Well it took a bit longer than expected but it’s finally done.  A few weekends of bad weather plus 2 kids and a wife who is never home meant I had a few 30 minute pockets of time spread out over a few weeks and 1 actual full day. Continue reading

Doesn’t look like the weather is going to co-operate today so I won’t be getting much work done so we packed up the kiddies and headed off to Home Depot to get some ideas.  I orginally planned to replace the decking, but after talking to the guy in the deck department he suggested re-finishing is probably going to be a better route unless the decking is rotted out (which is isn’t)

So the new plan is to add some wrap-around steps, put up railings around the areas that won’t have the steps attached and to re-finishing and re-stain the surface.  That’s probably going to save a few hundred bucks easily.  The current deck is just a simple 12 X 16 deck surround by weeds, weeds and more weeds so I drew up a simple plan of what the finished product will look like. Continue reading

Pretty good progress on day 1, managed to remove the decking to inspect more of the foundation and also removed all the railings.

I was being kind when I called the deck an ‘eye-sore’ in my previous post, when I was removing the railings, the tops of the railings literally fell apart as I pulled the railings down after removing the bolts that attached the railing posts to the deck.  After those bolts were removed I literally pulled the rest of it apart with my bare hands. Continue reading

This project has been a long time coming since we bought our place a few years ago.  The deck out back was in terrible shape when we bought the place  (handyman special) and 2 winters haven’t exactly been kind to the decking.  I can’t exactly call this a ‘how to’ article, but it’ll serve as a pretty good starting point for the novice handyman who needs a relatively easy project to start out with. Continue reading

This is freakin HAL-AIRY-ASS…. Blonde Jovi featuring Bitchy Sambora….oh to be a rockstar…

Metal Sludge - Bon Jovi threatens to sue tribute bands - The Power & Glory since 1998

I dug through a bunch of archived DVD’s and found some of my original design work going back to 2001. I left out the ugly stuff, but have a peek!

No, it’s not a cover, but killer none-the-less.  I am counting down the minutes to this release…

MySpace.com - EXTREME - BOSTON, Massachusetts - Rock - www.myspace.com/extreme

After a long and painful decision process, I have decided to sell my car.  With my wife not going back to work and me car-pooling, it doesn’t make much sense to keep both vehicles so guess who gets the shaft?  That’s all well and good, all the more money to save towards my Mustang GT convertible! Even though I am ridiculed for driving a girl/old man car, this car is awesome.  Goes like stink, quiet, solid, wicked stereo and is surprisingly good on gas (avgs about 9.5L mixed driving).  Check out the details here and contact me if you’re interested.

What an exhilarating feeling to finally be able to head out for my first ride of the season.   20.993KM, 1H 9M 10S and 18.2 AVG KM/Hr.  Not bad for the first trip on a mix of trails and pavement.  My typical route brings me to a fork where after the 7K mark, it’s either east or west with east becoming a short 10K sprint and west turning into a guaranteed 20K ride.  I’ve never been one to back away from a challenge so when my brain said “not a good idea to go west on your first ride with no real warmup after a winter of pizza and McRibs” the rest of my body said “If you go east, don’t forget to pick up a poodle and a pink blouse on your way back”

My body one the argument.

At a paltry 10K, my head was pounding, knee was aching and I remembered why I love biking.  There is no greater feeling than feeling like you can’t go anymore only to set another incremental goal to sprint towards.  I figured if I couldn’t hit 20K on my first ride, there’s no way I’ll hit 100K by July.  Yeah, that’s right.  100K.  Getting over that first hiccup and shock of the first ride just makes you feel invincible and there will be no better feeling than stumbling in the house on that hot July day, sun-burned, dripping with sweat so I can tell my wife I did it just because she looks at me like I’m out of my mind when I tell her I’m going to hit the 100K mark.

Bring It.

There’s absolutely nothing cooler than being able to say I built former Megadeth guitar player Glen Drover’s website.  I’ve known Glen for about 10 years now and have been serving as Eidolon’s webmaster through all 7 studio releases.  Glen’s working on a new solo project and there’s a clip on the intro on the homepage which will completely tear your head off.

A lot of late nights went into the creation of this site and I’m very happy with how it turned out.  Check it out!