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So we have tiled all of the kitchen with the whole pieces now. Next we have to do all the cut pieces around the perimeter, which we'll do tomorrow (Sunday)... and then we grout on Monday, and then we are done done done with the kitchen tiling!!
I can't believe how awesome the floor looks. It just looks GREAT! Once we get the stove and dishwasher back in there, it's really going to look awesome, and then we'll get the stainless fridge in a little while and it will all come together.
The floor was Andrea's "splurge" for the remodel and it was a damn good one. It really makes the kitchen. Everything in the kitchen looks better with that tile. The cabinets, the countertops, everything just goes with it. SWEET!!
Ok what else.. I finished my first week at work. I'm really liking this company. It's a helluva lot of work though. They're in that phase of having been a small company and now taking on more customers/companies, and so they are revamping all their procedures and everything in order to be more scalable. There is a LOT of work to do to get to that point. But it's an exciting time to be part of the company. SO much different than the IBM gigs I've had in the past few years. It's a lot like when I was in support there though and that's my favorite place to be. The owner is entrusting a lot of the direction to me. It's pretty sweet. I'm going to be automating a lot of their procedures, helping with I/T, coming up with my own suggestions for how they should do things, etc. It's very cool. The people are cool too.
It was a strange first week though. Their main support guy that I replaced left on Thursday, so now he's gone. And my manager was let go this same week (unexpectedly). I thought it was very cool that the CEO called me into his office to let me know before he told the company, he was scared that I'd get spooked with so many people leaving but assured me that everything was ok. That was cool.
We had a party for the going-away of the guy above. Pretty awesome. Beer, foosball, dominos (which apparently I need to learn how to play), darts. They called our support guy in the UK in what would be the middle of the night in the UK, and sang a song for him on a voicemail. Pretty funny. There are a lot of folks into music there too. And there is even a company band, which I may play some guitar in! It feels like a really good fit to me.
Oh, I got to play with the gas leaf vacuum tonight too! It's awesome! I still have a lot of the yard to do, but it works really well. It mulches the leaves too. I have a feeling it will be getting a lot of use with all the trees we have. Oh! HAHA last week this guy knocked on our door and I went to see who it was. He's a tree trimmer guy and noticed that our trees need some work. He wanted to give me his card, so I got him to walk around with me, show me what he'd do, and give me a quote. I think we'll definitely use him. He knew what he was talking about, showed me all the things we should do. For the ENTIRE yard (every single tree in our yard), it would cost $1500. That's a LOT! So I asked what we could do to just get started, and so he suggested that we take care of all the trees in the front yard, take off the branch that hangs over the driveway (at HEAD level for a tall person!), trim back from the roof, trim off all the dead branches, and remove all of the ball moss (which apparently is bad for trees and kills branches).... so for all of that, $400. That sounds like a good deal to me. We'll hire him. Going to give him a call in a week or so.
Today Habitat for Humanity showed up to take the old dishwasher and range from the "old" kitchen here. Andrea said that the guy was getting all loaded up when she realized that he had taken our NEW dishwasher. So she chased him down before they left and they swapped it for the old one. HAHAHA pretty funny. Someone would have been getting a brand spankin new stainless dishwasher!
Also on the agenda still... get front doors installed, and get gutters. Also, my truck needs a brake job and new tires.
Songs I cannot get enough of lately:
"Good People" - Jack Johnson
"If I Was A Stranger" - Ryan Adams
For that matter, almost the entire new Jack Johnson album is awesome!! And I haven't made it too far into the Ryan Adams one yet but I like everything on it so far. A couple months ago I couldn't get enough of the Keane album. It's another great album. Oh, and the new Coldplay is really good too. My favorite track on there is "Talk".
I think that's about all to fill you in on for now. 10:30pm. It's dinner time!
It's coming together!
AWESOME!!!
The dishwasher is pulled out right now, so we can tile underneath.
The dining room entrance to the kitchen.
Closeup.
Read the rest of this post - CLICK here!
