As we come to the end of this week, the necessary framing has been completed, the dry wall is up and routed out in the proper places, it is taped and now actively being mudded.  If all goes well, by Tuesday of next week it’ll be sanded and primed … ready for me to tack on base boards, hang doors to the gas meter, laundry shoot and chimney access and then we’re all done. 

Hopefully you’re aggregator picks this up before it happens, but Casa de Hambone will be going offline today as new drywall goes up.  I want to get the “server” moved before this all happens, but time isn’t going to permit that to occur.  Maybe this afternoon … 

I’ve had a .NET branded USB hard drive on my keychain for over a year.  It’s never worked.  Every time I plugged it in and tried to copy files to it, I’d get a write error stating that the media was write protected.  I chalked it up to a cheapo device that just didn’t work … but I kept it on my keychain because it “looked cool” (yeah, cool if you’re a geek.)

Well, today Steven Dougherty – who doesn’t have a blog and therefore I can’t link to him – today pointed out that there’s a little write protect tab on the device that just needs to be flipped.  Of course, Steven majored in music and I appeared to have majored in just being an idiot, hence the humor of this situation.

Suffice to say, my USB hard is now usable.  Thanks, Steven!