The light at the end of the tunnel

All cabinets have been installed...



We now await counter tops and I get to bust my back installing a new floor.

New Cabinets

It's been a while since our last kitchen update. The next major hurdle in this marathon occurred today. Our cabinets finally arrived. But first a recap of what we have been working on.

We now have shelves...


We also have Waynes Coating (Beadboard)...


Our cabinets arrived promptly at 7:20 AM this morning...


We installed all the wall cabinets and everything looked great...


And then the major buzz kill of the day. The first base cabinet I opened was busted. Fan-freaking-tastic.


I'll have a fun phone call with Kitchen Distributors tomorrow morning. More pictures here.

Baseball Season Has Arrived

My new desktop photo...




Welcome back O's. It's good to see you again. A few more pix here.

Cherry Blossoms 2009

Warning: Never go to the Cherry Blossom Festival on the weekend unless you really enjoy long lines and traffic. A few more pictures here.

Access United

I've been working with DC United for the past few years and this season I'll be in charge of producing a weekly news magazine for the team's website. Check it out.

Oven Gone, New Lights In

I'm having another one of those moments where I'm wondering how we are going to get all of this done. Cabinets are T-minus 4 weeks away. More photos here.

100th post and Photo Map

To commemorate the 100th post on this fine blog, I have combined two of my favorite things: pictures and maps. That's right, my wife makes fun of me, but I think my love of maps began when I would sit in Social Studies class and zone out for hours by staring at the giant maps of Europe or Siberia sitting in front of me. This "study time" has paid off in numerous ways, I don't need a GPS, I can help my brother when he gets lost driving, and I can answer a lot of Geography questions on Jeopardy.

Recently I had about 12 hours to kill while sitting in a hotel in Miami. I discovered that Flickr has a feature that will allow you to place the location of your photos on Yahoo! Maps (Google Maps is the best...). So I sat down and took the time to place our travel photos on different parts of the map.

For example, if you click on the set of photos I took while in Miami, if you look just below the title "Miami" there is a link that says "Map" and you can see where the set of photos was taken.

Just a fun feature to take this blog from JV to Varsity. Or I have no life. One of those two.