Happy Hour at Chez Animal Hair Can I get you a drink?

OK this is how attention to detail oriented I am. Of all the stuff that went on on House Last night this is what I totally grooved on:

“And, of course, the most important discovery of the entire episode: Wilson is left-handed. And flushes the toilet with his elbow. Who knew?�

I just cracked up when I saw that someone else noticed this too!

[Read the whole article] with the other “important� stuff too.

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Today was my last day at my current office. So it was good timing that my audio book(s) arrived today. But it appears one of them is a Do-It-Yourself audio book as it is a regular book…with pages. Made out of paper. So unless I can get Greg to ride to work with me and read it to me, it ain’t gonna work. But it’s OK it’s a book I wanted to read anyway.

We have a house concert tomorrow night and still only have less than 10 people coming. I’m bummed. I don’t think I’m going to book anymore of these unless people start supporting them. I just can’t. It’s not fair to the artists. They need to make at least a couple hundred bucks in order for it to be worth it for them. Oh well, maybe people will start coming out of the woodwork tomorrow.

Here’s hoping!

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I know I haven’t written in awhile and you may have noticed the blog disappear for a few days. Here’s why…

I interviewed for a new job last week and I gave out my business card. My card has my web design company’s URL on it (http://whimsical.ecalos.com).

This is all fine and good, but since these are web design people I figure they know that this URL is a sub domain of www.ecalos.com so if they really wanted to know more about me, that’s where they would go. At least that’s what I would do.

Well, I had that URL pointing here to the blog. So I had to think fast (5 am is when this came to me) and try and figure out how to block the blog so they couldn’t see it. I didn’t want to take it down entirely because there’s always a chance it won’t come back. So I just made it so that all pages pointed toward the company page.

I then checked my stats and saw that Friday alone, 70-some of you came here and the site was gone. So I didn’t want to risk losing any of you so I put it back. And let’s just hope that these folks didn’t figure out to type in ‘blog’ before the domain and find this. I guess it would not be the end of the world even if they did and I don’t think my chances of getting that job are really high anyway. But I’m trying to be as professional as possible. While not terribly hard for me to do so, it is something I have not had to do in a long time.

So it looks like I am making the transfer to the Victoria office. I actually think the office will be nice (I will be in a building other than the one that smells like pee). But I am not looking forward to the drive. However, yesterday I went to Barnes & Noble and bought the audio book of Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story. There was no price on it, and when I got to the car I saw it was $49.99 which is completely insane. So I returned it a few hours later. I then went to Amazon.com and ordered it along with one other audio book The Memory Keeper’s Daughter



…and still paid less than the one was at B&N. Lesson: if you do not need something immediately, buy it online. I’m still going to get them by Wednesday. I heart Amazon.

The bathroom is coming along nicely. Greg picked out a really pretty bluish gray for the walls and he’s now waiting for the first layer of tile glue to set so he can lay the tile. It’s going to be perty.

Off to brunch with my mom.

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Are you ready for the Amy and Greg version of There Was an Old Woman?

So one morning last week I was putting my contacts in and my right contact looked like it went in my eye but it really didn’t. I looked all over for it. It was not on my finger, face or shirt. It also was not on the floor or in the sink. So I thought perhaps it went down the drain. I pulled the drain plug up and found lots of oooky hair and stuff and one really old contact stuck to the hair, but the fresh one was no where to be found. I replaced the plug and grabbed a new contact lens.

Later that week, Greg was in the bathroom and somehow he noticed that something was wrong with the drain. Apparently when I lifted out the drain plug thingy I broke something. Me and sinks are not friends apparently (see my entry on what I did to the garbage disposal), even though my favorite subject in pre-school was “Sink�. I was a bright one, yes.

So as Greg is trying to “fix� the drain he gets angry that there is a pipe heater in his way so he grabs it and throws it over his shoulder. It lands on the toilet behind him cracking the tank right down the middle.

So he now has to turn off the water so it won’t leak but he sees that the brilliant mind (ahem) that remodeled that bathroom placed the water shut off so close to the floor that one cannot turn it off without REMOVING the floor. Yes, removing the floor. So he had to rip up the carpet and crowbar up the floor in order to turn off the water.

I convinced him to go to bed before anything else broke.

Since the carpet and floor is all torn up and the toilet is no longer usable, we decided that we’ll not only get a new toilet, but we’ll redo the floors with tile. It’s very cold in that room so we decided to get the floor mat thingy that you put under the tile that has heating coils in it. We truck off to Home Depot and buy floor tile. They have a crap selection and none of it matches the wallpaper and color of the bathroom which means we will have to either live with it, or rip off the wallpaper and repaint.

We get home and Greg gets to the task of installing the floor heater and realizes that the electrical wiring in the room is all whack and we’re lucky we haven’t been burned to a crisp. Again, the Brilliant Minds behind this remodel. Trust me, this isn’t’ the first thing we’ve found done so poorly.

So back to Home Depot to get all the things we need for wiring. While we’re there we pick up a toilet (you can flush 150 miles of toilet paper and it won’t clog? Awesome!) and a vanity (you can’t have a new everything and still use that ugly crappy vanity, right? Plus, remember I somehow broke the sink). But there are only two vanities that they have that will work with our current situation and one is ungodly expensive and the other is too large to fit in the car. But we did it. While we were there I saw a light fixture that I thought was cool and I suggested getting it because, well, everything else is new. Greg said no, that it’s cosmetic and we can do it later if we want to.

We get home and Greg begins to fix the wiring and tells me that not only is the wiring all wrong, but that wall sconce? The one I wanted to replace? It’s broken and shorting out and we need a new one.

I’m not even going to do into the fact that when Greg was moving the toilet to the basement he set it on the carpet in the hall and now there’s a big black figure 8 on the floor (he set it down twice). Eventually we will rip up the carpet.

So: floor tile, floor heater, toilet & tank, vanity & mirror, wall sconce, and hell let’s get a new toilet paper holder…all because I dropped my contact down the sink. At least I think I did, I never did find it.

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