Just a quick update .. in case you have not heard, the bleeding edge community site (bleedingthreats.net) is no longer in service. However a new site/group has emerged to take it’s place. For all your bleeding edge snort rules, you will need to update your bookmarks and oinkmaster.conf for the new site, which is http://emergingthreats.net.

Work is progressing very well since my last post. I have added a ton more photos to the gallery album, though I doubt they are of really that much interest. My mom informed me today that she will drop off the garage door opener tomorrow, meaning the house is 100% officially ours. I don’t know why something like a garage door opener is all that significant, but it gives me a warm feeling all over knowing the house has become a home.

I am still “swinging the hammer” as I call it, and now I am over half-way done breaking up the particle board and removing carpet. I have one small bedroom, our office and the kitchen left to do. Karen has been working her ass off as well sorting through things, getting the kitchen arranged how she wants and making a list for painting supplies. All in all things are on schedule, I refuse to say ahead of schedule, because I don’t want to jinx things, but I think we are doing very well for our first try.

Karen created an animated gif of me getting my swing on, continue on if you dare .. trust me, it’s super lol.

So where have I been? Working on my house. After my father died back in February, my mother decided she no longer wanted the responsibility of maintaining a house. She passed the torch on to myself and my wife karen. At first that seemed like a really super awesome thing, but after a week of back breaking work, rental life isn’t seeming as bad any more. However, work is progressing on schedule and I am starting to be able to see how things are going to turn out when completed.

First we started with cleaning/sorting/moving out all the stuff that mother did not want or could not take with her to her new apartment. I thought sorting through 30 years of stuff was bad, I was dead wrong. In comparison that has been the easiest thing I’ve had to do as of yet.

After all the cleaning and sorting, I had to remove three built in cabinets and all the carpeting in the house. I thought this was going to be a real pain the ass, but it really wasn’t that bad. The carpet had been there since it was laid down in 1977, so it was dirty as hell, but it tore into manageable sections and wasn’t so hard to remove.

The current ongoing project is removing the particle board that resides under the carpet and above the subfloor. This my friends has been a hellacious project, I’ve created a simple formula for calculating this project: 21″ prybar + 5lb sledge hammer + 2200 square feet of particle board = one tired ass tre. On the upside though, the materials for our new floors will be delivered this wednesday! I am far from being ready for them to be installed, and thankfully the installers won’t begin work until January 7th.

I created a gallery for pictures of the progress: http://trepullins.net/v/house/renovation if you would like to see karen and I doing *real* work … get your click on.