Category: Useful

  • Bathroom Construction – Part 4

    Well, I’m over the hump.  I now feel as if I’m getting closer to the end, and it feels much better now.  I have finished all the painting (except for the trim), and plan to install the tub surround wall tomorrow evening.  I still have a lot to do, but the bathroom actually looks like…

  • Bathroom Construction – Part 3

    Thanks to Dad and Josh, I’m much closer to having a completed bathroom.  I’ve been burning the candle at both ends, as well as from the middle.  It’s absolutely amazing how fast time goes by when you’re trying to get something done quickly!  I feel as if I’ve still got a week’s worth of work…

  • Bathroom Construction – Part 2

    So, we skipped the part about sanding the walls.  We just replaced the ones that would have require sanding.  We’ve done a lot of work, but there’s still a bunch to do.  Dad and Josh have been here helping me all day for the past two days. We got the tub replaced fairly early on…

  • Bathroom Construction – Part 1

    Dad and I started dismantling our bathroom this afternoon… well, I guess yesterday afternoon now. We got the bathtub surround walls down… they were much heavier than I thought they’d be. We found that there was more work than originally intended, but also found some positive things in the process. There was absolutely no indication…

  • Taurus 24/7 Pro

    I like the features and quality of this pistol.  It holds 17 rounds in the clip. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDo0ua2IMp8&rel=1] I’d hope I’d never have to shoot it at all, much less 17 rounds, but it’d make me a little more confident knowing I could stand up for myself a little longer in an emergency.

  • iPod Hard Drive Replacement

    I recently had the misfortune of losing the hard drive in my iPod.  It was about 1 year and two weeks old, so the warranty was expired when it first started giving me problems.  I ran some hard drive utilities, such as SpinRite, and got it back in good enough shape to work.  Then it…

  • Blurb

    I saw a video podcast today that had a short segment about the site blurb.com.  This site provides software called BookSmart to download and install on your computer.  BookSmart will allow you to create a book in a number of different sizes.  Once you have finished creating your book, you can actually have it published and printed in…