Alright, I'm back on the net and here are some updates.

First off, Mary made it safely back to the house on Thursday night and regretted ever leaving. See, the wife in the Yellow Hat left Curious Ben at the house unsupervised. Tuesday he was too busy to get into any trouble and went home without tearing anything up. Wednesday was a different story...

Wednesday Curious Ben came home and decided to venture into plumbing. Curious Ben doesn't know a damn thing about plumbing but that never stopped him before. So he shuts off the water to the house and removes his sink supply valves since they had rusted in place. He then discovered that he had bought the wrong replacement valves. Curious Ben shouted a few choice words and drove on to the Home Depot. While wandering around the plumbing section he got thoroughly confused and bought lots of stuff to make all his repairs. Once home Curious Ben installed his new valves (quarter turn ball valves, Ben may be a monkey but he knows a good product when he see's it) and removed the drain system. Since Curious Ben wanted to replace his counter tops he decided to go ahead and remove the sink. After removing the clamps from the self rimming flange (alright, curious Ben knows a little about plumbing) and cutting under the flange, Curious Ben pulled up on the sink. He pulled so hard in fact that the entire counter top triked to come up with the sink. After a bit of jumping up and down, shrieking in rage, and flinging poop, Curious Ben finally removed the sink.











So after ruining the sink, Curious Ben chunked it into the carport where it will reside until he figures whether to turn it into a planter or to use it to make a planting table.

Today I washed all my doors and drawers in the shower. I don't know if this is screwing up or not, but they were nasty! When you scrub a door and rinse it off, and the rinse water is dark brown, you had a bit of dirt and grease on your stuff. Glad I'm doing this now instead of finding out in a month or two that my paint is peeling off. I'm still using Zinser on my stuff and is working pretty well. I primed about half the doors and all the drawers, and the cabinet bases are about 70% primed. I still have quite a lot of painting and priming to do, but its coming along. I think I'll definitely be done before the end of the month.

I gotta tell ya, Curious Ben was glad to see the Wife in the Big Yellow Hat.

Now, about Saturday.

Mary had a baby shower on Saturday, thrown our friend Jenny. I understand that it was a blast. My mom, aunt, and grandma were in attendance. I was expecting the family to stop by the house on their way home so I busted my butt all morning cleaning up the house (and let me tell you thats a trick when your kitchen it torn up). Turns out my grandma wasn't feeling well so my aunt drove her back home. Then my own mother skipped out and ran back to the lake. So I was in a clean house, just missed my family. Had I known they would have been unable to stop by I definitely would have driven to the shower at the end to visit with them for a few minutes. Thats neither here nor there.

So I've got the house cleaned up and have no desire to do any work that will mess up my clean space. Turns out this was good. Mary, Jenny, and Betsy arrived around 2 o'clock (thank goodness I wasn't still in my underwear) with a load of loot from the shower. I oo'ed and ahh'd over the stuff, and I'm really getting stoked about some of the baby gear. My son will be one sharp dressed little dude. My mom got me a neat Jeep brand diaper bag, and its pretty awesome. Anyway, the ladies hung out here and we visited and joked around for hours. We ended up going to dinner and had a truly fantastic time. I enjoy my wife's friends very much and since they read this, I want to thank you girls for coming and for visiting. We both had a great time and really enjoyed your company.

Oh yeah, link for some fun. Jenny tossed this out early in her visit and we had it running through our heads all evening. If you liked Squeaky Deaky, here's another catchy tune for you.

The internet is for porn

Again, I look forward to your hate mail.