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[swordmage]

Well, it's the Fourth. For us, there were no plans except me to work (voluntary) and otherwise stay home and keep an eye on stuff. The dog doesn't like fireworks, so it's really best if we stay here.

Overall, today has been a quiet and uneventful day. I opted to work some overtime, and ended up getting out early (so I got six instead of eight hours). The lines were pretty light, so I spent time catching up on back-end work. I also made use of some of the corporate discounts I can get to pick up some licenses for software I want to try out.

Otherwise, we had the AC go out yesterday and it took two trips from the HVAC guys to get the bastard working. They finally solved it - apparently wiring on a part related onto to cold weather was awry. So it's bypassed for now, and we'll toss a few hundred to get it repaired this fall. Better than the $1500 we were thinking it might be for the compressor.

We've also come to the conclusion that, as bad things come in threes, we're reached the end our bad house-related luck for awhile. In between the pool (to be discussed below) and this fiasco, our stand-up freezer died, taking a decent amount of meat with it. And we caught it several days late, meaning when I say the meat was taken with it... Yeah, there was no luck.

But yes, the pool. We've decided that we're going to empty it and fill it in. It'll be a patio by the end of the year, and down the road we're going to put in a proper gaming room. Tabletop, board, 40k, etc... Yes, there will be a Geek Chic table.


Now, I have beer (Dragoon's Saison Blue) and a desire to be utterly useless for the next hour and half or two hours before I crash. I'm up early tomorrow!

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[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Is it expensive to fill a pool in? We have a patio in the back of our house that Dave had redone - basically just concrete, but they made a pretty pattern out of it, so it looks all fancy. Are you going to do something like that, do you think?

I read the 'Dragoon' as 'Dragon' for a second, and wondered what kind of beer that was! :)

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

Research in terms of estimates puts resurfacing and fixing about as much as filling it in. And we'd need to do it every 5 to 10 years. So it's been deemed a better cost in the long run.

We'll probably just put concrete down as it's eventually going to be the foundation for an addition.