Geeking about wordpress
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I have to say I am liking wordpress. Its nice, I can walk away from a post afor a while and come back and finish it and not be timed out resulting in lost data. Better yet I could write off line and upload the file as a post. Then there are the plugins and the premade skins. I am not sure If I like the current one too much. When I get a chance I will see about making a custome crazy house blog skin for myself. 8^) Also, I am looking at a few photo album choices to get the digital pics around a bit better. 8^)
I am also working on a way to insert youtube videos in a nice way. Apparently editing the HTML directly is a no go, and I dont feel like shutting off the wisiwig editor. Seems to me we should be able to have a plugin that takes the vids direct link url and turns it into a inline.
Meanwhile back at the house….
OK, I am actually going to get something done today. Its time to get the ends on the cat 5 done so the ethernet upstairs can become useful. 8^) Of course I did notice that in the middle bedroom while drywallign apparently the cable connection fell out of the box into the wall again. Yup, that means I get to cut a hole in a new wall to fish the cable back out and put it where it belongs 8^P At least it should all be below the baseboards height. Damm I am now appreciating 6 inch baseboards a heck of alot more. 8^)
The weather will be getting more winter like again by the weekend.. Funny its amost the halfway point in January and now its gonna be winter. I dont even expect it to last at this point. I predict a very early spring. Not that I am complaining the work in the attic will be much easier and start much more early if its warm. I would love to start the gutting on March 1 and have floors in before the end of april with the walls and junk up by fathers day. Then I can spend the summer launging around and worring about the downstairs window sash rebuilds. 8^) More importantly I can start gettnig compulsive about the new media center PC and high dev cable card tuner and monster projection screen up there and Ikea couches. 8^)
Wow, I am looking forward to the new living room. The current temp living room sucks. The ancient futon has reached the point where it plain old hurts to sit on it for the length of Heck, it hurts to sit on for the length of a tv show. 8^( Also the tv is like 4 feet away, it is kind of uncomfortable to look at. 8^P
This is going to be a spendy but easy year.
The total project list for this year looks like this
Attic renovation
second floor wall patching and covering up the last of the stupid cork board left by the previous stupid owner.
bedrooms, wall electrical plates and bushbutton switches
bedrooms and bathroom replacement windows, and putting in good sashes
Basbaords in all finished rooms
dining room bump out and windows levelnd and repaired
ceder shingles on front and stair well bump out
Downstairs ceiling refinishing, new picture rails in the downstairs and re trim the dining room.
Vestibule?
PEX heating system brought on line with new hot water heaters
That it between now and next October, next January I will look at finiancing the new kitchen and start the kitchen in Feburary next year. That will leave only two big projects left, the garage and the other two side of the house. I think I will pay to have both of those done for me. That will free me up for enjoying the finished house. 8^)
Ivan