My original thought for the day: With the passage of time, the probability of any online community becoming a closed set approaches 1.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Well, the VHSL state Q's are ready to go off to the editors. I placed an ad for editors on hsquizbowl.org. I hope someone answers it; the questions need feedback from people who are very good subject matter experts.
The bathroom upstairs is torn to pieces. I should go and take a picture of that, but getting to my camera will require climbing over so much stuff from the baby shower Sunday. Putting that stuff away is more difficulty since Melanie's future room is now full of stuff for the bathroom remodeling. At least I have a toilet and sink down here that I can use. I hope Melanie's future bedroom will be ready by Friday; Jennifer and I will be going through the numerous books and carting them off to Samuels or Shenandoah Public Library. If not then, well, it'll be at some point.
I'm told the work will be done Friday afteroon. I'm guessing tomorrow is when the drywall and floor tiling will be put in, then I suppose the shower tiles get put in place. By that point, it'll probably be 5 or 6pm, since the drywall has to well, dry. Apparently there's some fiberglass-based drywall that gets put in bathrooms these days. Hopefully it's not designed to break down in 5 years. Wednesday, I guess the bathtub, toilet and vanity get put in place, and Thursday, I guess the painting gets done if it hasn't been done already on Wednesday. Then I look around the joint and ask them to do a few random odds and ends, and they clean up after themselves.
I then have a remodeled bathroom, which I suppose counts for a couple grand in the house price. Then, Rebecca and I will chose to (1) do nothing, (2) put a second full bathroom in the basement, (3) remodel the kitchen/dining room area or (4) expand the den. Of course Melanie stuff has to take precedence, but I can see myself doing one of the latter three by the end of 2008.
Needless to say, I worked from home today. I figure I can get in some basic hygiene in tomorrow morning, and then try my luck with going into work. I might take a cab as it's supposed to be very cold. Brr.
God is certainly blessing me with each day I am here. My daughter is fast approaching, and I feel more and more ready with every day. There will be several surprises, but I hope and pray that I can handle them all. Then, after several months, we'll have to decide whether we want to have more kids!
The bathroom upstairs is torn to pieces. I should go and take a picture of that, but getting to my camera will require climbing over so much stuff from the baby shower Sunday. Putting that stuff away is more difficulty since Melanie's future room is now full of stuff for the bathroom remodeling. At least I have a toilet and sink down here that I can use. I hope Melanie's future bedroom will be ready by Friday; Jennifer and I will be going through the numerous books and carting them off to Samuels or Shenandoah Public Library. If not then, well, it'll be at some point.
I'm told the work will be done Friday afteroon. I'm guessing tomorrow is when the drywall and floor tiling will be put in, then I suppose the shower tiles get put in place. By that point, it'll probably be 5 or 6pm, since the drywall has to well, dry. Apparently there's some fiberglass-based drywall that gets put in bathrooms these days. Hopefully it's not designed to break down in 5 years. Wednesday, I guess the bathtub, toilet and vanity get put in place, and Thursday, I guess the painting gets done if it hasn't been done already on Wednesday. Then I look around the joint and ask them to do a few random odds and ends, and they clean up after themselves.
I then have a remodeled bathroom, which I suppose counts for a couple grand in the house price. Then, Rebecca and I will chose to (1) do nothing, (2) put a second full bathroom in the basement, (3) remodel the kitchen/dining room area or (4) expand the den. Of course Melanie stuff has to take precedence, but I can see myself doing one of the latter three by the end of 2008.
Needless to say, I worked from home today. I figure I can get in some basic hygiene in tomorrow morning, and then try my luck with going into work. I might take a cab as it's supposed to be very cold. Brr.
God is certainly blessing me with each day I am here. My daughter is fast approaching, and I feel more and more ready with every day. There will be several surprises, but I hope and pray that I can handle them all. Then, after several months, we'll have to decide whether we want to have more kids!
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Lots going on right now. I am thankful that Rebecca, Melanie and I have been given such a supportive family and so many friends that can share in our joy.
Had Rebecca's baby shower earlier today -- the third of four we apparently get to have. We are very blessed in that regard. The first was my work, the second her work, the third family/friends and the fourth our church family/friends. Right now, the living room is entirely filled with stuff we got from family and friends.
Ordinarily, this would annoy Rebecca to no end. However, she is going off to her parents, while the bathroom is being gutted and redone. We had the opportunity to wait until Melanie was a few weeks old, but Rebecca decided she wanted the work done ASAP. The contractors are telling me it'll take about a week to do the work, and hopefully we'll have a nice new mold-free bathroom to enjoy by Friday or Saturday. In the meantime, she'll be at her parents, and she will not be all by herself. Her parents seem a bit worried about that.
Our youth minister's wife agreed to babysit Melanie at her place when she is 6-8 weeks old and Rebecca is ready to go back to work. This is truly a blessing as she loves working with children and was looking for a job in the first place. The two women we interviewed for the nanny position wanted to work under the table -- which might have been fine but we can't really do that.
In the realm of Scholastic Bowl, the folks in the Central Region caught a math error in Match #7, and the folks in Region IV decided they had better things to do than use the VHSL questions I produce. Never mind that the Region has ordered from me every year since I started doing this or that the Region handbook itself says "order from the provider for the state tournament." The tournament was run by a school that considers Academic Hallmarks to be the pinnacle of academic competition. (Never mind that I produce enough questions for their county competition as well.) Hopefully this will get cleared up shortly.
Well, right now there's the Super Bowl to watch. Go Bears!
Had Rebecca's baby shower earlier today -- the third of four we apparently get to have. We are very blessed in that regard. The first was my work, the second her work, the third family/friends and the fourth our church family/friends. Right now, the living room is entirely filled with stuff we got from family and friends.
Ordinarily, this would annoy Rebecca to no end. However, she is going off to her parents, while the bathroom is being gutted and redone. We had the opportunity to wait until Melanie was a few weeks old, but Rebecca decided she wanted the work done ASAP. The contractors are telling me it'll take about a week to do the work, and hopefully we'll have a nice new mold-free bathroom to enjoy by Friday or Saturday. In the meantime, she'll be at her parents, and she will not be all by herself. Her parents seem a bit worried about that.
Our youth minister's wife agreed to babysit Melanie at her place when she is 6-8 weeks old and Rebecca is ready to go back to work. This is truly a blessing as she loves working with children and was looking for a job in the first place. The two women we interviewed for the nanny position wanted to work under the table -- which might have been fine but we can't really do that.
In the realm of Scholastic Bowl, the folks in the Central Region caught a math error in Match #7, and the folks in Region IV decided they had better things to do than use the VHSL questions I produce. Never mind that the Region has ordered from me every year since I started doing this or that the Region handbook itself says "order from the provider for the state tournament." The tournament was run by a school that considers Academic Hallmarks to be the pinnacle of academic competition. (Never mind that I produce enough questions for their county competition as well.) Hopefully this will get cleared up shortly.
Well, right now there's the Super Bowl to watch. Go Bears!
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