The Johnson Blog

Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…

Author: eajhnsn1

  • Sigh

    As reported earlier, the sump line was connected incorrectly. Today I took off work and called Construx, expecting a quick conversation followed by them coming out to take care of it. Nope, suprise – they are done. They consider that since it’s functioning, their job is complete. The issue is dead.

    So now we have to make a decision – dig and fix it ourselves or leave it alone. There’s really no advantage to ‘fixing’ it, since it does indeed work and is buried. I guess it’s just anger speaking that wants it done the way they originally said. Not sure what we’ll do yet.

  • Buried!

    After four phone calls and some heated “discussions”, 3 workers from Construx came to the house today and got the sump line buried. Woooo, finally.

    BUT, when I got home I discovered that they connected the buried pipe to the temporary line coming out of the house. They were supposed to attach it to the line coming out of the house that’s like 3′ under ground. So I called Construx a few minutes til 5 and they are supposed to call me in the morning with what they’re planning on doing. It really shouldn’t take but maybe an hour to fix.

    So right now we have a very large area of dirt that they are also going to be putting sod over (I didn’t have to argue for that!) next week. Soooo close to being all done.

    Our furniture arrives in two days!

  • Treo Sync

    I just synchronized my Treo over the Sprint PCS Vision connection. I think it’s pretty damn cool!

  • Tidbits

    Our furniture is set to be delivered this coming Saturday morning. We’re pretty excited, can’t wait to see what bright red looks like in our family room. It’s worth noting that we have 30 days to return the furniture, even if it’s just because we don’t like the color – I don’t expect we’ll have that problem though.

    I’m watching the Cardinals vs. Cubs game as I type this, and Ana is sitting in the chair next to me watching Mary Poppins on her laptop with headphones. She’s apparently having a good time, she’s got a big smile on her face and is laughing periodically. :)

    Construx is supposed to come tomorrow, not holding my breath.

    Over the weekend I started work on a new EJ innovations website, not sure if I’ll actually use the layout or not but I got to learn a lot more about CSS.

    And finally, did a little work on Chef too. Mostly some icons that I took the time to create.

    Damn, Cards just lost.

  • Construx

    Thursday morning I sent a few letters out regarding Construx and their inability to get our sump line buried. One went to the Vice President of Residential at Construx, one to the company we purchased the house through, and one to our real-estate agent. I didn’t expect any of the letters to arrive before the week ended, but yesterday afternoon I received a call from the realtor and she sounds like she’s going to try and help us out. Wooo!

    This weekend is going to be uneventful; so far we have cleaned the house and watered the grass (mowing later probably). Still need to go get a Father’s Day gift too.

  • Laptop Battery

    You may recall that I had my laptop repaired and when it came back, the battery was wrapped and labeled defective, with a warning saying that any damage caused by it would void my warranty. Well I’m sick and tired of being tethered to a power source, and don’t want to spend the money on a new battery. So tonight I unwrapped and plugged the battery in and, as expected, everything’s working fine. Whee, no more power cord.

  • Weekend’s over

    This weekend sure went fast. We didn’t do much, which was really nice, but it has flown by. I’m sitting in bed wishing I didn’t have to work in the morning!

    Chronicles of Riddick turned out to be a very fun movie, despite most of the reviews I read boforehand. I’m actually glad they left it open for a sequel.

    Ana received Big Fish on DVD from her sister last weekend for her birthday, and although Ana’s a huge Tim Burton fan, we hadn’t seen it yet. I tend to not really care for Tim Burton flicks, but we tossed this one in on Saturday afternoon and discovered that it’s a great movie.

    Today was fairly uneventful, did a little coding on Chef, nothing big – just some mindless buf fixes.

  • Dinner and a Movie

    Sitting here in Cheddar’s, having just ordered… shit just got notified they don’t have guinness on tap anymore- no black and tan for me. :(

    anyhow we’re heading to see Chronicle’s of Riddick later on. Pitch Black was awesome, hopefully this won’t disappoint.

  • Carillon Festival

    Ana and I went to the annual Carillon Festival in Washington Park this evening. We were there for about 2 hours – had a picnic and enjoyed the music. If you are interested in what the bells sound like, I have two avi files up at here and here (3MB and 16MB respectively). A few other pictures were also taken.

    And a note about removing my capslock key – no I haven’t gone crazy, I was just getting annoyed today with it. If it behaves on the top of my monitor I may think about putting it back on. Only time will tell.

  • CAPSLOCK…. BEGONE!

    I’ve had enough, and after being inspired by anticAPSLOCK.com I have ripped my Capslock key from my Microsoft Natural Keyboard at work.

    No More!