So we have tiled all of the kitchen with the whole pieces now. Next we have to do all the cut pieces around the perimeter, which we'll do tomorrow (Sunday)... and then we grout on Monday, and then we are done done done with the kitchen tiling!!
I can't believe how awesome the floor looks. It just looks GREAT! Once we get the stove and dishwasher back in there, it's really going to look awesome, and then we'll get the stainless fridge in a little while and it will all come together.
The floor was Andrea's "splurge" for the remodel and it was a damn good one. It really makes the kitchen. Everything in the kitchen looks better with that tile. The cabinets, the countertops, everything just goes with it. SWEET!!
Ok what else.. I finished my first week at work. I'm really liking this company. It's a helluva lot of work though. They're in that phase of having been a small company and now taking on more customers/companies, and so they are revamping all their procedures and everything in order to be more scalable. There is a LOT of work to do to get to that point. But it's an exciting time to be part of the company. SO much different than the IBM gigs I've had in the past few years. It's a lot like when I was in support there though and that's my favorite place to be. The owner is entrusting a lot of the direction to me. It's pretty sweet. I'm going to be automating a lot of their procedures, helping with I/T, coming up with my own suggestions for how they should do things, etc. It's very cool. The people are cool too.
It was a strange first week though. Their main support guy that I replaced left on Thursday, so now he's gone. And my manager was let go this same week (unexpectedly). I thought it was very cool that the CEO called me into his office to let me know before he told the company, he was scared that I'd get spooked with so many people leaving but assured me that everything was ok. That was cool.
We had a party for the going-away of the guy above. Pretty awesome. Beer, foosball, dominos (which apparently I need to learn how to play), darts. They called our support guy in the UK in what would be the middle of the night in the UK, and sang a song for him on a voicemail. Pretty funny. There are a lot of folks into music there too. And there is even a company band, which I may play some guitar in! It feels like a really good fit to me.
Oh, I got to play with the gas leaf vacuum tonight too! It's awesome! I still have a lot of the yard to do, but it works really well. It mulches the leaves too. I have a feeling it will be getting a lot of use with all the trees we have. Oh! HAHA last week this guy knocked on our door and I went to see who it was. He's a tree trimmer guy and noticed that our trees need some work. He wanted to give me his card, so I got him to walk around with me, show me what he'd do, and give me a quote. I think we'll definitely use him. He knew what he was talking about, showed me all the things we should do. For the ENTIRE yard (every single tree in our yard), it would cost $1500. That's a LOT! So I asked what we could do to just get started, and so he suggested that we take care of all the trees in the front yard, take off the branch that hangs over the driveway (at HEAD level for a tall person!), trim back from the roof, trim off all the dead branches, and remove all of the ball moss (which apparently is bad for trees and kills branches).... so for all of that, $400. That sounds like a good deal to me. We'll hire him. Going to give him a call in a week or so.
Today Habitat for Humanity showed up to take the old dishwasher and range from the "old" kitchen here. Andrea said that the guy was getting all loaded up when she realized that he had taken our NEW dishwasher. So she chased him down before they left and they swapped it for the old one. HAHAHA pretty funny. Someone would have been getting a brand spankin new stainless dishwasher!
Also on the agenda still... get front doors installed, and get gutters. Also, my truck needs a brake job and new tires.
Songs I cannot get enough of lately:
"Good People" - Jack Johnson
"If I Was A Stranger" - Ryan Adams
For that matter, almost the entire new Jack Johnson album is awesome!! And I haven't made it too far into the Ryan Adams one yet but I like everything on it so far. A couple months ago I couldn't get enough of the Keane album. It's another great album. Oh, and the new Coldplay is really good too. My favorite track on there is "Talk".
I think that's about all to fill you in on for now. 10:30pm. It's dinner time!
It's coming together!
AWESOME!!!
The dishwasher is pulled out right now, so we can tile underneath.
The dining room entrance to the kitchen.
Closeup.
Read the rest of this post - CLICK here!
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