New house, new blog
Posted by Matthew Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:52:00 GMT
Time for a change of scenery. K. and I are picking up and moving back to Washington, DC. As I write this I can hardly believe it myself but, it is the truth. Apologies if you are a friend and this is news. We want to tell every friend directly but, perhaps this is better than finding out secondhand.
We hope to keep track of the first-time homeowner experience. Our new place needs a lot of renovations and we’ll be moving across the country for the second time in our lives. Therefore I suspect there will be plenty to share, discuss, and organize.
To that end you’ll find pictures and bookmarks that will soon enough be mostly house related in the sidebar.
With the physical change I’ve made a virtual change as well giving the Rails-based Typo blog software a try. We hope to use Ruby on Rails at work and this will give me some experience with it. More on that in a separate place soon (likely design.abarrelofthis.com or something similar).
Where did everything go?
For now, the former running-related blog is at http://www.abarrelofthis.com/running/. Eventually, http://running.abarrelofthis.com/ will work for the running blog as will http://house.abarrelofthis.com/ for the main blog.
I have a bunch of redirecting to do to get all of the feeds working again. Sorry.
Hi M & K! Congrats on the new house! We look forward to seeing you at game night.
If you are looking for a windows & doors man, we had some windows replaced by Winnie Brisker of Window Surgeons, 301.420.2224.
We also had some drywall & painting done by Cook & Sons, 202.526.2533.
If you want names of remodelers/contractors I can look through the database at Remodeling magazine, one of the titles I work on. They’re mostly high-end, but are the best in the biz.
Good luck! Hope to see you soon!
Maria
It looks like a Petworth house. Welcome (back) to the hood, and thanks for the Game blog link. Now I’ve got to really start writing.
Hey, guys, thanks! And thanks for the recs, Maria. We will definitely need some window work at some point (although not right away) and may need some drywalling done once I realize I can’t do it myself. And we may be happy to have some other contractor info if our present leads go nowhere… I will let you know.
We will definitely see you soon, and I will have to hone up my (almost nonexistent) gaming skills! I haven’t played Acquire in a loooong time.