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Mar. 6th, 2010 01:09 amSo the last post of the five for this week.
So with the house, well no much has happened really. Too much else to do so we've kind of put it on hold while we get what else we need to do sorted. Here's what's notionally left of the initial process of getting the house done up:
Paint the Hallway, and downstairs loo.
Clean up the porch.
Get and fit a glass shower door for the bath.
Clean, sand and paint all the door frames, doors and skirting boards.
Clean up the window frames.
Get shelves up in the lounge (so I can move my book, DVDs and games up - basically most of what I own).
And a couple of others things I don't remember right now I suspect.
On the plus side the house has been done enough that we've been able to have people around every so often. I'm enjoying getting to cook for people, and it's nice especially after not getting to see many people because of all the time I was spending on the house. These days everyone tends to be busier so I've taken to trying to book people in advance, and generally it seems to be working (though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
almosthonest is incredibly difficult to get hold of these days).
Health wise I'm doing ok. Had a lazy run of mostly getting the bus home the last month, and have got back into walking home. Managed it every day this week. Considering it currently forms my only form of exercise at the moment it's important I keep it up. It's nice that it only takes me 30 minutes to walk home and the 0.8 mile of up hill isn't so bad at all. My main slight concern at the moment is the skin between each of my little toes and the next one along has gone green - I only noticed when the toe on my right side swelled up randomly one day last week as it's not an area that's easy to see. Been to the doctors once who said bacterial skin infection and prescribed antibiotics. It hasn't made a difference so going back again next week and will hopefully get it sorted. Thankfully at least it doesn't hurt at all.
Work at the moment is mind numbingly dull. On the integration/FAT test team at the moment and as we're a bit short of things we can integration test we've started the work of defining the FAT test data and writing the FAT scripts, with the occasional awkward bits of writing sql to manually load required starting data into the database. There's only so much time that can be spent flicking between sections of sql, tables and documents manually checking primary key and constrained value list values, or spent writing "Press the 'Save' button, verify the data has saved" before your brain wants to crawl out of your ears for the sake of variety. There's months of effort of it do too. Still at least it's in Bath, and I have a graduate minion again.
So with the house, well no much has happened really. Too much else to do so we've kind of put it on hold while we get what else we need to do sorted. Here's what's notionally left of the initial process of getting the house done up:
Paint the Hallway, and downstairs loo.
Clean up the porch.
Get and fit a glass shower door for the bath.
Clean, sand and paint all the door frames, doors and skirting boards.
Clean up the window frames.
Get shelves up in the lounge (so I can move my book, DVDs and games up - basically most of what I own).
And a couple of others things I don't remember right now I suspect.
On the plus side the house has been done enough that we've been able to have people around every so often. I'm enjoying getting to cook for people, and it's nice especially after not getting to see many people because of all the time I was spending on the house. These days everyone tends to be busier so I've taken to trying to book people in advance, and generally it seems to be working (though
almosthonest is incredibly difficult to get hold of these days).Health wise I'm doing ok. Had a lazy run of mostly getting the bus home the last month, and have got back into walking home. Managed it every day this week. Considering it currently forms my only form of exercise at the moment it's important I keep it up. It's nice that it only takes me 30 minutes to walk home and the 0.8 mile of up hill isn't so bad at all. My main slight concern at the moment is the skin between each of my little toes and the next one along has gone green - I only noticed when the toe on my right side swelled up randomly one day last week as it's not an area that's easy to see. Been to the doctors once who said bacterial skin infection and prescribed antibiotics. It hasn't made a difference so going back again next week and will hopefully get it sorted. Thankfully at least it doesn't hurt at all.
Work at the moment is mind numbingly dull. On the integration/FAT test team at the moment and as we're a bit short of things we can integration test we've started the work of defining the FAT test data and writing the FAT scripts, with the occasional awkward bits of writing sql to manually load required starting data into the database. There's only so much time that can be spent flicking between sections of sql, tables and documents manually checking primary key and constrained value list values, or spent writing "Press the 'Save' button, verify the data has saved" before your brain wants to crawl out of your ears for the sake of variety. There's months of effort of it do too. Still at least it's in Bath, and I have a graduate minion again.
