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Who knew? (Long excited rant follows:) I get a fair amount of enjoyment out of organizational challenges, and a nice spreadsheet has its appeal. But I've just discovered something even better ... an easy app! Some of you may know I've been getting into this web design thing more lately. More organizational thrills, woohoo files! The hosting service I like (Wix) has a bunch of apps that they vet and recommend. I like the vet bit (no kitties involved). And my bank manager has a

In a house. With Melissa yet again! Someone's bar in their house. Which started out with what we suspect was a DIY job of red cherry stain. Yihh. So we picked up the doors and Terry and I said "sigh" and started on that whole process thing again. Clean, sand, clean, spray, sand. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. And what do you know but it actually works? So now when they have parties for chiropractors their bar can rock along with their awesome sound system. We boogied thru the last c

Its pretty cool out there, especially if getting there only involves sitting on one's duff and remembering when to stand up and exit the small room. So I've been getting a little nap, watching a few accounting videos, having another wee nap... and making the occasional flying exit off the train. This is due to the fact that I've been traipsing around the Chicago area working for different people - excellent fun! So if you have friends or family in the Far Off Lands (Napervil

And a dress-up costume to match. Even before Halloween. ​ Oooodles and oodles of doors. To clean and sand and wipe down and paint and do-it-all-over-again. It's a jolly good thing that some people like doing stuff like that, isn't it? I like the spraying. Terry likes cleaning. Big thrills department in the Zen of Spraying. Let alone those nice drying racks behind me! This is in Melissa's garage, a wonderful spray booth that may get returned to her family for regular garage u

What fun, and we even managed to get the right house! Our first step was to greatly alarm the neighbors. Please oh please tell me that is not the color they plan to paint their garage door! 'salright. Have no fear. 'twas just the first step. Then we come back with the stains and make pretty. This is Melissa ... I've been off in Naperville & Barrington for the last few weeks on various jobs with Melissa. Her company is "Bella Muri" (www.bellamuri.com), and if you have friends

It starts out as wood, then some clever person carves it and makes pretty, it is painted a good solid black color (goes with everything) and sold to someone who really appreciates the great design and humungoid size of this mirror (its about 5' x 8'). But isn't actually so keen on the good solid black color. So along comes Melissa, and I got to help a bit, and I took a photo to share because it is pretty funny and cool at the same time. Its not all solid black any more. No st