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.

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.

I logged into Sprint’s website yesterday and discovered they are still mischarging me for Sprint PCS Vision usage. In short, their computer system doesn’t recognize me as having a Vision plan, so all of my data traffic from the phone is being charged at a pretty high rate. This time around it was for $118. Not too shabby. A quick call to customer service (who have been great, btw) got my account credited once again. I guess I’ll keep checking the bill every month until I know I’m recognized properly in their system.

This morning when I woke up there was a truck out front with a couple guys sitting in the cab. The truck looked as if it belonged to some utility company and after a few minutes it drove away. I first thought it had something to do with the moron who cut our power on Friday so I didn’t think much of it. When I was leaving for work I went out and noticed they had placed a little green flag in the yard marked “Sewer”. Hmmm, ok..whatever. When I arrived home after work I took a walk around our wonderful trench and noticed some brand new spray paint on the grass, indicating where the power line is! So it looks like Contrux may have actually called Julie before digging but forgot the little detail of actually waiting for the utilities to be marked before starting to work. I couldn’t help but chuckle at that.

We placed our order for a couch and loveseat today. At the store they only have three colors on hand (two shades of brown and a green) and we decided on the red, so it will be 8-10 weeks before they arrive. I was pretty disappointed when I learned about the long delay, but we think the red is going to look very good in our family room. It’s definitely going to be a change from what we are used to, but it should contrast the beige walls and light carpet quite nicely.

I think this is the model we purchased, so picture it in red.

The Construx guy unexpectedly showed up today. He finished up the work he started in the bathroom and also painted over a couple smudges on the walls from when we were moving in.

So here’s what it looks like on the Treo. These screenshots also show the new functionality I just hooked up tonight, the ability to just search for recipes that can be made with ingredients onhand in the inventory. Next up at some point will be to show in the recipe how much of a given ingredient you need to buy before being able to make it.

It has been a busy day for us today. It started with us visiting The Old Capital Art Fair in downtown Springfield. Ana has gone numerous times in the past but it was my first visit. We both saw several pieces that would look great in our dining room and reading room but our upcoming furniture purchase is taking precedence. Even without buying anything, it was nice walking around and viewing the wide variety of art.

Next on our agenda was furniture shopping. I have no idea how many couches and chairs we sat in today, but it’s a lot more tiring than either of us expected. So far we think we know where we will be purchasing from and, suprisingly, we are leaning towards a very bold red set for the family room. The biggest problem we are having is figuring out how we want to set the room up: one couch, two chairs, no end table? one couch, one loveseat, end tables; would an ottoman fit?

A relaxing evening at home with a movie is planned, probably with a side of C#.

This morning someone from Construx was to show up and repair the chipping paint above the shower. He showed up ontime this time, and said he was also going to be working on the sump line.

Because Construx can’t communicate for squat, I had to tell him what needed to be done. Easy enough, right? I call into work and say that I’ll probably be in at around noon. Noon has come and gone, there are quite a few holes in the yard due to the approach used to find the end of the line (dig hole, look for pvc, dig another hole, …), and I have called into work to take the rest of the day off.

Here’s a nice arial view of the worker’s ‘debugging’

If you want a detailed description of what has transpired today, feel free to ask. I’ll spare everyone else.

Just got back from the yearly Cardinal game with work. We were in a luxury box along the firstbase line, had a great time. One thing’s for sure, large quantities of tequila = large headache. Been a while since I’ve had a hangover, time for large glasses of water.

For an unknown reason, I had to hard reset my Treo today. It did the thing where you can’t turn Wireless Mode back on until you soft reset it. When I did this, it went into a cycle of boot, reboot, boot, reboot… really sucked and I wish I knew what caused it. I’ll have to keep my eye on this.