Mister Hand (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mr_hand) wrote,@ 2009-04-08 11:32:00 |
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Overdue update
Okay, what to say here.
First off, I am completely addicted to this song. I must listen to it about a dozen times a day.
The last time I listened to a song this much, it was this song. Virtually the same song, as you can tell, with nearly identical vocals.
Life is busy. Work is busier than I have ever been, which is great of course, especially when you work freelance and have no guarantees of any new gigs after the current one is over.
It's also good because we really need the money. The basement renovation continues, and the final tally on the work will by high. Originally we figured it would take around $20k to do it. Ha! We were so naive back then. Once we actually sat down and budgeted things we realized it would be considerably more.
Well, I'm sure we could've done it for 20k, but not the way we wanted to. And now that it's almost over, the final cost should come in around 15% higher than our real budget.
And then we have to furnish the sucker. Hooboy.
Anyway, I'll post a video of the thing once it's all done. You'll see it was all worth it.
In other news, the baby learned how to crawl this week. The easy days are officially over.
Still haven't seen the Watchmen. Haven't seen many movies lately, actually. Haven't watched TV either. It's either paid work, or looking after the baby, or working in the basement.
Did happen to watch Lars and the Real Girl the other day. A most excellent movie I couldn't recommend enough. Both hilarious and sad at the same time.
Went to St Lucia last month. Seems like forever ago already. It was an awesome trip, even if I did have to stay up until 3am working every night for the next 2 weeks to make up for it.
We're in Nova Scotia for a week, visiting in-laws for Easter. Going through security at the airport one guard tried to make Claire smile while his buddy did a random body search on me. She's a happy baby, but has such a serious face sometimes. I told the guard that if he did Pat-A-Cake she'd give him a big smile for sure -- she can't resist it -- and he was just about to do it but then said he shouldn't. it would ruin the image of the security checkpoint and he'd lose the necessary aura of fear and intimidation.
The guards did say she was a cute baby, though. They said they see a lot of babies come through, so they know ugly, and she's definitely a cute one.
Travel with a kid is all kinds of fun.
Enough for now.
Okay, what to say here.
First off, I am completely addicted to this song. I must listen to it about a dozen times a day.
The last time I listened to a song this much, it was this song. Virtually the same song, as you can tell, with nearly identical vocals.
Life is busy. Work is busier than I have ever been, which is great of course, especially when you work freelance and have no guarantees of any new gigs after the current one is over.
It's also good because we really need the money. The basement renovation continues, and the final tally on the work will by high. Originally we figured it would take around $20k to do it. Ha! We were so naive back then. Once we actually sat down and budgeted things we realized it would be considerably more.
Well, I'm sure we could've done it for 20k, but not the way we wanted to. And now that it's almost over, the final cost should come in around 15% higher than our real budget.
And then we have to furnish the sucker. Hooboy.
Anyway, I'll post a video of the thing once it's all done. You'll see it was all worth it.
In other news, the baby learned how to crawl this week. The easy days are officially over.
Still haven't seen the Watchmen. Haven't seen many movies lately, actually. Haven't watched TV either. It's either paid work, or looking after the baby, or working in the basement.
Did happen to watch Lars and the Real Girl the other day. A most excellent movie I couldn't recommend enough. Both hilarious and sad at the same time.
Went to St Lucia last month. Seems like forever ago already. It was an awesome trip, even if I did have to stay up until 3am working every night for the next 2 weeks to make up for it.
We're in Nova Scotia for a week, visiting in-laws for Easter. Going through security at the airport one guard tried to make Claire smile while his buddy did a random body search on me. She's a happy baby, but has such a serious face sometimes. I told the guard that if he did Pat-A-Cake she'd give him a big smile for sure -- she can't resist it -- and he was just about to do it but then said he shouldn't. it would ruin the image of the security checkpoint and he'd lose the necessary aura of fear and intimidation.
The guards did say she was a cute baby, though. They said they see a lot of babies come through, so they know ugly, and she's definitely a cute one.
Travel with a kid is all kinds of fun.
Enough for now.
