Joel Stevens

For the past week, Elly and I have been working on the house. Pictures can be found here. I'll break this up into three sections:

Section 1: rearrange
We made our larger bedroom into the music room and guest bed room. We weren't really using the bottom half of the room in the old bedroom so this bought us a ton of room. We also got rid of a lot of furniture and stuff and gave it to GoodWill/relatives.

Section 2: a whole bunch of new stuff
We also bought a bunch of stuff:
1) A 42" Westinghouse LCD (duplicate of our current one). We mounted this on our new bedroom wall a la the commercials.
2) A mac mini. Our new bedroom computer / media server / thing of awesomeness. Got wireless keyboard and mouse as well. We hooked up our 1 TB external hard drive to it.
3) new bedside tables.
4) new end tables for the living room
5) new lamps for bedroom
6) guitar hangers for new music room

Section 3: patio!
We decided to lay down some flagstone as a patio in the backyard (we have no grass there). Since I've been doing steps, here's some more:
1) measure it out, came to ~400 sq ft
2) dig 3-4" in the area and desperately try to find places to put dirt from said digging
3) put more different dirt in dug area (actually decomposed rock)
4) place stones (in this case 5.7 tons of them)
5) realize that takes forever and decide a nap is needed
6) desperately hope you finish soon

Ping Pong club in Austin finally located: Austin Table Tennis. Anyways, got myself beat down by two really old guys on Saturday and then played again today and got really beaten down. These people are good. Also, bought a new paddle to put on the mojo spin. Got a pretty cheap blade (I think it was a bomb 749) and "friendship" rubber. Total cost was 48 bucks, and it was pretty cool all in all.