Wezzul.com - It's the Dinglez

Shelby just posted something about a dinglez war. It seems that I was in first for dinglez at one point today, but am no longer. It's interesting to watch dinglez work through google's index, and have it change position sometimes multiple times a day. As if dinglez is such an important word.

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Here is what has been happening for some time. If I open firefox while I have something like XMMS open, then at no point during the current firefox session can I do anything and have it play sound. It's like XMMS locks the soundcard, and nothing else can take it back. Turns out it's an issue with firefox. I changed two things, and it seems to be fixed now.

First thing, I added the following:

exec aoss /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher "$@"

to the bottom of /usr/bin/firefox. The second thing, I added the following:

FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"

to /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. After this, the issue is resolved. Just putting it up here in case anyone else has the issue.

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I added a tag cloud and tags to the site. I like it ok thus far. It may need some tweaking as far as display goes, but I'll get to that eventually...

Eventually...

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Quick update on the progress:

Sanding is almost done in the two bedrooms we pulled carpet up in. Just need to go over the closets and the corners with a hand sander to pull up the rest of the sealer so we can re-coat the floors. The wood looks really nice, in good condition, and I love hardwood floors, so this should be pretty cool.

Painting is done in two of the four rooms we are painting, and a third room has one coat down. Getting close to that.

Comcast is still fucking around. I now am led to believe that to have a TV plugged into a regular coax cable, and get basic cable on it, I have to have another line run to my house (which they did). This, however, didn't fix it. I guess this is some issue with some of the cities in this county. They are due out again today between 12-3.

The refrigerator seems to be on the fritz so we are looking into buying a new one in the coming days. My wife has found out that our current fridge is some odd size, so finding one to fit the spot of that one is annoying.

That's all for now. Have some more sanding to do today, we'll see how it turns out.

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My wife finished the first coat on the second bedroom while I was at work. When I got home, her step-dad and I cut a piece off a pocket door so as to make it fit in properly so it would slide right. I also changed about 15 light switches and outlets from beige to white. Used some plaster to fix some cracks in the ceiling after digging out the old, and shoddy, plaster job that the old man must have done. In any case, it will probably end up being better now. We're getting there, slowly but surely.

I am sure I am forgetting something, but I don't know exactly what it is. I'm sure I'll think of it later and edit the post accordingly.

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Day Three began with going to the house from the apartment. This would be our last night in the apartment, as from now on, we'll be in the house. On arrival, we unloaded the boxes from the car, and got to work. The day started with some painting of the second room where I ripped carpet up from, a beige color. Essentially, we were painting it because the walls were entirely too dirty to clean, and a fresh couple coats of paint never hurt.

Secondly, I ran some coax cable in the basement so as to have a cable hookup at the bar so when I get the bar situated, I have a place to put a tv over there, for watching of sports and what not. After looking around in the bar area, I've realized I want a few large area rugs for down there, so if anyone reading this knows where I can get one or two fairly cheap, let me know. I will probably do some thrift store shopping for these at some point in the near future.

Another task that is somewhat complete is the removal of all this fucking contact paper that was down in the cupboards. That shit left an awful residue which I attempted to clean off, but didn't do a great job on in some of them. You have to remember that some of this contact paper had probably been down in there for fifteen or more years, so it is almost like it's part of the wood now. Really fucking annoying. That is an ongoing task, it seems, as some of the cupboards are not at all unstickied.

I am back to work on Day Four, so what gets done will be left mostly up to my wife.

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On Day Two, my wife went up north to visit her Uncle, so I was left alone in the house. I pulled up all the carpet in a second room, and all the staples, and tack strips to boot. It is now, like the first room, ready for sanding, which will be done Wednesday or Thursday of this week.

Comcast also came yesterday, two hours late. Their phone customer support is awful, I got hung up on four times asking when the tech that was late was going to come out. I guess they don't actually like to give any answers over there. In any case, I have internet now, so that is good.

Day Three is changing the locks, painting two rooms, moving a bit more stuff and perhaps some grilling.

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We took possession of the new house today, and began work on it. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures just yet, but I will try and remember to do some tomorrow. We ripped all the carpet out of the master bedroom, and started painting in there as well. The color for the room, a dark green-brown type color, may not be suited for the room, as it seems to dry a bit darker than it goes on, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.

My hands are raw from pulling staples out of the floor. That shit is fairly fucking annoying.

I also hung my bar mirrors in my basement bar today, and found that the previous owner left three beers in teh downstairs fridge.

Tomorrow, they come to hook up the internet, so I hope to have a fairly often running list of updates as we improve the house before the final move day.

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