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I only have 72 hours left in the state of California, but today I have finished the kitchen. I feel a sense of pride and sorrow over this project. I love the work that I have done (with generous help from my friend Antonio) but am disappointed that the kitchen will be first [...]

This morning I officially accepted a job in Singapore. I am now three weeks away from becoming a US expatriate. A week before that I will be without a home, living out of two suitcases meant to last me the six weeks it will take to get settled. My anxiety over this [...]

A frenzy of activity marked the Friday afternoon appliance installation. My contractor’s crew were connecting hoses and wires and the appliance movers were shuttling bulky items up and down the stairs. The manual was missing from the dishwasher, the cooktop was not present in the shipment, and the dishwasher lacked the features I [...]

On Wednesday my contractor installed the marble wall tile with two horizontal glass tile features. As expected, his work was fantastic. My kitchen would be done today if we were not waiting for the delivery of the second cooktop and second dishwasher. Those were supposed to come today, but that turned into [...]

Sunday morning Ruth and I drove an hour south of our homes to Aromas, CA, the home of TLC Ranch.  We know of TLC Ranch because of the high-quality eggs they sell at the Mountain View farmer’s market every Sunday.  It was at that market that we met one of the farm’s owners, Jim Dunlop.  At [...]

When I came home from work there was a Good Friday parade on Rengstorff Ave. in Mountain View. This is strange. For those of you that have not been here, Rengstorff is a residential street bridging the freeway and the valley’s surface street artery, El Camino Real. It is the most unlikely, [...]

After eight days of work, spanning two Wednesdays, my kitchen has the appearance of completion from a construction perspective. Yesterday the sheetrock went up around my newly-formed pantry’s pocket door and the last of the floor tile was laid.
My appliances are happily sitting in the garage so I may be close to seeing my [...]

Six or seven years ago I became intrigued with becoming the Internet’s “Scott Drummonds”.  My Dad had called me up to brag that his home page ranked number one on Google, Yahoo, and HotBot, or some other engine BGE (before the Google era.)  I wasn’t sure how he had done it, but I knew that [...]

This past week Ruth and I finally acquired and installed the final pieces to the remodeled bathroom.  The hard work being behind us, its a relative joy to attach the final accouterments. Well, they’re not entirely aesthetic, obviously, as a bathroom ain’t quite complete until it has light and a mirror.