Dragon V's Ramblings

it's snowing again. I just took this picture from the door of the office out to the jobsite and my truck. When I got here this morning there was no snow on the ground, right now it shows no sign of easing up and in fact has just gotten heavier....

Brrrr....

It's been snowing all day.

I planned ahead and had all of the necessities for myself and my critters on hand so I didn't have to leave the house.

I spent most of the day puttering around the house and going outside for brief bits with the dogs while they got used to the whole snow thing. It looks like tomorrow will be more of the same.

Click below if you want to see a few random pictures from our Satuday snow day:

I was a bit ambivalent when I first saw the trailers for Kick Ass but this one has me genuinely eager to see the movie:



Oh, and in other movie news, I will also admit that after seeing the A-Team trailer I'm kind of looking forward to that movie too. Not because it's going to be a cinematic masterpiece, but because I've tried watching the old TV shows (that I loved growing up) and they're really really painful to watch. I seriously doubt they could make a movie that was worse than some of those episodes and I'm halfway thinking they might make a fairly amusing popcorn movie

It was a long day puttering around the house but the electrician made some major progress. He got rid of all the old fuses so now almost the entire house has been upgraded to circuit breakers. He'll be back tomorrow to sort out a few more wiring issues and after that I'll be ready to re-do the laundry room and add the utility sink I'd been wanting to.

It's great seeing my house projects moving in the right direction (i.e. completion). The only down side is that I'm likely to have to spend a decent chunk of time in the crawl space tomorrow as I sort out the plumbing for the washing machine and utility sink. Oh and I'll have to knock down a wall before I do that. So yeah, it's looking like a busy day.

Two days down and no accidents yet. Here's hoping they keep this up :-)

Even though the addition isn't ready I went ahead and dog-proofed (I hope) what was in there, broke out the one spare dog bed I had left (Saks is hard on dog beds... note to self go buy another one tomorrow) and cranked up the electric heater in the family room before letting the girls in for the night.

It's been getting into the 20s lately and its supposed to get even colder this week so I decided to suck it up and see how they handled sleeping indoors. Hopefully they won't make a huge mess (I fed them this morning for this very reason) but even if they trash the carpet a bit that's going away soon anyways so it's not a big deal. The really nice thing will be later this week when the carpenters come back out here and finish up the addition and put up the insulation. Then the back of the house will stop feeling like an ice box and the dogs will be able to learn to sleep inside before I put in the wood floors back there.

They're currently confined to the "family room" area since Zhaan really can't handle stairs anymore and Saks has never been properly house trained, but she's probably more realiable than Zhaan nowadays (Zhaan will not go outside if it's rainy, wet, etc... so that's a pain). Plus I really do like the wood floors in the rest of the house ;-).

.... Pause ....

Well, they've been in there for about 20 minutes so far and I haven't heard a peep so I'm going to risk it and go upstairs to bed. Wish us luck!

I'm about to try something which may or may not work out well, but which should make a couple of members of my household happy.

Bleh, I got to spend my last long weekend mostly sick. I did go out and do my last 2 student interviews this afternoon but I finished those up and headed straight back home so I could veg and nap some more. I should be ok enough for work tomorrow, but really, why do I always get sick on weekends (especially long weekends)? I haven't used a sick day since the early part of last year and in some ways it sucks.

Eh, oh well. At least I did get to stay inside and away from the bitterly cold wind for the most part so that was good and I should have nice warm clean clothes for work by morning so that'll make trudging out less painful.

However I think it is now time to climb into bed and enjoy soft clean warm sheets against a cold winter night. The cats approve.

Well, it's officially 2010 and I just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone. I had a low key night at home last night but that's ok since I'm fighting a slight cold. It was nice to just hang out and not have to go anywhere.

Today I went out to Norfolk so I could get my iPhone replaced (it had an unfortunate run in with a floor or two and perhaps some walls). Aside from that though I spent the day being a slug and not doing much of anything and it was great. I really don't want to get knocked out by being sick and I've been really close to coming down with something since Christmas.

Hopefully a weekend of chilling at home will help me get better and avoid really getting sick.

Merry Christmas to all my friends and family from my prehistoric airport friend (who looks suspiciously like he's about to take a bite out of the holiday decorations).

So far the weather and I have managed to miss each other (it looks a little dicey there on Wednesday) and I'm having a great Christmas. I hope everyone else is having good time this holiday season and spending time with the people they love and care about.