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.

• 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.

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.

Weve gotten a quick preapproval for a home loan, and were gonna look around the South San Francisco area for pre-foreclosures…Hopefully with these pre-foreclosures, we will get about 20%-40% off the market value for the house, and were looking for something in the range of $500k-$600k. But we will see. Wish us luck!

http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/product.html

Not bad at all. Its small and light. This is way better than my sony vaio slim laptop that I sold for 325 bucks. I just bought one to replace my sony vaio p3 850MHz. Only down side is the shipping time. 4-6 weeks?

Concerned about fraud? Check out the response from the merchant company responsible for handling the credit card transactions for the laptop.

http://www.2checkout.com/community/support/topic.php?id=214&page&replies=4#post-717

As well, if you have ING Direct, you may also open a traditional IRA to maximize the deductions on your taxes…currently you can add up to $4,000 if youre young enough…However, if you have a retirement plan sponsored by your employer, your tax deductions may actually be minimized. In that case, if you fall within the right income bracket, you should probably just open up a Roth IRA instead. Also, if you use ING to open an IRA, they have no-load or commission-free mutual funds to put your IRA to good use. I think I have to open mine tonight…

I cut my hand today.

“There are a number of sites that describe in detail how a bulb works. HowStuffWorks and How Things Work both do a thorough job of explaining the physics of this watershed invention.

To summarize: electrical current flows through the bulb’s filament, a long, super thin, double coil wire made of the metal tungsten. This interaction creates extreme heat around 4,000 degrees and starts a process that causes the atoms to release extra energy in the form of light photons.

At such a high temperature, though, some tungsten atoms will fly off and collect on the inside of the bulb’s glass. This loss of tungsten is slowed but not prevented by adding inert gases, typically argon. The argon atoms rebuff the tungsten atoms when they collide, so that some tungsten atoms rebound and rejoin the solid filament. But eventually, as more and more atoms are lost, the filament starts to disintegrate.

The filament is further compromised by the rapid heating and cooling of the wire when the bulb is turned on and off. This creates areas of stress almost like in a paper clip that’s repeatedly bent. Eventually, this stress, coupled with the loss of tungsten atoms, weakens the filament enough to break. And that’s when it’s time to fork over another couple of bucks to GE.”

taken from: http://ask.yahoo.com/20041228.html

www.adrianandgenese.com/gallery

Anyways, now its time to learn how to work with this wordpress blogging software. Apparently I can embed the image gallery that we have into wordpress and make it work together. That will be cool, but maybe it will be too cluttered. Anyways. Time to go to sleep now.