I got paid yesterday. Hallelujah. The carpet is ordered and all I have to do is set up a time when they can come and do it. Hopefully in a week or so. And, I saved about $100 or so from my initial estimate- I thought it would be about $500 and it came to a little under $400 with better padding. I also bought the rest of the trim molding and stained it last night; I bought 2 lighted 3-way switches for the stupid hallway light, so that will finally work again; and I bought 4 planks of 8″ wood, 2 maple and 2 pine, for the stairs. Then I installed them and found the stairs were actually 8″ deep/tall, not 7 ½” like the stupid lumberyards cut everything now. So I cut 2 planks, they don’t fit, and I’m going to return the other two (hopefully.) I guess I’ll heatgun/sand the old planks and then reinstall them- they were ugly, but still very sturdy.

The backyard is finished- the wall is up and looks good. So, next spring I’ll start on the revamping back there.

I also installed a Voodoo 5 card in the NT box last night; it’s running fine and works great. It also fixes the nagging gamma problem I’ve had with the Sony monitor, so I don’t think I need to buy a new monitor right away. Thank god. I’ve been trying to install the Voodoo 3 in the Mac here at work but it isn’t working right now- after a long search for all the proper install files and a flash of the card’s BIOS, it crashed on a boot of Marathon and now isn’t working anymore.