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OK, another adult themed song here. But still clever and a LOT of great clips.

Don’t watch this at work!

Posted under Amusing

We’re walking through the rest of our house and clearing a way a bunch of the clutter that we’ve accumulated over the years.

I really can’t believe that I don’t have any decent “before” pictures. You always *know* you have some so don’t bother taking any and then realize later that you really didn’t have anything suitable.

So here is the “After” layout of the Gym. We removed the 28″ console TV we had mounted on the wall near the ceiling as well as the nearby wall-mounted stereo/VCR (that dates it nicely) rack. We also had the old mirror from the guest bathroom cut and mounted on the wall, pulled in one of our now-obsolete bedroom bureaus and rearranged everything.

We were wanting to replace the flooring with something more gym-like, but the prices proved prohibitively high. It was going to take about $3,600 to have such installed. I looked around and really wanted to have some 3/8″ “Triump Sports Flooring” from Johnsonite installed. It seems ideal for this application. Maybe next project…

So instead we elected to have our carpets cleaned and just make use of the mats that I already owned to provide proper exercise surfaces and to prevent the sweat from saturating the carpet. Probably the next big project we undertake will be to replace the remaining carpeting in the house with wood and/or tile flooring. Ah to have infinite resource (read “money”)…
Here is the view as you come in through the door off of the hallway

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The TV used to be mounted about where you see the white disk of the clock on the wall.

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Panning over you can see the exercycle and treadmill. I’m much happier with the treadmill oriented this way. It’s much safer in case of a slip or fall.

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Here you can see the air conditioner, which Tommy and Larry supported for us so that there would be less strain on the window frame. It’s also MUCH better insulated now than it used to be.

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Here you see the bureau with the stereo now mounted on it. You can also see Mich’s office in the back there.

Finally a back view where you can see the doorway to the hall and the mirror from the guest bathroom.

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Mich’s office hasn’t changed a great deal, but the desk is now oriented differently (no longer in front of the window), and she’s pulled in the bookcase that used to be located in the bedroom.

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I can’t get her to part with her drafting/art table yet so I’m hoping she’ll start actually using it for it’s intended purpose rather than just for storage. We’ll have to see..

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We’re overall very happy with the house and are working to make it all more conducive to how we like to live. Less clutter and more focused rooms.

Posted under On the Home Front

I’ve been asked by several folks now how to get in touch with Tommy and Larry.

Turner General Contracting is the name of Tommy’s company, he and Larry work together and they did most of the renovation work that you saw for the “Master Bathroom/Laundry Room / Guest Bathroom updates”.

Contact information from the business card is:

Turner General Contracting (Since 1950)

Specialized Painting

Renovations – Repairs

Room Additions

Decks – Pressure Wash

Complete One Stop Maintenance

Tommy Turner – 770-654-4551

Posted under On the Home Front

*** Update July 16 ***

Rose-Marie was kind enough to forward some pictures, some of which are now in the gallery. Thanks!

*** End Update ***

We delayed our Canada Day Celebration this year as some of our Canadian friends were in, well.. Canada! So last night we had some folks over to celebrate Canada’s 140th birthday.

Click this picture to go see the gallery of photos that we took

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Thanks for bringing touches of Canadiana that helped make for a festive atmosphere.

The bar was hopping and the cats were hidden for most of the night so all was well.

Nicer for me would have been if the major downpour of the evening hadn’t coincided with when I needed to use the Bar-B-Que. BTW, thanks Shawn for grabbing that Canadian Bacon off the grill at the end while I was doing the bartending thing!

Thank’s everybody for making this such a success, the T-shirts were great! See you next year!

Posted under Photos

Students Trade Bibles for Porn – XBIZ.com: You have to admit it’s a pretty dramatic statement. Mind you it really doesn’t involve the commitment that The Blasphemy Challenge demands.

How secure are YOU in your belief… or NON belief?

Posted under Metaphysics

If you know me, you know I love chocolate (yeah, yeah, and fries too..), King sent me this link to a resource that shows a little promise.

Heh, maybe someday this will grow into a useful resource. I took a peek and couldn’t find any of the places I like. Most notably absent is Rheo Thompson Candies in Stratford Ontario (their milk chocolate mint smoothies are out of this world!).

I wanted to add them but they seem to only want the actual chocolatiers to do that. I’m pretty sure this site won’t *really* take off until they encourage chocolate *lovers* to keep it up-to-date. It’s been my experience that “artistes” and the computer savvy crowd frequently do not overlap…

Posted under Gastronomy, Travel

I didn’t know that ants were quite this ambitious. I rather thought that, when confronted with something this big, they would work to chop it up or otherwise make it more manageable. It’s a pity that we don’t get to see what finally happens.

You might not want to view this if the sight of lots of ants makes you squeamish…

Posted under Science