Basement took some Water

I was up till 2:30 last night mopping, flood proofing, and just generally cleaning up the basement.  The rain really picked up around 10, and when I went down to check, found some trickles of water comin from a few of the walls.  The front door jams leak like crazy into the basement, so I will have to investigate that soon.  But basically, we had a 25 year storm, and the basement held up rather well.  I think once we get the gutters fixed and properly channeling water away from the house, we should be in really good shape. 
The dehumidifier cleaned up most of the water overnight, but my carpet under my desk got wet, so I need to figure out how to dry that out.  Its standing on end now.  None of my filing cabinets got wet, and I moved the fraterity one up into the living room for a few days.  The only thing left to do is to get the spare fridge up on blocks and we can take 6" of water without a problem (well except the dehumidifier would be under water, may have to boost it up too).

Sorry to ramble, I am a bit tired. :)

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Custr Map

I saw this on another blog I read. It is a map that shows where all of your visitors come from. It is pretty sweet. Check it out on the right.

Sick

I hate being sick. Spent most of the day yesterday on the couch, either asleep, or wishing I was asleep :).

Last week Rachel had a sore throat and kept loosing her voice. I was hoping that I wouldn't catch it, but sure enough, I woke up Monday with a sore throat, but we had a busy day going to Indy to pick up the G5 tower that I won on ebay, plus we wanted to go shopping. We cancelled lunch with some friends because I didn't want to get anybody sick.

But I woke up Tuesday feeling terrible. Like I said, spent most of the day on the couch.

Then Today, I turned my alarm off in my sleep and slept for an extra hour :(. I was at work by 8:45, but it was a cold walk in at 9 degrees(F) :). Looking forward to the walk home tonight.

Well, I have two packages coming today, so that should help brighten up my day :)

And the Kitchen continues

My Dad came over today and this was my list of things I wanted to accomplish.

Remove old sink plumbing (drain and supply, and cap/plug for later).
Finish rough-in electric work for kitchen (at least so we could close up walls).
Fix outside brick/plaster wall
Put in drywall and mud first coat.
Look at electric panel for future upgrade
look at fancy metal backsplace
look into insulating basement windows.

We got everything done, except the last one, we talked about it, but didn't look at anything at the hardware store.

Tuesday I will put the second coat of mud on the drywall, and fill in some more holes on the brick/plaster wall.

Then I will start putting cabinets together :)

We should have it done by Febuary!!!!!!

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

I don't know how many of you have heard of this? You can read more about it at Laptop.org. Rachel and I's friend, Josh Parsell, chatted with me one day about OLPC's Thanksgiving promotion of "Give One, Get One". I investigated it, and after chatting with Rachel and talking and Praying about it, we decided to do it. What happens is that you buy 2 of the OLPC laptops. One of them gets sent to Africa, or some other third world country, and one gets sent to you. This is two fold. One is that it is a neat way to get people to help finance this program, and the other is so that OLPC can have people in the US that have the laptops to provide tech support for the children in developing countries.

Basically, you get to write off one of the laptops on your taxes, and you get to keep one for you. So as I said, after Rachel and I prayed about it, we decided to buy two of the deals. This was back in November, and they had told us that they didn't know if we would recieve our laptops by Christmas or not. We weren't in any rush, as we weren't getting them for Christmas presents anyways.

Well, long story even longer ;), we got home from the Nead family Christmas, and found a large heavy box on the front porch. Now, mind you, this isn't unusual with Rachel's ebay habit, but we were perplexed none-the-less.

I get it inside and open the box, and inside are two of the laptops. Now as anyone who knows me would realize, I got a bit excited :).

So we unboxed one of them, and got it up and running for Ricky, then got the other one open and set it up for Wes. Of course one of the instructions is that infants are not to use it.

Well, ok, its late, and I need to head to bed, as we have Church tomorrow, then the Johnson Extended Family Christmas in Cincinnati tomorrow.

Unboxing pictures are at photos.johnsoax.com