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AlderaanDuran  ·  4312 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you have a backlog? If so how big is it?

Mostly books. I read a fair bit, but not as much as I'd like. I have yet to finish Game of Thrones, have a stack of Philip K. Dick books I've bee meaning to get to, and a couple books of the Foundation Series still in my to-read-pile.

I have a backlog of projects to do for my house, and that takes up most my time. I moved in almost a year ago now, but still a lot to do, many of them waiting for winter to be over. Lots of painting to do inside, shelves/cabinets to hang, tear down the dropped ceiling that is in a couple of the rooms in the basement and finish it properly, dismantle and trash all the old shit cabinets in the garage, re-do all the heads on my sprinkler system, remove an old dead tree that fell over under high winds and heavy snow this winter on my property line, new faucet fixture for the kitchen, and probably a bunch of other shit I'm forgetting. I'm in a life transition from computer geek to Mr. Fix-It.

I play video games, but I don't play many, I'm more of a "play the same ones all the time" kind of person. the only games on my Steam are CS:Source, CS:GO, and PlanetSide2 right now. CS:GO and PlanetSide2 satisfy my noob-killing urges well enough I really don't need anything else, and only play video games like 1-2 nights a week anyway.

I'm also going through The West Wing on Netflix... easily my favorite TV show that's ever existed.





thenewgreen  ·  4194 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude. I just want to say that you are responsible for me wasting SO MUCH TIME these past 118 days. I started watching and became addicted to the West Wing. I'm in season 7 right now, about 4 episodes in. I can almost see the finish line. While I've really enjoyed the show, I will be glad to be free of it.

AlderaanDuran  ·  4193 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"I work at the White House."

GodOfAtheism  ·  4312 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You should take a few pictures of the before status of some of your house projects, then do them, then take a few of the after status, and post them online. Ain't no validation like Internet validation and you'll get that in spades.

AlderaanDuran  ·  4312 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I plan to, not sure about posting them online though. Mostly because I like being able to personally look back and see how ugly things were before, and to remember how the place was when we bought it.