removed the vanity

My father-in-law came over this morning and we removed the old vanity in the bathroom. This has to be done before the company can come in next week to do the work on the shower.

This work turns out to be well worth it. The old drain pipes were metal and they had rusted out pretty bad on the inside over the 30+ years that the house has been around. I put my thumb through one of the p-trap pieces when I was taking it apart this morning.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It is a great time for family, food, and, of course, football. I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday!

Ready for installation

The company who is redoing the shower called today to let us know that the custom built shower is ready for installation. Because of my work schedule and the holidays, however, it will not be installed until December 2nd.

I will be working the Friday after Thanksgiving on the vanity. It has to be removed before the shower can be installed. We will be replacing the old vanity with a new one that includes drawers and a new one-piece Corian top with molded sink.

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30 GB iPod with Video

I purchased a new iPod earlier this week. I got the 5th generation iPod with video (30 GB). This thing is great. Compared to my iPod mini, I can put all of my current music library, podcasts, and videos onto the iPod and still have 15 GB free.

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How to stop Hollywood and Congress from trampling on your constitutional rights

How to stop Hollywood and Congress from trampling on your constitutional rights by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Earlier today, I wrote a blog entry entitled The day the broadcast died. It talks about how the RSS subscription protocol has been married to TV programming in a way that could completely disintermediate the current channels of TV program distribution. In response, you should expect the entertainment industry to pursue every avenue at its [...]

Bathroom renovation

My wife and I recently found some water damage on the underside of our floor when we were in the basement. We found that our shower had just started leaking. Because of this, we have decided to renovate the bathroom.

The first step was to get someone in to give us an estimate on completely redoing the shower area. It is a domed shower done in tile currently. We are having someone come in who is going to cover the existing tile in acrylic. It will be one smooth surface all the way around including the ceiling.

We went to our local Lowe’s tonight and got some pricing on a new vanity and basin. We will be taking out the old vanity and installing the new one ourselves.

Everything should look pretty good when we are finished with it.

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