Before & After

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Rebate Processor Needed – Great Pay

I have been hovering around at a level of 55 spam emails a day here at work, but over the weekend it spiked. One hundred on Saturday and 150 on Sunday. They must really need a lot of Rebate Processors because of the 250 spams I received, one hundred and forty six were promising great pay to do that job, about one every 16 minutes over a 41 hour span.

All of them look like their email addresses were randomly generated in the manner of FirstnameLastname@subdomain.domain.com. Neat but not enough to sneak by Postini.

10 More

Of course we couldn’t come straight home, we did a loop down around Lake Moultrie, slingshoting us out of the pull of low country gravity and propelling us back to Aiken, while grabbing ten more Post Office pictures. The weekend’s tally, 24 Post Offices in 600 miles.

We did miss one town on the north shore of the lake, Pineville (another missing map.) I thought it was because we already had a picture of that PO, but that wasn’t really possible because there was no way we could have been there before. We have been to Pineland and Pinewood previously and we did go to Pinopolis today. Where I took this picture:

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Pedro Sez 75,000 Crappy Trinkets Available Here

The Emperor passed through the 75,000 mile mark just east of Columbia on I-20.

After breakfast this morning we hopped on the interstate and headed east not getting off until somewhere north of Florence on I-95. We then spent the rest of the day traveling the back roads of rural northeast South Carolina nabbing photos of Post Offices. We ended up the day with 14 captured. We even had to stop at a library in a city along the way to find a PO we had a map for (we were looking north of town instead of south)and one that we didn’t (even though I have an image of it on the thumbdrive.)

The rude employees at a Subway in Lake City did us a favor. After we walked out in disgust, we ended up at a Mexican place, La Bamba, that was terrific. Their Carnitas were scrumptious and the ice cold Dos Equis was much better than any fountain drink available at the other place.

Tomorrow morning — Cinnamon Bun.

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Hurley Is A Citizen Too

Just after lunch today there was a knock at the door. We weren’t expecting anyone, but turns out that was wrong. When Donna opened the door there was the unlikely duo of Shannon Rutherford and Hugo Reyes. I knew Jack was a Sox fan, but I was surprised to find a native son of Santa Monica, CA was too. I had bid victoriously.

Here’s an item I won’t be victorious on — I don’t have quite enough cash in my PayPal account — David Ortiz “Yankees Curse” Jersey

I primered the the inside of the newly remodeled bathroom and then hung a towel rack, the TP holder and the shower curtain rod. We started to shuffle things around in preparation for moving our bedroom to the other end of the house. We cleaned out the two closets by carrying a dozen boxes up into the attic. Sunday night we’ll move the bed and our clothes to complete the transition.

Broke down and washed the car tonight, even though there is a chance of afternoon thunder showers tomorrow. Pine pollen season is all but over and it has been 6 weeks since the last wash, so I figured it was time. Plus we are going on a Post Office Safari tomorrow and the Emperor always like to put his best face forward even though he isn’t the primary photographic subject.

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TGIT

The only thing left to do here Mr. Contractor Man is to put in the bottom molding around the outside of where the new wall is. He is having trouble getting a match for the shape. Apparently they stopped making that style about 25 years ago. We told him just get close, once it is all painted no one is going to notice. Oh yeah, he has to get an electrician in to wire up the exhaust fan.

He will start on the other bathroom on Monday. When that one is done I will paint that bathroom before we move back to that side of the house, then I will come back to this bathroom and paint it along with the bedroom. The bead board will get a coat of gloss white, the top molding of the bead board will get a gray to sort of match the tile and the upper wall will get a light blue. The bedroom will get a slightly darker blue with white trim. I haven’t picked out the colors for the other larger bathroom yet, I guess I’ll wait until it is done…

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Almost There

Finish the toilet, hook it and the sink up, hang the mirror and the new light fixture, then a final skim coat the smooth out the last of the wall and the contractor will be done. Then it will be up to us to paint and hang a shower curtain rod, some towel bars and the TP holder for the final finishing touches.

And speaking of remodeling, I’m working on a new theme for here. Same sort of color scheme and what not, but it will have 3 (count ’em, that’s one more than two) columns. Big news is it will be widget ready! Not that I have any widgets picked out, or for that matter even know what a widget is, but I’m going to be a widgety fool.

We’ve got to clean up the bedroom with the newly remodeled bath in it on Friday, so we can move in to it, because starting Monday the other bath gets hammered on. We are off on Saturday for some Post Office hunting and will be back late Sunday, causing work on the theme project to be light over the weekend. So you may not see the new look for awhile, heck if I keep dawdling, I may end up losing interest and you’ll never see it.

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