From Chaos Comes… More Chaos?

Instead of going through the terror of buying a new house, we are reallocating space in our current house.  This weekend we started the Big Move.

Paint, Mom, paint!
Paint, Mom, paint!

The girls’ room is becoming the office.  We hope that by tomorrow the painting will be done enough so that we can start moving office stuff in.  We will still be waiting a while for a few new bookcases and shelves.  I’m quite eager to get my computer stuff moved to its new home.

“New” bunk bed

Neil, in a last minute decision, gets the bunk bed from the girls’ room.  Long ago he occupied the top bunk, and now he will again.  Plus he’s got room for a friend to sleep over.

The girls' room not coming together yet.
The girls’ room not coming together yet.

The dormer/former office needs the most work.  Terry still needs to paint up here, we need a new bunk bed, we need some ceiling damage repaired, and we need a better A/C solution.  Tomorrow a good deal of the stuff around the edges (and my desk area that you can’t see) will move downstairs. The rest of it will happen as fast as we can make it.

And I almost forgot—I’m replacing all the closet and entry doors also.

Maybe we should have just moved…

My sincerest hope is that all will be in place within a couple of weeks.  Maybe I’ll post pictures of the end result then.

Once this is done, we begin Phase II, the conversion of our walk-in attic space to a nice closet for the girls.

 

Back To The Blog

I have let this blog stagnate for a while, but I think I’m going to try to get back to it. I used to post here and let Twitter be auto-updated for a lot of things, and this used to be the only way I would post to Facebook. Today I cleaned out some of the blog cobwebs and updated to using NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster, which so far appears to be an amazingly good way to distribute content.

Now to find something not too boring to post… Something more exciting than this…

Why I Love Dreamhost

Dreamhost is my hosting provider, as it says at the bottom of all of these blog pages. I sincerely do love their service and have been a customer for 9+ years. But today I will delve into slightly more detail. Here are some of the reasons I stick with Dreamhost:

  • They are inexpensive for lots of space and bandwidth.
  • They have an excellent panel for configuring web services, domains, email, etc.
  • They provide a lot of flexibility for handling of email, which I take full advantage of.
  • They don’t take themselves too seriously. The newsletters and press releases are great.
  • They have good customer service.
  • They require me to write posts about how wonderful they are for a chance to win a year of free service.