From the Desk of the Liquid Engineer

I’ve really fallen off with the blogging, haven’t I? I’d like to say I have a good excuse, and while I have been pretty busy, there’s really nothing that stopped me from posting a few sentences here and there. In my defense, I’ve been feeling a bit boring lately. I shall endeavor to be less so. As an act of penance, I will entertain you with pictures that may in fact be boring.

We’re moving into our new house today. For obvious reasons, I’m not going to say much about it or where it is, but I will say I’m pretty excited, especially since I’ll actually have my own home office now (and not just a corner of the bedroom dedicated to my vast swaths of technology), and a swimming pool. Really, really looking forward to the latter–it’ll be great to exercise and work on my mobility in a way I just can’t do on dry land. We’re doing hardwoods (done) and painting/wallpapering (not done), so the usual stories of the trivails of home renovation apply. Not going to go into it save to say it’s not nearly as much fun as Home and Garden Television would have you believe. Perky, crazy people with sledgehammers don’t show up in vans and trucks and cavort merrily around, for one thing.

The house we got didn’t actually have a pool, so we’re putting one in. I’ve been sure to take pictures of every stage of construction, because I’m a geek and and a photographic record of the birth of our magnificent water hole. I was going to do a series of posts for each stage, but then I realized that was kind of redundant, as I’ve already got them neatly organized into a collection of photosets over at Flickr, complete with color commentary, so I figure I’ll just link to that. Behold! (Obviously, it’s not finished yet. We’re waiting on the inspection of the fence, not shown in these photos, before the final plastering (laying of the visible surface of the pool). In the meantime, to help you visualize, it’ll be a color called Black Sand. The pool itself is eight-by-thirty-six feet. The whole thing should have a pond-like ambiance.

And while I’m at it, take a gander at this awesome couch we got. Cool, eh? I suggest clicking through to get a full idea of its hugeness. And just to be clear (even though I already mentioned this on Flickr) that’s the furniture store, not our living room. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, for the moment the giant couch of burnished orange doom is probably the only item of furniture in our living room.

My apologies in advance if these image links break. For the moment, my Flickr Fu is weak and neophyte, so I may be doing it wrong. If so, let me know and I’ll fix it posthaste.

And while I’m on the subject of Flickr, let me take a moment to note that my preferred blogging software, MarsEdit 2, has built in Flickr integration. Whenever I want to put a picture from my Flickr account, all I have to do is press the Media button in my menubar, click the Flickr tab, and then browse (or use the built-in search) to find the picture I want. Size and alignment may then be specified. Most convenient. In case your curious, I use Flickr Uploadr to get my images up onto the site. It serves my purposes quite nicely.

Peace out. Will report in again, hopefully sooner rather than later.

[tags]house, construction, pool, photos, photographs, flickr, marsedit, flickr uploadr[/tags]

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