by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 4, 2006 | HousePosts
Ben Grimm Would be So Proud… So they’ve now started to lay in the stonework and already it’s looking really good. At this moment in time they’re working their way around the corners of the front of the house. (They’ve also said that it is...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 3, 2006 | HousePosts
(Sung to the tune of Oliver!’s Food, Glorious Food) As I said in a little Aside last evening, the Stone has arrived. 10 very big boxes of Drystack Ledgestone in Chardonnay, one big box of corners, plus one palette of small boxes called “handipaks.”...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 2, 2006 | Asides, HousePosts
The cultured stone was delivered today at 5:00 pm. Tomorrow the work begins in earnest! We got the Chardonnay…
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 31, 2006 | HousePosts
New water lines, new storm drains, no stone… We were expecting to see the cultured stone delivered today sometime before 10:00 am. By 1:00 pm I hadn’t heard anything, so I assumed that all was good in stoneland. That is until I received a phone call from...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 31, 2006 | Writing
Interarchy (formerly Anarchie) has been a staple of my web life for at least a half-dozen years. Whether as a means of updating files on the Beacon Dispatch’s shared server, or to update, change, and rearrange files on my own web server. Version 8.2 makes some...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 31, 2006 | HousePosts
As promised, the stonework has begun. René (in the white shirt with yellow sleeves) started putting the skim-coat around the foundation of the house early today. By day’s end he was able to get a ways up the chimney. Daylight savings is currently saving most...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 29, 2006 | Writing
While my personal favorite for brainstorming is either a Moleskine notebook or your basic run-of-the-mill legal pad, I found Mindjet MindManager to be an excellent tool for getting all my ideas down in a digital format. You can read my Macworld review...
