treasure in my ceiling??

Yesterday i was replacing a loose ceiling fan mount in my ceiling, which is the floorboards for the 2nd level of my house.

In order to see what was going on, and for general curiosity, i snapped a few shots of this forbidden area. A few "studs" over, i spotted what looked like a miscellaneous chunk of wood sitting on top of the lath. I snapped a few other up close shots and inspected them with my camera. I sweatily decided it was simply a chunk of wood, and continued with my work and finished up the job.

Now that i'm looking at the pictures, i'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure its actually a wooden box, and i'm pretty sure there are mythical treasures inside. Some things that are likely inside include:
- diamonds
- old rare DC comic books
- ancient coins
- a map to atlantis

There are couple more related fotos on flickr.

not if you was the last immigrant grocer on earth... honey!!

I've had this video embedded in my brain since i was a wee tike, watching the first "music videos" ever to hit the mainstream. Only bits and pieces of the beginning of it can i remember... so i googled for a bit, and found it.

The only problem is, YouTube stalls on it for me!!! It gets about 2 seconds in, then it stalls! You can drag around throughout to catch a bit of the video, it is there, but it keeps stalling!!!

Let me know if the video works for you. Hopefully the massive traffic my site will generate towards the video will make those folks at google wake up.



Update:

I guess that massive outpouring of hits to YouTube from my site caused those guys at google to wake up.

Gimme a bottle of anything. And a glazed donut. To GOOOO

Ok mabye its not as good as i remember it being... oh well.

text messages to prevent identity theft?

I think if the banks and credit card companies really wanted to prevent identity theft, they'd offer a service (i'd pay!!!) where they send you a text message every time something happens in your account.  You'd ignore most of them when you're out and about spending freely, but would easily make note of the one made when you're on the couch.

Does anyone know of services like this at their bank or outside of it??

what my cats do all day

Pretty much what i did too. That and clean the basement.

Off to bluesfest, yay tv on the radio!!!

vacation

I'm off work for a week!!

I booked this time off a few months ago knowing this would be a good time to not work.  Boy was i right!!!  I don't have anything creative to say so i'm going to reproduce the list i created in my (home) workbook:

• Fix iron post footings under awning
• Clean garage
• Do something with my canoe (anyone want a 16/17ft plasticish canoe)
• Figure out how to finish my mud room
• Clean the exterior of my house
• By pressure washer
• Paint outside awning
• Paint outside doors
• Fix light in mudroom
• Add spice racks to kitchen
• Fix front window sill

One additional thing - i was at the airport recently with time to kill, and picked up a magazine called Fine Homebuilding.  Considering what i'm occupied with lately, this is pretty much the best magazine EVER.  They've got tons of online features too:

Skinny house (great for centertown)

Drywall tips

Testing electrical testers!!!

Yay tools!!!

itinerary of an unplanned weekend

I've decided to refuse any and all plan invitations this weekend.  Nothing will be planned.  This means i have nothing to do, and nothing is expected of me.  There are some things i *may* do, but only if whimsicality guides me in that direction.  Hence things i'm going to do this weekend:

1. Refuse offers of things to do
2. Ensure i don't plan on doing anything
3. Annoy people with my frivolity

So i'm not planning on going to go to art in the park, or finish my kitchen, or play wii, or laze around.  Its going to be super!!!

plumbing rules!!!

The uppers are up, the base is in, the double sink expansive and nice, things are coming together. Mostly just finishing touches this weekend!!!