🧹Cleaned, got ready to replace the light on the front porch. 🧹Did a bunch of errands and replaced lightbulbs. 🧹Sink, two mirrors, drywall, downstairs cleaning 🧹Installing sink, cleaning den 🧹Prepared for Thanksgiving 🧹Tried to fix leaky basement 🧹Chain lock on basement door 🧹Protection against identity theft 🧹Home automation/security software installed 🧹Plumbers cleared out water main 🧹Looking for a place to live in Seattle 🧹New bay window, now with 99.44% less heat transfer. 🧹Utterly failed to get light switched changed 🧹Fixed towlrack, let out a mighty roar. 🧹Installed quarter-roundeds, cursing all the way 🧹Paid rent and let landlady know about birds in attic and ants. 🧹Struggled mightily to get X10 lights working. Failed. 🧹Set up cable TV; found out that we actually get some good channels 🧹Built a dang Ikea bed frame thing; it was a pain 🧹Built another dang Ikea bed frame thing 🧹Helped Tom with microwave 🧹Check out potential new apartment 🧹Drilled and secured boards on 2 Ikea bed frames 🧹Loads and loads and loads of laundry. 🧹Help Matthew move into new apartment. 🧹Built better lock on sliding door. 🧹Bought, loaded, unloaded, carried, and set up two tatamis 🧹laundry- first towels, then clothes 🧹Mudded and caulked bathroom 🧹Built cool hanging trapeeze closet 🧹Fixed kitchen light and (maybe) back yard light. 🧹Looked at another apartment; while we were signing the application, someone else called and claimed it 🧹Cleo poured salt all over the floor. In multiple rooms. 🧹So much clothing to fold. A veritable mountain. 🧹My house is a shithole right now, and I‘m too tired to do anything about it. 🧹 I got X10/Insteon working! YAY! 🧹Climbed up in Ben‘s hot, hot attic, where I found a bunch of my old stuff, including MY CLAMMBON SHIRT!! 🧹Crawled around in the attic a ton, to find and rearrange stuff I‘m storing here 🧹Helped Dad attach wood thingies to window; this trip has definitely satisfied my yearly requirement of ladder-climbing 🧹Worked from home for sewer main repair 🧹Big crazy construction on house 🧹Big crazy construction on house 🧹Got creative and made a bunch of space in the closet 🧹More creative space-making and stuff-disposal 🧹Set up more home security 🧹Put up some pictures, organized 🧹Went & looked at a townhouse; bedrooms way too small 🧹Looked at a Greenwood apartment; I guess we are moving into it 🧹Threw junk away with Nate 🧹Built some fruit fly traps; they work 🧹Applied for a duplex; found out Rachael lives in the other half! 🧹Schlepped, unpacked, washed, and organized new dishes from sisters! 🧹Kid-proofed the last couple of cabinets. 🧹Patched a hole in the ceiling from when we installed the microwave and removed the old vent, so we can blow insulation into the attic. 🧹Resumed the Great Insulation Installation Project of ‚Äô06. 🧹Packed up some boxes for eventual move 🧹Household repairs with super glue 🧹Packed. Weird to think we‘ll be gone in 5 days. 🧹Moving in to new apartmento 🧹New place walkthrough; it smells very bad and the bathroom is filthy 🧹First trip moving stuff into new place 🧹Second trip moving stuff into new place 🧹Third trip moving into new place 🧹Arranged essential items in the one room that doesn‘t stink; this is our apartment now 🧹Got the carpet sprayed with odor-eating bacteria; fingers are crossed 🧹Now we have cable, and a signed piece of paper that says our apartment smells like pee, signed by the cable guy 🧹Got home too late for trick-or-treaters. House was not TPed. 🧹Drinking coffee, and ignoring the fact that my house is a mess. 🧹In Jon‘s cellar, first time in ages. Found the thing. 🧹Took our first carload of stuff to the new place, which is orders of magnitude better than the old one 🧹Carried one carload and one truckload of stuff to the new place with Andrew 🧹Carried two carloads of stuff to the new place with Andrew 🧹Brought a carload of stuff to Omni 🧹Brought a carload of stuff to the new place 🧹Arranged stuff in our tiny but awesome new home 🧹Putting books in LibraryThing 🧹Tons of apartment rearranging 🧹Tons more apartment arrangement 🧹Internet and a whole bunch of free channels GET 🧹TV is dying. Researching new ones. 