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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

finishing our basement

We've decided to finish our unfinished basement. Boy is it ever EXPENSIVE! We had entertained the notion that I would scrounge up some volunteers and try to finish it ourselves, save a bit o' money and have it be done when it gets done. But the idea of spending much of what little 'free' time I had was not very appealing. Not to mention that it might take me a LOOOONNNGGGGGG time to finish, and that I might not do a good job.

So we hired a contractor to do the job in a fraction of a fraction of the time -- hooray! They started on July 12 and quoted us completion in about 6 weeks. I know that they're not going to get it done in 6 weeks, but a couple of extended weeks aren't gonna matter much to us.

So here are 2 pics of what's going on down there (click on images to see larger image with descriptions):



More pics to come...

blogosphere

After a very quick google on 'blog statistics' here are 2 links that will shed some insight into how big the 'blogosphere' is:
http://www.blogcensus.net/
http://www.dijest.com/bc/

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

a phenomenon

I was just setting up my fantasy football blogspot (teamKESTRAL)... and realizing that I'm not much of a journaler, I found myself curious as to how these blogs will end up, say, in a year or 2 or 5 or 10. What an interesting phenomenon that so many people would open the door to their lives and share it - however much or little! (I've gotta look up some stats about this.)