Month: February 2013

Emperor’s New Clothes – Literally

Emperor's New Clothes

Dumpster Day is Friday. It’ll be placed in front of the garage for ease of use, so if we want to use the Miata during the BKR it needs to spend a month outside. To keep the neighborhood felines from leaving footprints or anything else behind on car I decided to buy a nice little car cover. As long as it doesn’t get to dirty or damaged I should be able to recoup around 50% of my purchase price by selling it once the dumpster is gone.

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1199

Some Final Preparations

A week ago with the cabinet guy we decided to make our normal depth refrigerator appear to be counter depth by bumping out the cabinet next to it. That meant we needed to order a longer than 24″ panel to finish off the left side. When we left cabinet guy he said he would get it written up and he would call me and get my credit card over the phone. He was late for his next appointment. The call never came.

Mid-week Donna called the store and our cabinet guy wasn’t there, but some other cabinet guy said he thought that our cabinet guy probably ordered it and used our card that was on file from the big order. Nothing ever hit our card, so today we went over to Lowes to straighten things out. Once again, our cabinet guy was not there, so back up cabinet guy spent 20 minutes redoing what our cabinet guy did last week. Only he followed through, he ordered the panel and I went up front and paid for it. Now hopefully it will get here in a timely manner.

I then came home and finished up the last real purchase needed for the BKR, under cabinet lights.

Tonight I removed all the doors off the old cabinets, while Donna pulled out the contents and placed the stuff in three piles; one in our makeshift kitchen in the dining room, another in a pile for Goodwill and the rest in the trash can. Our next door neighbor has a couple rentals places and he said he could possibly find use for the doors, so they are now stacked up on the back deck along with the interior doors and ancient screen doors that were stashed in the attic and the two of us comically removed from there on Saturday. If he doesn’t take them, they will go in the dumpster after it arrives next Friday.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1198

Pulp-O-Mizer

Pulp-O-Mizer_Cover_ImageThanks io9 for pointing me to this spectacular time waster – Create your own pulp magazine covers with the Pulp-O-Mizer Once you have finished devising your magazine you can cheap out and just download the low-res image like I did or you can get it printed on a poster, on a coffee mug, an iPad cover, etc.

After you’ve made a magazine cover, or not, check out Retropolis, the art of the future that never was where you can get all kinds of products that capture that 30’s & 40’s vibe of what they envisioned today would look like.

Kitchen Before Photos

Here is our soon to be remodeled kitchen. The cabinets are original to the house. As is the yellow tile counter top and back splash. The floor is currently covered in dark blue commercial grade carpet and there is at least 2 layers of vinyl under that, who knows what is further down. Currently the dishwasher is the old fashioned manual kind.

If all goes according to plan in about a dozen days this will be an empty room, maybe even just a skeleton. D-Day is February 11th.