Archive for January, 2008
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Mostly Fixed
Front Door Repair
Today I spent all day fixing the door, but I finished before the rain started. My plan worked, but I did one step in the wrong order and had to improvise a work around. I installed the door jamb replacement piece before installing the threshold, and the door jamb blocked the threshold from sliding into place.
I still have about a day of work on this, mostly painting and fixing the trim pieces. My friend, Dave, not only helped me by scraping old caulk and running to the store for more parts, but he saved me several hours by noticing that my cut piece of wood was enough for both replacement pieces. I had planned to sculpt another piece, something that would have cost two hours and may not have even worked at that. Thanks, Dave.
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
But Wait! There’s More.
Rotten Front Door Wood
Last Saturday I spent most of the day figuring out how I was going to fix my front door problem. It started out with the discovery of more rotten wood under my front door to go along with the rotten door jamb wood. Three trips to Home Depot and several hours later I had a plan. Tomorrow I start the plan at the crack of dawn and hope I finish by sundown. And I’m praying it doesn’t rain while I’ve got my front door off.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
More Rot
Front Door Wood Rot
Yesterday I poked a screwdriver into the rotten wood at the bottom of our front door jamb just to see how far in it would go. Ten minutes later I had removed about 4″ of rotten wood and was facing another urgent project.
A trip to Lowe’s indicated that labor and permits to install a new door would exceed $500 and that wouldn’t include the price of a new door. So instead I’ll try to reconstruct a piece of wood to fill in this gap. And until I can get that done I filled it with a few small pieces of wood block and Great Stuff.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Google Sent Me A Holiday Greeting Card!
Google’s Gifts
Really. Not only did they send me a greeting card, they also sent me two gifts. Receiving them reminded me that my Campus Crusade Visa card directed quite a bit of advertising dollars their way this last year, but even at that I see the incredible value they provided in directing spiritually interested students to EveryStudent.com.
One gift is a 2Gb USB drive. The unique thing about it is that it came in the form factor of a credit card.
The other gift was a gift card – of sorts. It’s actually an opportunity for me to direct a donation from Google to any public school classroom project of my choice.
I am quite pleasantly surprised. Well done, Google. Thank you.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
New Cast
Almost free. Today she got a short cast which will give her a lot more freedom. Ironically, she still can’t bend her knee, but in a few days she should regain some flexibility. She got a new graffiti board as well – and a freaky leg of her old cast.
