We started the reconstruction of our basement today and, as a result, casadehambone.com was offline for most of the day.  However, I have two pieces of good news:

a)      Casa de Hambone is back online and operational

b)      We made tremendous progress in tearing out the walls and ceiling in the basement.  In fact, we got 90% of the room done today.  Next week we’ll be ready to do electrical!

In the process, I also cleaned out three machines that the house doesn’t need any more.   Kind of amazing what one keeps:

·         A 386 with a 486 upgrade chip and 64MB of RAM

·         A Pentium Pro 200 with 256MB of RAM, including a non-working floppy drive and a non-bootable CD-ROM; this machine is being dedicated to a good cause at the Chicago Windows Users Group on the 19^th

·         A Pentium Pro 200 with 256MB of RAM that was working; this is a work machine and after I take my upgraded IDE drive out of it, I’ll be bringing it back to the office to be salvagaed

This leaves the house with the machine that is serving casadehambone.com – a Compaq M700 notebook with 1GB of RAM running Windows Server 2003, and the machine which is my day-to-day notebook.  My wife also has a Toshiba Tecra that we use upstairs and it’s about to either be reloaded or replaced real soon now.