long weekend..

it was a very long weekend, but productive. Friday night saw us finishing up the preparation work on all the walls upstairs and downstairs, and then we wallpapered all saturday. The living room and entryway and hallway all look amazing - great colors, great border - all good :-) We even got behind the entertainment unit! I also finished off the downstairs preparation - filled and sanded the holes in the wall and removed all the backing paper from the previous border and washed the walls of glue and crap. It's all ready for my lovely bride to clear the room and paint :-) Apart from that, the weekend was bits and pieces - cracker barrel for lunch on saturday, home depot and target, aborted attempt to see "A knight's tale" (thwarted by session times), mowing lawn, thunderstorms and other bits and pieces. Oh, and Monday is garbage day, so it was clean and pitch. Astute readers may well notice a large increase in the domesticity quotient and a lessening of the geek index. This is by design, trust me, and is not a permanent fixture. In the past, I've geeked at work for long hours, then gone home and geeked for even more hours until I fell asleep. I've taken a solid decision to put my need to hack and experiment and Do Stuff aside for domestic replacements to try and balance my life a little better, especially as it Isn't Just Me any more. What this really is is a break from the creative process on How To Do Things and a chance to refresh my brain so that I can come back to the geeking and make lots of good things happen. Ideas need to be taken care of in the same way that the body needs rest and the house needs maintenance.