The cover for the couch came yesterday, and while I waited for Jen to get home, I figured out how to put the thing on the couch. It fits really well, but $200 is pretty steep for the thin material it’s made of, but I guess that’s in line with the four hundred percent markup Pottery Barn charges.

This Old House. Our kitchen is small by contemporary standards, but it’s functional for us, largely in part because there’s a 5’x5′ pantry off the back of the house. It’s suspended off the ground about four feet by two concrete pillars, and the underside is finished off with tar paper. The kitchen is also the coldest room in the house, in part because the radiator there is the last one on the chain, and in part because the pantry is poorly insulated. I took a look under there this morning and found that the tar paper is holding in a layer of blown fiberglas insulation, but I can’t be sure how old, thick or even it is. I’m going to buy a couple of 2’x4’s and a roll of pink insulation today and see if I can’t seal it up a bit better before the temperatures plunge again.

Oh, and those two cables I bought at the Best Buy last week? Neither of them work.

Random Link Fun. 100 Mowst mispelled werds. Know it. Learn it. Live it. Clean your 1st gen iPod. Gonna try this one tonight. VoIP hiccup. Doesn’t apply to my IP phone though… Dead iPod? Follow those instructions. Also, Helpful iPod support.

4:55 PM. Apparently a whole swath of I-95 is on fire or something, not too far from Catonsville. A tanker truck did a header off an overpass onto two other tanker trucks. What are the chances of that? This should make the evening commute a pleasant one. I think I may wind up staying late at work this evening.