Prime Rib Fest

Oops - been a few days since I last posted. Sorry about that. Now I'll have to backtrack, and try to jog my memory....

Sunday:
(night) we took my family (Mom, Dad and Sis) and our Real Estate Super Agent, Pete Brannigan out to dinner at The House of Prime Rib to thank them for all of their help with our move. It was an exceptional meal.

My parents and my sister gave us a wonderful house-warming gift: "His" and "Hers" brass plates for us to put on the doors of our individual condos! Brilliant! We were hoping to get these done eventually, so it was a wonderful gift!

It was really hot yesterday - hot for us San Francisco weather wimps, that is. Somewhere in the mid-80s. Oy.

Dick and I were busy bees yesterday - we wired an ethernet cable from the downstairs unit closet (where the media center will live) down to the basement, up the wall of the building, and into my office upstairs (where our high-speed cable modem lives)! Dick ordered 1,000 feet (yep, 1,000!) of ethernet cable, and a cool little kit so we can make our own ethernet cables. We'll do a little more wiring during the week so our media center/Xbox(s) will be all ready to hook up once we make the big move downstairs.

Saturday: I spent the day with my family at my sister's place in Oakland. We painted two walls in her bedroom, and her guest bathroom. It turned out really nice. We also had a great visit from my Grandparents, who came down to do some shopping in Oakland Chinatown! They brought us Dim Sum for lunch, and we all went out to dinner in the evening.

Dick spent part of the day installing our new garbage disposal in the downstairs kitchen. yep, that boyfriend of mine - he's a handy guy! He was very excited about the project. Neither of the condos have ever had a garbage disposal installed before (that can't be too unusual in old houses) so there was a lot of work to be done. Dick did all of the electrical wiring first, used his new Dremmel tool to remove the old drain from the sink, then attached the new unit, and hooked it up to the plumbing. Wow - impressive!

The painters didn't come over the weekend, which was a surprise only because they told us when they left on Friday that they would come on both days. Oh well. I'm not sure what that means as far as our scheduling goes. Hopefully, we'll be able to move in this weekend, but I'm not sure yet....

They did manage to get very far last week, though. They prepped the whole downstairs - it took 3 guys 3 days just to do the prepping! (lots of work to be done) They are painting the ceilings today, and will probably paint the trim tomorrow. I'll keep ya posted.

Friday: Dick and I drove down to Woodside to have lunch, and a meeting with my client at Buck's. It was a yummy lunch, good meeting, and a nice drive down 280.

That's all I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure that there were other interesting things that must of happened, but they simply escape me at the moment.