Injury Update: Trigger Finger(s)

There’s nothing like a medical condition that makes you feel old while at the same time emasculating you. Because it’s most common in women over 40. Anyway. Basically the tendons are swollen, such that if my left ring finger or right pinky is curled up, the middle knuckle “catches” when trying to extend the finger

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PNC Park: Pirates Win!

Went to PNC for a couple of Pirates games on their last homestand (they lost the second game — stupid Padres). Great park, great atmosphere, seems really well run and their aren’t any potholes in the concourses, which makes it feel like you’re not in Pittsburgh. Coming in from the east (or south), the recommended

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Light Switch Replacement: 15 Photos

Nine switches down, four to go — upstairs. Then I can hit the basement! Good times, good times. bkd

Installing the Kitchen Sub-Floor

And underlayment. The problem with this overall house renovation project is that it’s mostly finish work, which is no fun. Finally got to do something that wasn’t finish work. Now I want to go and frame something or shoot some .22 rounds into concrete maybe. Next house. Not pictured that should’ve been: Dremeling the underlayment

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Screen Shots Educate, Inform

Wanted to share these so I can go ahead and throw them away and clear up valuable hard drive space. Plus my special-order tiles are waiting for me at Home Depot right now and this way I can put off picking them up. These are Actual Screen Shots, captured in the wild on my laptop

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Movie Review: The Road

So I’m not doing the old version any more. It was too hard coming up with haikus for every movie I saw. Not that I see a lot of movies, but still — writing haiku for The Dark Knight et al gets irritating. The Road, then: I liked the book a lot better. I don’t

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National Museum of the Marine Corps: New Addition

Went back to the Marine Corps museum when I was in NoVa a couple weeks ago. They added a couple new areas to it since I went there last year, one on “the early days” (pre WWI) and one on World War I. Now that those areas are open, it’s hard to imagine the museum

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Bedroom Getting on Toward Done-ish

Befores and currents: Other direction. Done: Floor stripped, sanded, and re-finished. Closet hardware removed. Closet wall and ceiling replaced. Ceiling primed and painted. Walls primed and painted (“Barraud House Blue” and “Tyler Stone Medium”). Trim primed and painted. Baseboards cut to fit modern registers. New registers installed. New light fixture installed. New three-prong outlets installed

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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

The best thing about the Udvar-Hazy Center and the one thing that they do that no other flight museum has yet accomplished is that they give the airplanes enough room and enough light and provide visitors multiple viewing angles. There, I said it. I can’t go to an aerospace museum without trying to rank it

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Driving from Pittsburgh to Northern Virginia

And back. Uh, here, this is sort of interesting: The car overstates its mileage by a little bit, but still, 51.1 for a 217-mile ride is probably as good as it’s ever going to get. And, uh — yeah, shoot, I got nothing. Here: There are about 18 different ways to get to the DC/NoVa

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