About a month ago my buddy Tom posted about Cork’d, a website for rating and cataloging wine. I’ve been using it for just as long and last night I went through and added all of the bottles we currently have to my “wine cellar.” Surprisingly we have about six bottles currently but that’s only because I haven’t had anyone to share one with this week. Kim has been in Cincy all week on a vacation of sorts. Typically we drink wine at a much faster rate than we buy it. I’m going to start reviewing every bottle we drink though and maybe even recommend some to my “drinking buddies.” Sign up for the site now and add me as a buddy. I know I’d like to see Phil and Doni catalog all of their wine online!

Last night I met Phil and Todd out on the deck at the Brooksider. First of all, when the hell did they get a website and why weren’t Phil and I contacted about this? I guess I haven’t really been there in awhile, but they still know Phil’s drink of choice. We should have had first dibs on the site!

Anyway, not much has changed except they supposedly have WI-FI access now. I should have logged into work from the bar instead of leaving early to dial in from home. I’ll have to remember that for the future. It was “taco night” which even includes chicken tacos. I agreed to meet up with the guys for some chicken soft tacos and I was pleasantly surprised. From past experiences I wasn’t expecting the food to be great and truthfully it wasn’t, but I’d still give it a rating of above average. They have some new zesty salsa as well, pretty tasty stuff.

After drilling a big hole in the wall last weekend I thought about adding a picture of it to MyUglyRoom.com. Instead I just spent a couple of nights patching the hole and applying four or five coats of paint. Now it’s no longer ugly, and the office is ready to be organized. I realized that there was no way I stood a chance in winning the contest, just look at some of those disasters.

I did notice that there are two types of rooms on MyUglyRoom.com though. There are the truly ugly rooms with bad paint colors or even worse wallpapering along with the horrible decor. These are the rooms that get my vote. Then there are the sloppy rooms. These rooms aren’t necessarily ugly but they are cluttered up due to a lazy (or maybe very busy) homeowner. Those people just need to find the time to pickup their crap.

I’m sure the lack of posting last Friday went mostly unnoticed. Everyone was either busy preparing for this year’s Pig-Fest or on their way to Cincinnati for the party. After flying into Cincinnati late Friday afternoon I met up with others who had made the trek as well. We started off at Christie’s and after a dozen or so pitchers headed down to the Mad Frog to see Mike Perkins play. A couple notes from the night:

• I miss pitchers of beer, especially when they are only $5.50.
• Potbelly needs to open a store in Kansas City.
• Papa Dino’s is only good after a few beers, luckily they are open until 3AM.
• Recording a show at the Mad Frog can be impossible at times.

Saturday was obviously dedicated to Pig-Fest The 13th! As always it was an incredible party even though the cops really tried to ruin it this time. It would be impossible to document the events of the party so I won’t even try. Thanks to everyone who came out and partied with us. We’ll have to be sure to do it again!

Just as I think I’m getting good at tennis I go and lose to Kim last night. We only played one set and she won the back and forth battle seven matches to five. I think my serving was the deciding factor, especially when I lost one whole match due to serves. It’s a good thing that I’ll be getting some practice in with the guys from work tonight. Apparently I really need it.

This week of work without my boss is really catching up to me. I better get back to it…

With lots of help from Phil, I was finally able to work on a project I’ve been wanting to do since we moved in to our new house. We installed a coax outlet into the second bedroom, which I’m obviously turning into an office. My desk, along with computers, have been in the office since the move, but in order to have a connection I had to run a coax cable across the hallway floor from the master bedroom. I’m not in college anymore so it was decided that something else would have to be done.

Phil and I had thought long and hard about this project and yesterday was the day to actually do something about it. During the month of planning, we decided that it would be easiest to install the outlet on an outside wall rather than messing with interior walls. We picked our ideal wall and I began drilling a hole from the inside of the room with the hopes that the extra long drill bit I had bought would go all the way through to the outside wall. Unfortunately this didn’t happen and I’d say that we miscalculated the depth between the two walls by a couple of feet. Rather than trying to drill a hole on the outside and hoping they were close enough to work, we decided to drill a different hole on a different wall.

Luckily the second attempt worked much easier and cable was run from the outside to the inside with very little problems. We attached the cable down the side of the wall and to the main coax line. It was already split there multiple times so we just had to connect the new cable and everything worked perfectly. Now I’ll just have to patch the extra hole in the wall and finish installing the outlet faceplate. Then the furniture in the office can finally be put into it’s final resting place. The home office is coming together quite nicely.

The “holiday weekend” was great even though I’m back at work today. We started it off with a party over at Phil and Doni’s on Friday night. The highlight of the night was the cornhole tournament, and by the final match there were many new pro level tossers.

On Saturday we did some shopping followed by lots of work around the house. I installed a shelf into my closet to hold my pants and shorts. Kim organized her vanity area using a new rack of shelves. From there we moved outside to do some weed eating (thanks to our new weed eater) and yard cleanup. I also fixed a rocking chair that Kim picked up for free last weekend. All it needed was a new seat and it cost us less than $10 to fix that.

After we were good and worn out we walked up the street to Rudy’s Tenampa Taqueria for some awesome Mexican food. We had heard many great things about this restaurant from our neighbors, and they were absolutely correct. The food was fantastic!

We spent most of yesterday out at Smithville Lake, the same lake we were at this time last year. The Martin’s were nice enough to invite us out on their boat once again, along with Phil and Doni. I was finally able to ditch my farmer’s tan, although I did get a little burnt in spots. At least I won’t look like a goof at Pig-Fest.