Yesterday, we took delivery of all the construction materials for the bathroom project. While it’s just a small part of the total budget, it’s definitely the biggest (and final) step before the real work begins. Having a living and dining room that look like a small lumberyard really makes it sink in… Heavy stuff More heavy stuff Plumbing? Or upgraded Intertubes? Board yet? So very board

Today, we spent a couple of hours ripping down some of the drywall and insulation. Brad did most of the difficult stuff, ripping everything down… My task was cleaning up all the mess afterwards. mmm… fluffy pink cotton candy It’s tough to capture, because of the odd layout of the current bathroom, but we made a lot of good progress. The only downside is that since the ceiling is now a gaping hole into the attic, there’s a lot of heat coming in.

Apparently, Amazon has some difficulty telling the difference between 1 and 2.

I woke up this morning to find a surprise on the floor near my bed… Carpet prawn

As I started inventorying my gadgets, looking at all of the serial number barcodes gave me some ideas on how to improve my scanning process. I made a series of revisions to my AppleScript to let it handle serial numbers whenever possible. Unfortunately, Delicious Library doesn’t provide any mechanism that I can find that lets a script know that a lookup has been ignored. If it did, things would have been simple; we could just assume that ignored lookups aren’t valid product codes, so they’re likely to be serial numbers.

I recently purchased a USB-based barcode scanner with the intention of using it with Delicious Library to do a home inventory (their Bluetooth scanner is just to pricey for me). Unfortunately, the scanner model I purchased - a Datalogic QuickScan QD2130 - has problems acting as a keyboard with OS X. It works fine under Windows, but when connected to my Mac, it sits in a disabled mode and won’t scan any barcodes.

Some of you may remember the sinful dating ad I posted a while ago. Earlier this week, while talking to my un-boss on Messenger, I saw this ad at the bottom of the window: What is this trying to say? If you start dating people you find on their site, all of your friends will give up on you? I can assure all of my friends: nothing will change; I gave up on you long ago.

I saw this at my local grocery a few weeks ago: I can understand the importance of telling employees not to continue stocking recalled product, but shouldn’t they also remove it from the shelves?