• Home Improvement

    Back To Hell | And So It Begins

    July 26, 2009 - By 

    Tomorrow at 9am, the guy comes to install the ceiling fans in the two “guest” bedrooms. Here’s the pictorial story so far: We load up on a thousand dollars’ worth of flooring, the same color and brand of “lock & fold” engineered stuff that finally saved the day on the original Floor Project from Hell. This time, we’ve also bought the pine quarter round, and bought an undercut saw, because last time we learned that the pre-finished quarter round that’s part of the flooring system was made of some kind of densely impenetrable wood that our pneumatic brad nailer couldn’t…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Back to Hell: Progress Report

    July 26, 2009 - By 

    We cleared out the guest bedroom, as Monday the ceiling fan gets installed, and after that we rip up the horrid blue carpet and start on the floor project. The smallest bedroom has stuff stacked along the walls but the center is clear so a ceiling fan gets installed in there, too. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Back to Hell: Progress Report By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 26 Jul ’09, 5.13pm CDT PST

  • Episcopal

    I’ll Take My Communion Untainted, Please

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    Don’t want no boy cooties messing up my holy snack. So there, @ScottGunn! I’ve been following the “two-track communion” story for a couple of days now, and since it’s caused no end of amusement to my atheist and agnostic friends and family, it seems like it’s time to chuck my two penn’orth in the plate. Really? We’re the problem? | Seven whole days Now, friends, it’s time for the shoe to go on the other foot. Word comes from England that Blackburn Cathedral has set up two-track communion whenever a woman (gasp!) is presiding at the Holy Table. On those…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Only in Utah...

    Mother Love, Daughter Rape

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    Why it’s important that parents of gay children love and accept them just as they are, and why Utah is a deeply strange place: A Gift, from the Homophobic Culture « One Utah When we watch the LDS church claim they aren’t homophobic, and that common ground can be reached, even while they destroy bills that would help reach that ground, we are just watching a big, none too subtle, wink and nod at the culture of hate. When we see the single largest cultural influence in Utah raise money to take rights away from people based on beliefs they…

  • Home Improvement

    Going Postal

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    When it absolutely, positively has to get there… sooner or later. Maybe. Buzz Machine: The Death of snail mail and Sunday papers I was actually waiting for some mail to arrive, and finally received it today. My eye doctor had promised to mail my latest eye prescription card 2 weeks ago today, but the office manager forgot to put it in the mail until a few days ago. My husband David was waiting for stuff, too, and had checked the mailbox 3 times today. Third time’s the charm; the letter carrier must have just gone by. I rarely get mail…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Before

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    The "guest room" is currently the room where we dump travel stuff and home improvement junk left over from the floor job on the smaller room. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Before By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Jul ’09, 11.17am CDT PST