A change of gears, a new perspective. ...ok, enough of that, we're going Back... to the FUTURE!

Sitting in the recliner, nursing sore fingers, I can't help but wonder what happened today.  Yet another episode of some HGTV show flashes in the background, distracting from the task at hand.  Scrolling through the pictures of the day's work is reassuring.  "Yes, work did get done."  I try to convince myself, despite the sour end of the day...

--8/3/14 - 6:48 am--
Waking up earlier that desired, rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I steal a glance at the clock displayed on the cable box.  "Damn," I said, wanting to get another hour or two of sleep.  She tosses a bit, stirring in the covers, not quite ready to get things going.

--7:12 am--
Throwing back the covers, it's time to get things going.  Brush two minutes, pills, and struggle with the realization that we need to get to work.  The comics delay things for another minute or two, fighting off the inevitable.

Eventually, we gather ourselves in the car and head over.  Notorious B.I.G gets things going during the commute.  Let's do this.

--9:40 am--
I get dropped off at the house to pick up where we left off the day before: replacing outlets.  Kelly grabs a few things from the house and heads to Home Depot.  These trips are tolerable, returning things, knowing that'll help the bottom line.  Of course, there are things to pick up, too, but still, it feels nice to take stuff back.

While she's gone, I knock out the two outlets in the master closet.  A dead roach makes an appearance from the first outlet, another fine eye-opener.  Following that, I pace around a bit, wondering where to go next.  U2 serenades from the tiny clock radio, Bono flowing through "Where the Streets Have no Name".  Grabbing the drill, i decide to tackle some cabinetry.

Still puzzled from our assembly issues from the day before, I wander our spare parts to find some un-identified supports that would fit nicely.  Wanting confirmation, I delay and work on some of the other cabinets.  Putting in some doors, drawers...  easy, quick work.  Satisfying in getting something done.

All right, the old writer is back.  I tried writing it like non-fiction, instead of a blog, and I just can't get through it quick enough.  It was probably boring anyway, but it was a decent enough exercise.  Hey, at least I distracted you from real work for another couple minutes.  You're welcome.

Once those cabinets were completed, we scrounged around a bit and found some lost parts and knocked out the corner cabinets.  Turns out we DID need to use those screws, that odd wood piece, and that strange metal square.  Who knew?  With that, we finished the cabinets in the kitchen!

Figures 2-3 (or is it 1-2 since the whole weird writing style thing?).  Captured Swedish cabinets!

Well, technically, the cabinets aren't "done done" since they don't have any hardware.  But, all the doors, drawers (soft close, thanks!  I thought about taking video, but then, I thought that if you really wanted to see what soft close drawers looked like in this house that you need to find a hobby), shelves and such are in, so they're totally usable.  Perhaps I'll tackle the handles next weekend while the boss (Hi Wife!) is out of town.  Doubt she'll give me enough leash to get that done, though.

While I was tackling the oh-so-exciting installation of outlet cover plates (which really shouldn't be as hard as it was, but I knew I'd never hear the end of it if the receptacles weren't at least close to square to the ground), Kelly was making the master closet even more functional.  Hard to believe that's possible since it already had outlets.  ...and the FIREBALL OF DEATH!  But, the boss did put in a shelf which will hopefully hold up whatever is put on it.  There's a little concern about that since there isn't much for anchoring the supports, but hey, not my problem (yup, I'm a butt).

Figure 3.  Fireball of death scopes out another victim

The electrical work continued in the hallway with another boob light installation.  Thankfully, the boob light fit around the big house fan vent, because if not, we were going to have to splurge for some frou-frou light instead of $7.98.  Boob lights FOREVER!

Figure 4.  Yup, that's $8 that saves $40

After that, we spent most of our time cursing at a goofy wiring job in the kitchen.  Our overhead not-can-light light there requires more electrical know-how than I (we?) apparently have.  I just can't seem to figure out how to wire a combination three way switch to the light to another three way switch with 14-2 cable.  If you can get me a wiring diagram by Saturday, I'd appreciate it, kthxbai!

Well, that's the sour note that we ended on.  Unable to get the best of the light's wiring.  Oh well, I guess we'll try again next week.  OH WAIT, NO "WE" WON'T AS SOMEONE (Hi Wife!) IS ABANDONING SOMEONE ELSE NEXT WEEKEND TO GO CELEBRATE HER MOTHER'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS!  How selfish!  Seriously though, congrats Mom-in-Law on the Award.

Totally unrelated to the Garvin goings-on, but still pretty sweet, check out this that we saw.  Ok, a little backstory, with a touch of the humblebrag...  So in our neighborhood (this is the humblebraggy part), we get to see some pretty sweet cars from time to time.  But, this is the first time that one of these has been seen in the wild:

Figure 5.  Where's Doc, McFly?

Yeah, that's a Delorean.  To my knowledge Winter Park has no clock tower, and I've never seen Marty McFly or Doc wandering the streets, but I'm on it.  The weblog will be updated accordingly.