We love craigslist. . .

I really love craigslist. . .
pretty much do our shopping via craigslist and garage sales. Except for food we go to aldi's and marcs, which are kind of the garage sale of grocery stores...well the food isn't used. Anyways. . .

What we've had is about 6 plates and bowls we got from the Dollar Store. And they started breaking from Microwaving and such.

Got a stoneware 10 setting dish set for $10 (12 big plates instead of 8 though)

2 types of bowls, mugs, large and small plates.

Sweeeet

The Great Potato Misfortune

So there was some degree of misinformation or lack of research on my part with this whole potato box thing. Because potatoes do not grow up the plant very far, even if you bury it.

Removing sides

Potatoes down in the bottom 6 inches where the dirt is.

Our full crop. . . so worth it!

They tasted great at least, so there's that. . .

Next year, if there will be any potatoes planted, it Will be very different. 

Project: "I love cats, I just can't eat a whole one by myself" or "Kitten Holding Cell"

2 so-called abandoned kittens hanging out at my dads.

Sister wants an outdoor cat (or 2).

I helped her make a 'Kitten Holding Cell'

Had some vinyl screen laying around, used jigsaw to cut out the lid.

Electric staplegun to staple down screen. Bend over tips. 

Insert Kittens.

ƒin !

What I've been up to - Marble tile front entrance

Media shelves are mudded and ready for prime & paint. I'm just waiting to get the material for the actual shelves so that I can paint them at the same time as the drywall.

So I decided to do another project that had been put off long enough.

Got this marble tile from lowes for the same price as most not so nice ceramic so we got it for our front entryway.

This tile leveling system is great for granite and marble tiles. 

Homedepot.com - tile leveling clips

Homedepot.com - tile leveling wedges

Because these tiles have a clean edge you want them to definitely be nice and level otherwise its way more noticeable. A tile like in my bathroom floor, which is ceramic but has a tumbled edge detail. isn't quite as noticeable when not perfectly level. That being said, this world isn't perfect and I've learned to ease up sometimes on  making things perfect. There is a level that you can get to where only you notice the really close up details because you were working on it, that other people will not see observing from a 'safe' distance. The trick is not pointing out these mistakes after the job is done...oops.

There is a T-mold transition piece to go over the tile and laminate floor gap but I have to order another section of it. Will post pictures when that is installed.

Also I ended up buying a surge protector/receptacle-in-one. Worked out to be the easiest solution because either way I had to put a single-gang box with a receptacle in it. So why not skip all the other wiring nonsense in this case since I had an outlet on the wall beneath this one to wire into.

This is basically what I got except I got it from home depot and it goes with their 'structured wiring' system for home networking, a/v and garbage. I just used the receptacle and put in an old-work single-gang box. Its hidden pretty well when standing at normal height. (6 foot that is, ehem :)  not a word Ryan!

error error error

I'm not very happy at the moment, this picasa thing has really messed me up. Only the first few blog posts have their pictures missing, so that is all well and good. But the whole way I was uploading them from the Picasa program got messed up, and there seems no real way to make it work that way again.

It just made the process of uploading the pictures to picasaweb.google.com several more clicks difficult. It may sound petty, but it was a big deal. And now its a hassle

If this were a normal hosted site, the pictures would be in a folder on the server, and have the name I uploaded them with. I could simply upload them again as long as they are still in the camera's name format of 100_4697.jpeg   The camera just names them based on number of pictures ever taken.

In that scenario, after clicking on a picture to view it larger,  you might see something in your address bar like this:
www.jonofalltrades.com/blogpictures/100_4697.jpeg


Whereas picasa web albums even if I delete the whole online album, make one the same name locally and set it up to sync automatically when I add pictures to it, (Like It Was Working Originally Before The All Too Easy Delete) it still names it differently because of a simple url like above it looks like this:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CE2O5aB01eyRYedpk0cNiA?feat=directlink
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuSSvHn6P56Q20AWoOxvOfI6O_0aPY9wycvwsxD8kLI8bCvnm1-UK0aEqXXPA9Y4mLsZcEp_Okj_4Sln9merxDHQhNqWEukListNAHSbTzVTO-55KH_hQOzsdw17MWv86BP47FN4kDGJg/s144/100_6655.JPG
So in all the gibberish they change something so that I cannot go back to how I was unless I want to re-add the pictures to all the ( I know not that many) posts I have to this point manually to match the Brand New Gibberish

In case you could not tell, this is a rant. Not even that good of one. Except that I am quite annoyed, and it's helping me.

Its a very good reason to get site hosting now. Just not the way I wanted to go about making that switch one day, If ever.

So in the end, Picasa isn't doing that great a job keeping in sync web and local albums when if you hit delete on the local album that is synced online and it slowly starts deleting them online, Then you hit cancel. It loses all knowledge of what used to be. Importing the online album doesn't do it, and downloading the online album through picasa's menus. . . doesn't do it. It still turns out to be a new album and New gibberish.
If everything that I put up can this easily be undone because I'm working via Free channels, then I'm not sure where that leaves me, oh wait. . .yes I do!

Annoyed.

Just letting anyone know that cares.