All Work Has Stopped!

Sorry about that title... it's a little imposing, but it's funny as hell. I guess really only if you were in on the joke at a place where I worked. There were two development teams in different places and once the SCM software went offline for a little while and so one of the folks at one of the centers that was a little given to melodrama sent out a rather terse e-mail about the inability to update to the latest version of the software. The subject of which was the same as the title, and the entire body went something like "When to be fixed?!?" or something. Like I said -- funny as hell (okay, maybe just to me).

Anyway, we've made no forward progress on the bar, other than to pretty much lock it down to tile. We have no idea what kind of tile or how big yet.

We did get all of the special order transitions in (the big 78" ones) and so those have all been installed and the floor is officially done. It looks fabulous. Meredith did a great job on all the transitions.

We went to Houston this weekend to visit our friends Henry and Stacy, whom we haven't seen in forever (since about '99). They live in New Orleans (Gretna, actually) and have been displaced by Katrina the hurricane. They were staying at the Hyatt so we pricelined the Hilton of the Americas ($60!) about 6 blocks away. The surreal scene was that the Hilton is next to the George R Brown convention center and it was chock-full of others who'd been displaced.

While we were in Houston we went to IKEA again but this time we managed to get out for less than a hundred bucks (a miracle, truly). Unfortunately, they didn't have any more of the lamp that I bought because I wanted to get one or two more. Here's a phonecap of the lamp itself...


Oh, and Don, Saundra, Trey, and Scarlet dog-sat for us. That was so nice.