Wait... I have a blog?

I just re-discovered that I actually did create a blog 6 years ago. This blog in fact.

Given my current inclination to avoid Facebook, and yet still want to document my thoughts in a semi-public manner, I've decided to re-activate it.

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Edit: Apparently, in a six year period blogger changed someone their default settings. Go figure.

After some random stabbing of configuration values, I now have site that looks a little spiffier.  (Well, it's less painful to look at.)  Given that my only viewer recently has been the google web-crawler, I expect this change will go largely unappreciated.

Spider!

So I was doing the laundry last night when I noticed this gal hanging around outside my backdoor.



There's nothing in the picture to get the scale correct, but her leg span is nearly 2 inches! According to the internet, she's a Black and Yellow Garden Spider. My first impulse was to grab the bug spray and take it out, but as I was watching it last night she caught and cocooned two other annoying insects. As far as I'm concerned that's enough to make her rent, so I'm going to leave her be for now.

How time flies.

I currently have family visiting, so there's not much progress on the house being made. However, I was able to move that wall over about a quarter inch. Once that was done I started filling in the gaps with drywall.



As I've mentioned before, the trim around the doors was actually put down before the drywall. Since that makes it hard to paint and looks a little sloppy, I went ahead and pulled the trim off from around the doors, so I can build up the drywall beneath it.



Interesting discovery. There's not much holding the door jamb in place except for the trim. I may have to reinforce that some how.