I’m the new owner of an amazing piece of fitness equipment. If this commercial from the 80s doesn’t get you fired up to exercise, I don’t know what will.
I’ll post more once it’s set in place and I make some modifications.
From the Tips
We had a light turnout for golf, so Don convinced me to play all the way from the back at the black tees. It was a lot of fun. We got to play a lot of different shots and see the course from a different perspective. Helps that I scored well. 🙂
Mtn Dew Frost Bite
This flavor is an exclusive to Walmart. After the initial taste it starts to sink it’s teeth in. I like it. Solid 8/10. I’d buy it again.
Mtn Dew Spark
This has a nice lemonade taste to it and is a good summer drink. Gets a 7/10.
Moving a Thermostat
As I’m preparing my new office, I realized it didn’t make sense to keep the thermostat for the front heating zone in the old/current office anymore. In the winter I’ll probably keep the doors closed and the register shut in that room unless I’m using it. So today I wanted to move the thermostat to the new office.
Disconnecting the thermostat and pulling wire through the basement was a walk in the park. Getting wire up the wall and through a small hole is no easy task though. I was playing around with some ideas in my head when I remembered I had an endoscope. I bought it 3 years ago, to the day, on Woot, knowing it would come in handy one day. Which reminds me of this quote from Adam Savage.
Today was that day! A couple of friends even made fun of me at the time, asking what in the world I’d ever need it for. I love proving people wrong when they doubt me. 😉
Ok, so what did I do? First, I found a hole in the basement that led up to a light switch on the back of the wall where I wanted to put the thermostat. Then I drilled some holes where I’d mount the thermostat. I tied a washer to a piece of string, for some weight, and fed it through the hole and down the wall. I uncoiled a wire coat hanger and made a small hook on the end. I fed the endoscope and wire hook up through the hole, found the string, and pulled it down through the hole. Success!
The hard part was done. I looped my thermostat wire around the washer.
I fed that back up through the hole. Then I went upstairs and pulled the string and wire up through my hole in the wall.
From there it was just a matter of mounting the thermostat and connecting wires.
Homemade Mtn Dew Ice Cream
Didn’t have any green food coloring to spice it up.
The Hard Version
This should give us a challenge.
Medium DevilPuzzle
This 50 piece version was a good warm-up.
Creating a New Home Office
Late in August I’m finally getting air conditioning (Mitsubishi mini splits) installed in my house. One of the wall units will be in the room across the hall from my current office, so I decided I’ll move there. The room is larger, gets more natural light, and has never been used for anything.
I’ve spent a lot of time in that room over the last three weekends, removing wallpaper, painting, and installing flooring. I’m loving with how it’s turning out. Here’s a before and after with the progress so far.
It’s been nice to have a big project to focus on. This room has already become a happy place whenever I walk by or look across from where my desk is now. Since I spend so much time in my office, I have several other plans for the room. More to come!
On the Range
