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September 26, 2005
Finally finished master bathroom
...except for sealing the grout and caulking and putting the toilet back in and putting up the shower doors and the shower controls and, well, the new vanity top and sink, and....
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Full renovation pics are here.
Posted by John at 09:39 PM | Comments (7)
September 24, 2005
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Posted by John at 06:50 AM | Comments (0)
September 02, 2005
Rough month, rough move
Well, here am I in my new home, Claremont, CA. My Dad had a car accident a week before my move west, and I spent a worried weekend in the hospital in Seattle while he and my Mom and sister and I got through the first few days of his broken L1 vertebrae. I had to go back to Cambridge too soon, but my sister stayed on for a week more, replaced by my other sister after that. Dad is now on a rapid road to full recovery, it seems, but it's been painful.
My packing up went pretty well, and I had nice visits with a sister in Pennsylvania and then a college buddy in Columbus, OH. My long-time luck on long-distance trips and moves gave out along the way, however, when my car was broken into in a hotel parking lot in the midwest. They tried to steal the car and drive away with the U-haul trailer but only succeeded in tearing up the ignition assembly. Amateurs, I guess, and thank god for that. They then turned their attention to the contents of the car, and found my desktop computer under a tarpulin, riding more safely, I thought, over the soft suspension of the car than over the hard bouncing trailer axel. They also found the camera that was tucked in under a box to be handy for a picture along the way but which I thus forgot to take up to the room with me. They also grabbed a gym bag containing an mp3 player/recorder and two cases filled with every cd I've ever pirated (some kind of capitalist justice there, I suppose). I was stuck for two days waiting for the repair on the car. The rest of the trip was pretty nice, but I grieved the whole way for the computer, a lovingly home-made box I was totally attached to. I also really liked that old Nikon FE with the 24mm lens. Oh well.
Anyway, August is over, Dad is on the mend, the theft losses are fading into memory, and a new semester at a great new college job is under way. I never was so glad to see September!
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