Lots of action at the house over the last week or so. Last weekend The Great Floor Adventure began. I had picked up a saw earlier in the week, the boards had been sitting and getting used to the temperature and humidity, so it was time to get started. So far, it's going well. The "hallway":http://flickr.com/photos/feralboy/28404845/ is mostly done, and right now I've got about 3/4 of the one bedroom finished. The only tricky parts are going through "doorways":http://flickr.com/photos/feralboy/28404974/, and cutting the weird leftover bits for the short distance to a wall. Putting down the big boards in an open area is like nothing now. Long board, long board, measure the end, flip, cut, start the next row with the leftover piece. I'm hoping to maybe finish the one bedroom today. It's very satisfying to see the progress, especially considering how crappy/smelly the carpet that was there was!

In other house news, I got a random call from the cable company the other day. I figured they were going to ask why my "bandwidth usage":http://feralboy.com/log/archives/001523/ was so crazy, but it turns out they just wanted to offer me "free" cable? How's that? Well, they'd give me ultra-basic service for $10 a month, and take $10 off my internet bill. I asked the rep why they would do that, and he said (quite honestly, I think) "If you have more services with us, it makes it harder for you to leave." Fair enough. The antennae reception is crappy, so I figured why not? Contractor guy came, and said "Hey, you don't have a trap on your line, so when I flick it on, you're going to have extended basic. I won't tell anyone if you won't."

So now I'm enjoying about 100 channels of crap for free. I think I had forgotten how useless live TV was. My "beloved TiVo":http://feralboy.com/matt/tivo/ is still in storage, but the one problem with me plugging it in here is that I don't have a phone line in the house, so no way to call and get updates. Guess I'll have to bust open the cover again and add "Ethernet":http://www.9thtee.com/turbonet.htm support!