Fire In The Sky, Fire On The Ground

A very typical sunset here in Idaho.

This was quite a sight right off of the back of the house! I am zoomed in, but I would say the blaze was about 5 miles away. A large grass fire (150 acres) took most of the day to put out and then they were out there all night working on the hot spots. I would get up through out the night and see the flashing red lights moving around. The wind was blowing from behind the house and it was far enough away for me not to be too concerned. Never the less, not something you see every day.

Message From Deb:

The rumors are true…Rick would not allow the grass to grow under my feet for very long. For the past month, I have worn nothing but shorts, t-shirts and flip flops. That will all be changing soon. I will be working at a local CPA firm near downtown Boise. The good news is that I don’t start until September 18th. So I have a few more weeks of shorts and flip flops!

I first applied for this job in May. They were not in too much of a hurry to hire someone, so they waited for me to arrive in Boise and then contacted me for an interview. A week after the interview, I received an offer letter, which I accepted after negotiating a later start date. This will give me time to finalize things in the new house and then take two weeks vacation to Panama in September. I will start the new job a week after we get back from Panama.

Tech Replaces Diamonds As Girl's Best Friend

Women, on average, own nearly as much technology as their male counterparts and would appreciate a digital video camera more than a pair of designer shoes.

Refrigerator Enters House

After 3 weeks of going out to the garage to get anything cold, we moved the fridge into the kitchen! It took a rubber wheeled hand truck, a helper and some grunting and we finally got it in. As you can see there is a little dust to wipe off, but we're in business.

Topless Car Wash

Do you want to see a Sexy Topless CarWash? Play the video!

Friday Night Status

Tonight at 5;30 pm the DSL turned on! I have made Deb's computer the hub so I can get everything from the TiVo to the Vonage to the Xbox 360 to the PSP and every wirelessly connected laptop in the house, to work again! Ahhh, it appears that the internet runs everything anymore. It will be awhile before I get the bugs out of the system but you are free to give the old (360) 944-blah, blah, blah, blah number a try.

Off to get an Iced Mocha, enjoying day NINE of 100 degrees or more here!

Progress

The shop is now sided and waiting for the roof to be put on.

It even comes with windows.

There should be enough room for the toys.

The hot tub is now safe to enter!

We now have gutters.

Move Killed My Computer

I set up the computers yesterday after spending many hours prepping the nerdery. Debs computer went up first, no problems, system booted up the first time. About 2 hours later I was ready to fire mine up... That did not, and still has not happened. Some how the main c: drive (250 gigs worth) died during the packing, transport, or unloading phase of this move. I have tried all of my tricks, done all of my dances, and hugged my 100 gigs worth of backup DVD's that include all of my photos, made not 2 weeks ago just before the packing started. I will recover, but not until DSL comes online this Thursday. Without several files available online, my fresh install won't partition my drive to be any larger than 137 gigs! So, I will just have to rotate my chair ever so slightly and quietly... USE A GIRL'S COMPUTER!

Shop Update

Roof trusses arrive!

The big pour! It took 6 of these trucks to do the whole shop floor and driveway.

Smoothing it out. This whole thing was cured in just hours with the heat we are having. The guys raced to get the texturing and accents in before it was too late.

Walls start to go up!

Ahhh, that looks scary to me!

Now that's starting to look like a shop!

From start to finish on the wood portion of the shop took just two days! Next comes siding and roofing.

The Final Paint Scheme

Well here is the final look of the house. It does have a slight pink tint to the lightest colors but once the green of the landscaping is wrapped around the house the pink will be gone.

Downtown Portland Gets Free Wi-Fi

Hot This Weekend!

103 Degrees?

Watched A Movie Last Night

I asked Deb what is the higher priority: clearing a spot in the garage for her Jeep, or hooking up the TV? The TV won! Of course just hooking up the tube would have been easy, but you need the couches, the rugs, the end tables, the speakers, a sub woofer, wires, lots of wires, some more speakers, "Where's the remote?" As soon as I had the first lines hooked up and any sort of picture, we popped in a DVD, you know, for testing! I managed to connect a few more wires before we both ended up on the couch in a room FULL of packing boxes. There was crap everywhere, it just flat looked like a bomb went off, but we had a movie and a place to sit, so it was OK! What was the movie you ask? Madagascar. When the movie was over, we tripped over the mess and went to bed.

We're Getting There...

The Sitting Room is just missing some knick knacks on the shelf and then we'll call it done.

Guest Bed Room is open for business!

Hot tub has been installed but needs to be drained and moved right under the windows to meet code. It seems the electricians are worried that one of you visitors in a drunken moment will reach up while standing in the tub and grab a hold of an outside light fixture, there by sending all occupants of said Jacuzzi... On to the afterlife.

Note: stairs to back door, one big hunk of concrete I tell ya!

The Idaho Difference - Part One