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<\/a><\/p>\nWow, what sorts of setbacks can it take? First I bought a doorbell. I had to rewire the rat’s nest of doorbell wiring to get it hooked up. I had to get a bigger transformer when I realized that the one the electrician put in wasn’t big enough to run two doorbells. Then I had to try two different ways of getting wiring from the basement to the upstairs and that caused me to break the fiberglass fish sticks I was using to get the wire through the walls. I had to cut holes in the firebreak after using a different path. I had to cut a hole in the wall and add an access hatch\/door. I had to plug one of the holes in the firebreak when I realized I didn’t need it. I had to drill a blind hole in the header above a wall in the attic, run a wire, and then use a toner\/tracer to see where the wire ended up so I didn’t have to cut the sheet rock too much. This is weeks and weeks of this nonsense and it’s finished! Now I can hear the doorbell ring even in my upstairs office for those few occasions where the UPS guy is adding to my horde of computers.<\/p>\n
I was supposed to go to the Trailblazer’s game tomorrow, but I think my friend is taking his nephew instead. I think that’s a better idea anyway because the kid loves sports. We’re hoping he’ll play in the major leagues someday and then maybe I can get even better tickets as the friend of his uncle. It’s a long shot, but I’m all about the delayed gratification. Delayed until it’s too late, probably, but whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HaHA! The Packers win! I spent a pleasant afternoon at a friend’s house, watching the Superbowl. I felt like a complete space cadet, because I was there once helping them move in and it looks completely different now that it’s not just boxes in rooms. I thought they’d repainted and refinished the stairs, but I think it was just that they had decent lighting in the room. Even thought it seems like I would have gotten nothing else done, I finally got 20G of data to my sister, and I FINALLY FINISHED THE DOORBELL PROJECT. Wow, what sorts of setbacks can it take? First I bought a doorbell. I had … Continue reading Superbowl Sunday<\/span>