys were moving so fast that there was no place we could … Continue reading →

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Kitchen faucet’s outta here!

Posted on 2007-12-07 by Jim Vanderveen

We got our faucet out of the kitchen finally. The guys are plugging the hot- and cold water and sewer lines right now. We’ll cover it up and I’ll post some pictures when we’re all finished. Posted via Jott Pictures … Continue reading →

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Jott

Posted on 2007-12-06 by Jim Vanderveen

I just found out about the service called Jott today. It’s very slick, one of the really cool things it has is a service to send a voice message from your phone straight to your Blog and in fact that’s … Continue reading →

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Tile prep (cont.)

Posted on 2007-12-05 by Jim Vanderveen

We did more prep work for our tile setter last night, mostly on the kitchen counters and backsplash. We could have avoided most of this if we’d had the foresight to get our tile and cabinet people together *before* the … Continue reading →

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SQLserver date manipulation and formatting

Posted on 2007-12-04 by Jim Vanderveen

MicroSoft SQLserver has some pretty slick features, but one area where they are definitely sucking is date manipulation and formatting. [Joseph complained about this](http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/06/22/sql-server-convert/) a while ago, but it’s time to me to chime in now. My biggest complaint is … Continue reading →

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Salvaging hardwood floors, other progress on the house

Posted on 2007-12-03 by Jim Vanderveen

We were pretty busy last weekend working on the remodel, as usual. Most of the stuff we did was prep work for our tile setter, but even though we put in about 50 hours this weekend we didn’t finish *any* … Continue reading →

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Difficulty upgrading to Leopard 10.5.1

Posted on 2007-11-28 by Jim Vanderveen

I upgraded my PowerBook G4 to [OS X “Leopard”](http://www.apple.com/macosx/) yesterday. (Thanks, Kasandra!) Looks pretty cool, but one of the first things it tried to do was auto-update to 10.5.1. The system would present a “You must restart to apply this … Continue reading →

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Punch list

Posted on 2007-11-28 by Jim Vanderveen

Our remodel/addition project has gotten to the point where it’s time to make a [punch list](http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/phase-1a-punch/). We (and our subs) still have quite a bit to do, but [this phase (1A)](http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/2007/06/21/remodel-master-plan/) is definitely nearing completion!

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Pictures!

Posted on 2007-11-27 by Jim Vanderveen

I uploaded quite a few pictures to our [Flickr account](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonicchicken/) today and created some new photo sets. I also added some more pictures to the [painting photoset](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonicchicken/sets/72157603089665346/).

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