Update on Status
So it’s been 4.5 months since I last updated my website. Easily the longest I’ve ever gone without doing so. I hope to never go this long again without some sort of update. The biggest reason (excuse) as to why the website hasn’t been updated is that we moved into our new home that had an 1700+sqft unfinished basement. Colleen and I decided to put the computers downstairs, but there was only one problem — no electricity down there. Well, in order to get electricity you have to have framing and to have framing you’ve got to build according to code, which in the case of where we live, requires floating walls. If a floating wall sounds impossible, it’s basically a wall where you use a gun to shoot nails into pressure treated 2×4′s against the foundation of your basement and then attach your partition wall to the joists above in the ceiling but leave a 4″ clearance between your 2×4 you nailed down and the wall you just hung. Then use a 60d nail to join the two together. This allows the wall to float and if the foundation expands and contracts, it has room to move without causing major foundation problems and more importantly voiding your home warrenty! After I got the framing up, I needed to put in a subpanel for the electrical (so I didn’t have to go upstairs and around the side of the house everytime I wanted to install a new circuit or in case something trips) and then run wire to the outlets and new recessed lights I was putting in. Finally, after all that, I could quickly run some cat5 wire and plug in our computers and get back online and update the website.
So a lot of things happened since the last update. First, we moved into our home on August 31st and it was quite the move. We decided to hire people to do it for us since we had so many other projects to do. I immediately got started on installing the water softener (with the help of Colleen’s dad), and got the washer, dryer and fridge going soon after. Then it was on to the garage door opener and ceiling fans. On 9/7/05, Toid.net turned Five. To see the unexciting page you’ve been staring at for the last 4.5 months, you can go to the about page to see snapshots of Toid.net on it’s birthday.
For Thanksgiving, Colleen and I did a “supertrip” and drove to Oklahoma and stayed there a few days and then drove to Iowa and stayed there a few days to see family. After that roadtrip we decided we aren’t going to do that again. (Oh btw, we took Sooner with us) Upon our return I spent the next two weeks hanging Christmas Lights on our home. We also decided that Sooner needed to go to puppy preschool. Colleen and I took a break and went to go see Phantom of the Opera in downtown Denver. It was actually pretty entertaining. For Christmas we decided to not do anything too wild because we bought each other wood blinds for our home and a treadmill. Colleen’s really been using it a lot lately. In January, Sooner got really sick and we had to take her to the vet three times in one week! That gets expensive! But she is worth it. I finally finished up the work needed to move the computers into place and online. There is still lots and lots of work to do in the basement and backyard!
Looking ahead, I hope to get out and hike and climb a lot this year, along with taking Colleen skiing for the first time. I don’t know how much I’m going to be able to update my website, but I’m going to try and post new pictures as soon as we do something that warrants it. I have a backyard fence to build the second it starts getting warmer out, and I can’t wait! Sooner is destroying our upstairs! Oh well…that’s life. Until next time…
