So last night Gabrielle and I headed off to meet John (\/\/) at Stonefire, which turned out to be a very nice pub an restaurant out in Yorkville. John graciously treated us to dinner and drinks, mostly Hacher-Pschoor but Frangelico with coffee and a White Russian also hit the table. It was a great time and its nice just to hang out with friends…no drama…just relaxing and listening to some nice live music (just slightly eerie though how Randy one of the musicians resembles an older looking Dave Zelinski).

As I haven’t posted in awhile let me give a brief update on things. Lately my time has been occupied cleaning the garage and by the Gods I have actually made progress. I’m hoping in a few days to have enough space cleared to tear out some of the walls and run new outlets to aid in my vision of a garage workshop. I think once I have a small workshop set up then remodeling the house should be a bit easier.  I have actually made enough progress you can walk through the garage without bumping into anything ***It’s A Miracle***.

Other than working on the garage, Gabrielle and I have been trying to remain deligent on maintaining the yard and having hired the neighborhood kid to mow and do odd yardwork has proved useful. I remember in my younger years going about the neighborhood asking if I could mow the lawn for a few bucks. So it’s nice to see that the tradition hasn’t faded in the world of  “giveme giveme giveme but I don’t want to work for it” attitudes.

About three days ago John came over and Gabrielle and I help him to pick out a new A/C unit. We ended up going to about three stores until he decided on a stand alone floor model. It seems to work fine, but John has said that the noise it makes (not louder just different than he is used to) will take some adjusting to. John has also said that he wishes the exhaust hose was longer. I think with some ingenuity we could add some length to move the unit a bit farther from his room so he can get some sleep.

I’ve got more to tell, but have to run now to do some chores. I’ll write soon with a funny (at least I think so) mistake I caught in an emergency room chart of one of my patients.

ttfn,

Karl

For the last two days Gabrielle and I have been mowing, dethatching, overseeding, weeding, cultivating, sowing, seeding, fertilizing, mulching and every other gardening thing you can think of and we still aren’t done yet. Sigh. It has been a lot of work, but worth it to have the yard nice and hopefully we will have it shaped up nice enough to have friends over again for a BBQ. That is, as long as, everyone ignores the general state of disaster of the inside of our home. Let us just say that home remodeling is taking forever to get done, but now that I’m out of school there is a noticeable uptrend in things being worked on.

At least I’m learning a lot. I now know to not buy soil and mulch in bags from the store when you have a garden the size of ours 40 bags of soil and 40 bags of mulch is much more expensive than if I had just had bulk soil and mulch delivered and done the wheelbarrow and shovel method…ah well next time.