I went to three hardware stores today, one twice. My buddy Greg and I started at Harbor Freight and went to Home Depot afterwards. Later in the day I walked to Pearl Hardware and then realized what I’d forgotten at Home Depot and went back. I think I even bought the wrong thing and may have to go back yet again. What a mess.

In any case, I’m getting the pieces to finish the upstairs and I’m hoping it will be done soon. There are cosmetic defects here and there but what needs to be finished is getting short.

The east bedroom (where I’m sleeping) needs two attic doors, the closet to be trimmed out and then painted, and that’s about it. The extras are a couple more light fixtures. The room is full of boxes and furniture and that needs to be relocated throughout the upstairs.

The west bedroom needs carpet, outlets installed and connected to the breaker panel, closet light, two attic doors, and “window treatments” (or blackout shades in reality).

Oh, and then the stairs.

After that, I should have the upstairs back!

I wonder if the guy who “invented” USB is embarassed. I mean what a POS standard. It doesn’t come up early enough in the boot process to be useful in kernel debugging, it’s slow, and what about driver hell? Plus the asynchrononicity. Geez.

I did some awful work on the house. I’m waiting for the other upstairs bedroom to be finished and feel like going ahead and wiring up all the outlets and light fixtures. But the electrician is coming to finish all that and I don’t want to do a half-assed job that he’ll have to fix. I guess I’ll just have to be patient. In the mean time I went to Courtney’s house and replaced a GFCI to get the wiring out of my system. Luckily I had a spare.

Several of us from the gym went to Dove Vivi for pizza on Friday and I figured out how to get a good pizza there. They do a cornmeal crust which actually isn’t as tasty as it sounds when you get it by itself. I figured out if you load up on toppings, it’s pretty good. So I got the corn, onion, and pepper with additional sausage and pepperoni. I can recommend that combo. I can also recommend walking down the street to Staccato Gelato for dessert. I think I ate less than last week but I felt more full. Odd, huh?