Sunday, October 26, 2008

What up? Nothing here, it monsooned all day yesterday so that made for a pretty short weekend. I ended up working on my painting project some more and took the door off leading out to the garage with the intent on painting it and replacing the hinges. But after painting it and three trips to Lowes and Home Depot later I had to come to the conclusion that they don't make my hinges any more and that I was stuck using the old ones. It's a metal door so I'm stuck using where the holes are and none of them anywhere lined up to be where I needed them to be. And today I finished that up but after rehanging the door the dang thing won't close and I'm not sure what I am going to do about it yet. Right now the door is just pushed into the jam but it doesn't do me much good as I can't open and close it - it just stays closed. At least it has a fresh coat of paint, the dang thing!

And today was the perfect fall day after yesterday's rain, so I ended up mowing the lawn and bagging up a big bag of leaves. My lawn sprinkler guys come this week to shut the system off and blow it out with air so I guess that I am done with that until spring comes along. Just as good I guess as we have all ready had a few days down below freezing but nothing cold enough to freeze the ground but I don't think that it's going to be much longer for that - and every night this week is forecasted to be right around 32' ..... makes for some scraping of the car windows in the morning if I wasn't too lazy and just remote start it and let it do its thing.

Last week we had our 2009 budget review at our corporate office and that was a little rough, at least we spent the rest of the week making changes to it and then have the owners meeting this Friday at their office I think. And coming back from Fairfax the other afternoon at 5pm reminded me of why there was no way that I was making that drive as it took a good 20 minutes of sitting in traffic just to get out of the town. It would easily be an hour drive each way ..... and I'm very happy with my 15 minute commute to Reston.

Not much else to report though as I said that it was a pretty uneventful weekend around here. I took the Jeep to the grocery store today and still love driving that thing and think that I might need to work on putting on the soft top so that I can drive it through the winter .... it could be kind of fun driving it around in the snow. And I think that's about all that I have to report this day so I hope that things are well with you too. Drop me a line if you need anything, otherwise I hope to be talking with you real soon. Have a great week - and get your costume ready as the big day is just days away!

posted by Scott @ 8:48 PM