Some things I learned while renovating our home.

1. Be prepared to not get anything done that you want done for the day.

2. Be prepared to find nasty crap in the walls, floors, ceilings, and plot of land your home sits on.

3. Be prepared to take 4 hours on a project that should only take about 1 hour.

4. Be prepared to buy lots of things you think you need to get such as doors, and tools, only to return them to the store later.

5. Rushing to complete a project is like dooming yourself to torture in the near future.

6. Things will never look the same once youve done the work yourself. You notice the smallest imperfection in the same work all around you in restaurants, homes, and hotels (ig, tiling).

7. DO your homework before believing what others say you should do.

8. Eat at regularly scheduled times during the project.

9. A truck is very useful. So is a shop vac.

10. Dont be cheap, itll end up costing you more in the long run. This is especially true for tools.

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You know that show, “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?” This is a 5th grade math problem that kept me and genese scratching our heads for about 20 minutes. We eventually had it solved, but used totally different approaches to find the same solution.

• There are 7 girls on a bus.
• Each girl has 7 backpacks.
• In each backpack, there are 7 big cats.
• For every big cat there are 7 little cats.

Question: How many legs are there in the bus?

If you think you know the answer, download this excel spreadsheet and enter in the answer as the password. If it opens, you know you are smarter than a 5th grader.

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Happy New Year!

BTW, AIM is much smarter than I thought. It automatically opens up ports on your firewall in order to connect to another person using AIM. However, this can be problematic if your router doesnt quite handle it well enough. Two days ago I was able to connect with video im to another person, but just yesterday, I noticed the open video option unavailable. In fact, it was totally missing from AIM.

After uninstalling/reinstalling AIM, drivers, etc. I decided to check my firewall. It turned out that the ports aim was using were not released properly and the AIM software upon start recognized that the ports were unavailable and thus disabled the feature. Neat actually. So I rebooted the router and restarted AIM and the option to use video im returned. Who knew AIM was firewall aware.

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