We got off to an early start this morning so that we could do the last bit of cleanup before the painters were scheduled to arrive. We failed — the painters arrived at 8am (promptly on time, which I hope is a good sign) and I still had about 30 years of Analog to move out of the living room. But since they were neatly piled up, it didn’t take long to move them — and Jeffrey seems to be very interested in them now that they’re visible.
When I left the house, there were painters working on at least three rooms, and I could hear wallpaper being ripped off the bathroom walls. I wonder what it’s going to look like when I get home?
Our Merky Nooz carrier is still protesting, so we didn’t get the paper this morning. Given what else we had to do, that was probably good, but I’m getting tired of not having a paper.
Scratching an itch
The really observant among you will note the Site Meter graphic on the left side of the page — James Vornov‘s discussion encouraged me to install it. Now that I’ve had it running for a few hours and can see some of the results, I’m intrigued — most of my vistors have come from a Userland page (Scripting News, the Updates page, or Weblogs), but one person was looking for pictures of tulips and I’m 18th on the Yahoo/Google list of results for that query (interestingly enough, if you do the same query on Google itself, I’m the 36th result).
I still don’t know what good knowing all this will do, and as Al puts it, “I’m just awfully glad for your company”.
And here’s my privacy policy: I collect personally-identifiable data if you choose to join the site. I do not distribute this information to third parties (however, the site member list may be publically viewable). Other information, such as that gotten from Site Meter, is looked at for interesting nuggets, and it’s quite possible that I’ll post unusual referrer entries, but I will not post a correlation of such entries to visitors. Site Meter may, however, do so; it is not under my control.
Wine of the Day
Today’s wine is Bonny Doon Winery’s Pacific Rim Dry Riesling, and it is a repeat — we had it in Chicago and enjoyed it, so we decided to try it at home, closer to the winery. Tonight’s bottle is a 1998, and went very well with spaghetti.
Baby, It’s Cold Inside!
The painters made good progress today; they did the living room, our bedroom, and the patches of new drywall in Jeffrey’s room and the office (we got rid of the remains of the non-functional intercom system), as well as at least two ceilings. The bathroom is still very much a work in progress (I suspect they’re going to be back with a steamer to attack the wallpaper more seriously).
To reduce the fume level, we’ve got the windows open; of course, tonight is also the first chilly, rainy night of fall (61 degrees Fahrenheit, dropping to around 50), and so it’s getting a bit nippy inside. We’ll have to close up at bedtime and put up with the fumes, I think.
The painters all the furniture in the bedroom, and in the process, they reunited us with some long-lost possessions. I now have my missing Gore-Tex glove — unfortunately, I gave up on finding it about two years ago and threw away its mate. More usefully, they unearthed some photos which must have slipped behind furniture, including this one of Jeffrey at about 18 months, enjoying one of his favorite foods (and one he still enjoys, though his eating technique has improved over the years).