Just got my worst power bill of the year, the Feb. bill is always the highest, just about $700 for the last 2 months of electricity. Time to start cutting corners again, I can’t imagine how but we’ve apparently used quite a bit more on average than during the same period last year. [...]
The wife rolls her eyes when I go moving things around in the living room, but with this new TV I want to get a new stand so I can get rid of this big honking entertainment unit that surrounded the old TV. Good thing I don’t have rheumatoid arthritis or anything cause moving [...]
To go along with my new TV (some day, if it ever shows up, damn you Futureshop!) I had a chance to pick up a Bravia 5.1 system. 850 watts, smaller speakers than my current setup but damn did it sound nice. And it’ll take up less room, especially the sub which is [...]
So I did a bit of shopping around and I’ve found a TV stand I like. It’s more than I was planning to spend, even though it’s currently half price. These things have gotten expensive over the last few years! It’s pretty slick looking though with glass shelves, metal posts and a [...]
I’ve been working on my basement plans a bit more this week, trying to fit in a game room. Nope, not enough gaming going on in the house already, I need a good space to put in something bigger like a pool table or ping pong tables. Probably pool, it’s a lot more [...]
Going on 5 years now since we moved into this house, and the basement is still just a huge concrete room like the day we moved in. It’s almost time to get started on that and we have some basic plans sketched out. It will mostly be turned into a large rec-room, a [...]
It seems like this town has a hard time holding on to good doctors lately. A few years back the wife & kids family doc picked up and moved without even letting them know. We managed to find a new one for them fairly quickly and he’s been around for a few years [...]
When we bought this house we were told that it included a 7 year warranty (it was a new house made by Maple Leaf Homes). Too bad I’m not one for reading the fine print though, because as the house has settled during the last 5 years it’s developed some minor problems. Cracked [...]
The rest of my time this past weekend was spent trying to build a slide for the kid. I brought home some old lumber from the store, stuff that used to be for movie shelves, to build a platform out of. The slide part I bought on sale at Kent a couple weeks [...]
I’ve seen gaming chairs advertised before, ones with a bit of vibration, or with speakers built in. This one however takes the cake. It’s not a gaming chair. It’s a full blown massage chair from Takemi Select ! What better way to relax when playing some games than to sit in [...]
A while back I bought a new vacuum for the staff to use in the store since we had moved to a new location with carpets instead of just a concrete floor. I didn’t want to spend much on it so I just got one at Zellers for around $65. It worked good, [...]
I was browsing around online looking for furniture and came across these hammock chairs, that’s looking rather tempting for the rec room. They’re normally an outdoor chair, but since the basement isn’t finished yet I could easily attach a mounting bracket to the ceiling joists to hang a chair from. But, with something [...]
I’ve begun the planning phases for my basement rec room. I got the measurements done and got some prices on materials. Depending on how I do the room it’ll cost between $600 and $1200 just for the materials, not including the flooring (either laminate or carpet) and doesn’t include labour costs. I [...]
Finally have had a bit of extra time to get some things done around the house, like mowing and raking the lawn and cleaning the siding. Holy crap there’s a lot of bugs finding homes in the side of my house, spiders, moths, flies and mosquitoes. I thought about getting some spider traps, [...]
