There was a particularly bad storm last night, which made it difficult to drive home. The rain was blowing horizontally, and the radio said that a tornado was heading into East Chicago — while I was driving through downtown East Chicago. I managed to make it through town and get to the Cline Extension, where traffic had slowed...
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Chrissy’s baby shower was Saturday at her mom’s house, so she came out with three car-loads of baby shower gifts. I was at home, helping Uncle Marve put in the shower faucet handle, so I helped carry in the wave after wave of baby paraphrenalia. Everything looks nice in the nursery now. Chrissy has all of the baby...
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We got the call from DirectBuy that our nursery furniture arrived in the warehouse over the weekend. It was back-ordered for three months, so it was about time! Chrissy and her mom drove out to Merrillville in the mini-van to pick it up, but ended up making two trips to get it all. Chrissy’s dad helped me carry everything into...
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Glenn put in a the upstairs toilet on Saturday, so I removed the downstairs toilet after he was done. We needed to have at least one operative toilet in the house, but Chrissy prefers the upstairs one since she hates going up and down the stairs to use the bathroom. Once I put a second coat of paint on the downstairs bathroom, I...
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I made the trip out to Fort Wayne for the Iacon One convention today. I was far from impressed. I think that there might have been a hundred people there, and that would include vendors and staff. About a dozen vendors were there, but by the time I got there (at noon), two of them were packing up to leave and a third was about to...
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Work on the upstairs rooms continues. Glenn is replacing the trim around the doors and the windows upstairs, but there is a problem. The new oak trim is about a half inch less wide than the old trim, so there will be a half-inch of exposed drywall when the new trim goes up. In most cases, there is also paint buildup around the edges...
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