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3 days and counting...

Yea, I suck.. I know...

Long absence...

Lots of stress...

Pics to come again...

NEW JOB!!!

Less stress...

More to come..

There's Nothing There?!?!?!

For the past few weeks we have been in contact with the builder and trying to get a hold of the crappy HVAC company that put in our venting system. The problem? The register or vent in the office (South/West facing corner room with two windows) has absolutely no airflow coming out of it and the vent in our master has a tiny trickle.
Well, after several weeks of waiting, scheduling a duct cleaning company to come out, and 30 minutes of arguing with the HVAC company just to get an appointment for them to come out and look at the problem....they finally came out and found the problem. Due in part to cutting holes in the ceiling of the garage and pouring over the pictures I took of the house in the framing stage (i didn't have as many angles as I would have liked). The two problems. The ducting in the garage that leads to the master is restricted to about 1" of flow space in the crappy flex ducting they put to bend around a beam that should not have been done, because they could have gone straight up. Then the kicker. There is ducting from the office to the wall and down the wall of the living room to the garage....and then nothing. Nada, Zip, Zilch. There is a 15 ft gap between the end of the duct feed to the smaller ducting going up the wall. Absolutly nothing there. Might explain some things. They are suppose to come out tomorrow to fix it, so hopefully we will finally have A/C in the two hottest rooms of the house by the time it gets to 90 Deg tomorrow like the forecast says.
No update on the driveway...plans are still in for review with the city.

Lights in the clouds

I was at my old boss's house for dinner this evening and for about an hour from 8 to 9 pm there was constant lightning in the distance. It lit up the sky about every 10-20 seconds. The weird part was that there was no thunder and no rain where I was. Its still about 85-90 deg outside. I have never seen anything quite like it before. Today has be an absolutely beautiful day. A gorgeous sunrise and sunset followed by a light show. Now, as you have probably already guessed (if you don't know already) I am not in Seattle right now. I am down in Southern Arizona for work. It is over 100 deg during the day and doesn't really cool down much at night. This is my second week straight down here and I am ready to be back in Seattle. Due to the length of the trip, I stayed down for the weekend. I didn't want to stay here in the hot weather all weekend, so I drove through 116 deg temps north and west of Tucson to San Diego, CA for a few days. In addition Rissa flew down from Seattle early for meetings she had on Monday in Cali. So we got to relax in SD for the weekend. It was cool and beautiful and we got to see friends and family. I would like to post pics of the lightning, but I don't have a very good camera for night lightning shots down here with me so you'll just have to imagine it...:)

Speaks for itself

I found this a bit ago here...

You know you are a TiVo fanatic when....

So a couple of weeks ago we were still trying to get internet and cable tv access. It was taking a while because of the new address, then a problem with the cable line, and then a problem with the cable modem. We were finally able to get TV service, but the cable modem wasn't working properly. Next question was how to get the HDTiVo up and running? Now, if you don't know much about TiVo, when you set up a new cable service (in this case, two cable cards for HD!) it has to call into TiVo to get the program info. Well, we don't have a land line and the internet wasn't working. So what did I do?... I plugged my cell phone into my laptop, tethered it to the internet service provided by 3G from Cingular, set up internet connection sharing on the laptop to the Ethernet port, connected the port into one of my Gigabit switches, and told the TiVo to search for a connection...and what-do-ya-know! It worked! :)

Just thought I would share. Thank goodness for unlimited data on the cell phone...I think the data usage that month was something like 75 MB...:) I don't even want to know what that would have cost if I was on a pay per use plan.