Agnes is a cool photographer. I’m her tech support nerd and photo equipment mule.
Sometimes I convince Agnes to do nerdy things with me, like see the latest comic book-derived movie, and I suspect it’s more of a spousal support thing.
Well tonight she’ll be with me as we wait in line to get our copy of [...]
Archive for October, 2007
…I’ll try to get driven in a stretch Prius.
To return the American Standard toilets we purchased and get the dual-flush TOTO ones.
I’ll have to see about getting a better price than $400.
From the NY Times: “Recycling the Whole House”
Published October 18th, 2007 in Blah and Our House. 0 CommentsI love stories like the one below because they inspire me to be more thoughtful about the building process. A lot of the things we’ve done to this point with the Dellwood house have been in the spirit of green-ness, but I won’t lie and say that some of those decisions to reuse old portions [...]
Stainless steel certainly has that cool “professional” look, but looking to the future I think going with a darker, less maintenance-needed style will fit our personalities a little better.
It will also save us around $200 per appliance. So that’s another plus.
For example, the Fridgidaire GLGF389G range below has five burners, a griddle attachment (hello pancakes!), [...]
Sometimes reusing what you’ve got is more trouble and more expensive than going new. That stinks.
So even though we have a stack of the original wood doors we’re going to put new interior doors in the house. The time and cost of stripping, sanding, repainting, and rehanging the doors we have is prohibitive. We may [...]