🧹Set up our new extended closet area 🧹Bit of reorganizing and rearranging 🧹Had DirecTV installed, by a ne‘er-do-well-looking guy who professed to being a fan of the History Channel. Had him call the office to waive the fee for the stupid $75 tripod. 🧹Assembled table, programmed remote, hid TV cable, et cetera. 🧹Billie spent time with the boy while Meghan and I started hanging more shelving in the laundry room. 🧹Un- and reinstalled curtains 🧹Painted our bedroom wall \"Ledger\" 🧹painted our living room wall \"Dark Fig\" 🧹Cut and removed tape from painted walls. Turned out pretty okay. 🧹Various house activities. 🧹Hung up a complicated curtain wire and some lights 🧹The microwave repair guy gave ours a clean bill of health. Score! 🧹Meghan made better curtains to block out light from the dude‘s room. 🧹Sarah made better curtains to block out the light in the dude‘s room. Brainwaves with Meghan. 🧹Massive plumbing disaster. Tore up my basement floor after work. 🧹Basement, basement, basement. 🧹Completely demolishing the basement. 🧹Tried re-sealing the kitchen faucet. 🧹Spliced a new USB plug onto the lady‘s tablet 🧹Troubleshot my newly shot hard drive 🧹Tore apart the dang hard drive 🧹Put another 1GB of ram in my laptop. 🧹I finally got around to fixing up the car. More to come! 🧹Stained the shelves while listening to Rush. Reminded me of painting doors in Craig‘s basement. 🧹Got a little table and some chairs from craigslist for the lady‘s brother 🧹Went to Shibuya to drop off the MacBook Pro 🧹Helped the lady‘s brother move in 🧹Miscellaneous household stuffs and packing 🧹Failed to get the lady‘s brother‘s car open with a screwdriver and a long metal pole 🧹Laid out bathroom in Bell House 🧹Measured all rooms at Bell House 🧹Watched baby as Sarah did all sorts of cool improvements to the house. 🧹Schedule garage door repair 🧹Finished waterproofing the fence 🧹Totally fixed the curtain hangy thing that I tore out of the wall yesterday 🧹Bought and installed strike plates 🧹Fixed bathroom door that wouldn‘t stay closed 🧹Need a place for the toilet paper holder... 🧹Mailed David‘s repaired iPhone etc. to Geneva 🧹Repair of concrete under garage door 🧹Left note for contractor about 3 small items 🧹Roof and gutter work. With safety line. 🧹Inspector found minor problems with furnace work 🧹battened hatches for Hanna 🧹Repaired one of the dude‘s loaders. 🧹Fixed motion sensors on carport and back yard lights. 🧹Bell House bathroom ready for inspection. Probably first week of December. 🧹Decided to combine door-dryer solutions. Took off molding. cut new extension pieces. Knock-down work table worked great. 🧹One step forward, two steps back on dryer door. 🧹New door hardware doesn‘t fit existing door. 🧹Switch all hardware to match new door. Mount left door. We have clearance. 🧹Plumber replaces washer hose. 🧹Plugged in first \"ultrasonic\" mouse repeller in the cellar. Its faint rapid clicky noise drove me away; we‘ll see how it does with the (presumed) mice. 🧹Bailed on the game at the last minute to help with Thanksgiving prep. 🧹Back to usual routine: exercise dogs, errands, chores. Nap unrequited. 🧹Thought of a replacement theory for new items in my house - each time I buy a new thing, I get rid of something. I wonder how feasible this is? 🧹Dismantled and remantled our stupid Intermetro shelves 🧹Laundry bifold doors are skewed. And rub the washing machine‘s door. 🧹Fixed the skew in the laundry‘s bifold doors 🧹Shut off the outside faucets in anticipation of a cold snap (with snow?) this weekend. Tried to wash my hands afterward; discovered I‘d shut off water to the whole house. Went back downstairs to turn that back on and the outside faucet off for real this time. 🧹Posted 120 thing into Delicious Library and started selling items on Amazon. Trying to rid house of crap. 🧹Repairdude figured out what was wrong with the dishwasher; now to find the part. 🧹Want to install DTV converter box. While installing 3-prong outlet, sparks fly. Disconnect outlet, killing all wall outlets on the outside wall. Including the Christmas tree. 🧹Washing machine doesn‘t drain. Except onto the floor, through it and onto the back yard. Plan B: wash laundry in Reston. 🧹Managed to clean dryer vent with nifty shop vac with 15-foot hose 🧹Cut notch in mop board behind the dryer. Able to put it 2 inches farther in.