Now that painting is over, we’ve sorted the paint cans and can recycle them. As soon as the recycler get empty enough, anyway.
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We’re upgrading out our blinds. Apparently vinyl is only 7c/pound on the recycling market, so it’s not worth anyone’s time to drive out to a recycler. The fabric gets recycled though; so we separated it, and made a big shaggy lump.
I am now caught up on ironing. From December! Next thing you know I’ll be washing the windows. From 2003!
Things are slowly returning to “normal”. My ironing pile is decreasing, the laundry is mostly up to date, I finally took my suit to the cleaners, the painters are almost done (as they have been for a while). And I’ve started building the media room screen. This is not to be confused with the bookshelves, of course. The new screen will be canvas, and I’ll do some experiments with retroreflective beads. I suspect that they will be too directional, but I won’t know until they’re mounted in paint.
Sara and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Saturday. They had a sunflower that looked like a shower, a neat 20ft stainless steel ‘fuzzball’, and a little orrey-like thing with a handle and a guard nearby who kept having to rush up and tell people not to turn the handle. Oddly enough, they also had a plain, white canvas painting. And two copies of it. So maybe my screen will count as modern art. (Or get busted for copyright of modern art.)
We tried to go swing dancing in the evening but the venue disappeared. Other people there were confused too.
Since I installed satellite radio in Sara’s car last weekend, I spent most of the trip into The City playing with it. It’s quite impressive in engineering terms. But it’s also annoying in that it won’t tell you the artist and track name automatically. But they have a showtunes channel, and played a cool song from Avenue Q, so we were happy.
Extra: Psst! There are some draft wedding photos online now. But since they’re subject to further editing, don’t tell anyone yet.
Yay! My wonderful wife found me an Xbox 360 so I’ve been playing PGR3 most of the weekend. (Or Project Gotham Loading as it should be called; seeing as I spend more time waiting for things to load than actually racing.) It’s really nice. Two minor issues:
- I couldn’t recover my old Xbox Live gamertag, which caused some confusion for my brother.
- The Media Center software wouldn’t install. I eventually solved this one by tracking XP’s event log, and finding the service wouldn’t start; which was in turn because I have the two UPnP services disabled. Why it needs UPnP I don’t know, because I’d really like to shut them down again. (I don’t want a rogue http server on port 8000!)
We’re finally getting round to clearing some of the garage stuff. Good news! Found chocolate. We also had quite a lot of baubles.
So I was in CompUSA yesterday (I needed some 2c stamps—yes really). They had an Xbox 360 demo set up, with Xbox boxes all around the place showing prices, and a large stall with Xbox peripherals and games. The big TVs in the back of the stores were showing Xbox commercials. Could I buy an Xbox? No.
The helpful guy at the checkout suggested that if I was returning an Xbox, then I might possibly be able to talk them into selling me a Core System. Ugh.
I was too annoyed that they’d mislabelled/mispriced something else I was buying to follow up on it. My desire for the Xbox is rapidly turning into distaste. When’s the PS3 coming out again? Well, at least until Halo 3 appears.
On a different subject, I think I might be in trouble on the home maintenance front. I should probably fix the stove ignition at some point, but Sara’s new computer desk arrived today, and I know I’ll enjoy assembling that in the yellow office.
Yellow office, you ask? Well, our upstairs rooms can now be referred to as the yellow office, blue bedroom, purple bedroom and bright blue media room. Yes, we’ve got paint! The bright yellow is really neat.
I now have a green card, and am a permanent resident in the U.S.. (The ER-1 application went much faster than expected; although the expectation was for it to be excruciatingly slow.) Sara and I celebrated by eating expensive food last night.
We also got wedding photos back today….
You can now track my cell phone. Oh yeah!
