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Tuesday I wet sanded all and applied the second coat of mud and screwed up the inside corner. I hope to get it finished tonight. I took last night off to go food shopping and just take it easy. Finally got around to getting the web based mailing list manager up and running for the La Vigna mailing list, now Dean will be able to add and subtract people.

Carolyn’s father did suffer a stroke over the weekend, but is doing better. They are planning on moving him up to the rehabilitation floor today or tomorrow. He has lost a little of his vision in his left eye and now his good hand shakes a little more. The doctors think with rehab they can get him back to where he was physically before the stroke.

Well tomorrow is my birthday and again no party…maybe next year it will happen.

Spent the weekend working on the kitchen. I pulled off the paneling on Saturday morning then spent most of the afternoon filling the voids and holes with srtuctolite. I love that stuff, hardens in like 20 min after application to the wall and is rock hard. Spent Saturday evening hanging out with Avery watching TV and playing, after we went to see the paint guy Al at Sears to get the paint for the kitchen.

Charlotte came down and took Carolyn over to there Dads. When they got there things were not good and they had to cancel there big dinner out to the Washington Crossing Inn. Sunday wasn’t that much better for them…

I conned my cousin John into getting up early and taking me to Home Depot to pick up the sheet rock (dry wall) and other things. I was back by 9:30 and couldn’t talk him into helping me hang it. It took me about 7 hours to hang 7 pieces. I also had to re-frame the old door way to the Basement and so there were some studs to attach the dry all to next to the fridge. I think it all ready looks better.

I will mud and tape tonight. I hope to have it all done by Thursday so I can prime the walls, Killz and Paint the ceiling on Friday (my birthday) and then paint the walls on Saturday.

We never made it onto the Batman & Robin Chiller due to a long line and a break down. We made it across the park to Medusa the second best ride for us at the park yesterday.

Over all the day was good and fast. We enjoyed the rides and kept looking for Mike Foley since he was at the park to sign autographs.

Today has been non stop work. As is every day back in the office after a day off.

Temperature finally drop to a more bearable temp fro everyone at home.

Been working on getting the plans together for the new mail server. I decided to buy an Adaptec Raid controller an another drive taking my drive count to 4. So at 36 GB a piece and losing the last drive to parity I will get a whopping 108 GBS of space. That should be okay for this server. It will be hosting the Web,Ftp and Mail server on it.

I hope to get started on taking the paneling down in the kitchen tonight so I can put up the drywall on Sat.

I have tomorrow off to go to Six Flags Great Adventure with Henry, Tika, Steve Roco, John Allen and his kids. I just want to ride the roller coasters and skip the water park so I am going to end up on my own for a while.

Have to go back to the New York office next week because one of the Compaq’s I switched to one of the people up there is already screwed up. I am just going to re ghost it with the original image I made last summer. If that doesn’t fix it then the user is a jinx…..

Spent most of the day working on Nettracker for the owner of the company. Had to wipe out all the data so it would start pulling the right names of the users.

Dropped Carolyn and Avery off at the mall so they could get some exercise in the AC. They were getting stir crazy.

Probable going to throw the Blade Runner DVD in that I got the other day from Netflix while I re due the firewall. I want to get a 2.4.x kernel on it so I can use IPTABLES instead of IPCHAINS. That should only take most of the night.

Sunday was better Carolyn and Avery and I went to see “Hey Arnold” the movie. Look for a review on Lavignaonline.com. It was good, but I think the cartoon is better.

Then spent the rest of the day just hanging and working around the house.

Going back to the New York office this morning to get the Internet setup finished and to figure out there printing problem. I want to be back to NJ by lunch

The patio furniture was delivered as well this morning. We picked out the St. Thomas set from Sears. It took me about an hour to get the table and chairs built.

Last night I got the licensing error fixed on the Checkpoint firewall. The upgrade to FW-1/VPN NG forgot to carry over the external.if file which defines the external card for the program.

10:30am
I will start off with just my journal but will be adding some small things. I would like to thank Arcterex for letting me steal the code from his journal.

We picked up the kitten last night from my aunts house for Avery, but made the mistake of stopping at Pet Smart to look at the cats up for adoption and found out the cat Xavier was still there. Carolyn told me if it is still there on Sat we can get him. He has been in a cage for the last 3 months and he needs a good brushing and loving.

The kitten though loves the house,(we are still unsure of the sex so no name yet) and spent the evening just looking around and batting a plastic egg around on the floor.