When we last left Our Bold Hero...

I didn't mean to go dark for quite that long, but blogging does eat up a fair amount of mindshare and I had — still probably have — plenty of more important stuff to think about.

The house continues to be expensive, just less so now than during that fateful month when I had to buy all the major appliances.

I've made a lot of progress: I have a nicely furnished living room now, and I'm sleeping in the bedroom of all places!

(It was only after my brother Matt's wedding that I realized sleeping in my then-damp basement was probably the source of the mild "flu" I'd had for the previous week, but fortunately I never got seriously ill while I was living down there.)

My dad and two of my uncles spent two days here last week helping with some of the stuff I couldn't do, e.g. installing new kitchen stairs, so at this point I'm just a dozen curtains and two gallons of Weeping Willow away from having this place up and running. Then the remainder of my chores will be minor enhancements.

I'm dreading painting the living room though, in part because I used three different colors in my bedroom and it took almost an entire week for me to anal-retentive my way to the end of that project. My hope is that since this green stuff is the only color I'm using, with any luck by the end of the week I should be done painting for a while.

More on what you've missed later, probably-maybe. I need to get through this last push before I add another way to slack off back into my repertoire.