October 10, 2008
Voting in 2008
With only 25 days to go until the next presidential election, I've thought about the voters. It's every citizen's responsibility to vote, but do you really think everyone deserves the right to vote? George W. Bush may go down as one of the worst presidents in the history of our country yet a lot of people voted for him--although not a majority in 2000. I think it's fair to say that everyone who voted for him demonstrated extremely poor judgement. Do we really trust those voters to make a smart choice this year?
October 06, 2008
New Siding
The residing project on my house moved from the planning stage to the execution stage a couple of weeks ago. The windows arrived on a Monday around 9:30am and the installers arrived a few minutes later and completed their work by the following Monday. The siding guys started later that week.
Why am I residing my house? The old siding was T-111 and it was starting to fail--leaks, some rotting, etc.
So I hired an architect to come up with a plan. He created an animation from the drafting software of his idea. Based on his recommendations, I'm installing a rain screen on top of the old siding and using HardiPanels for the siding. I'm also replacing all the old aluminum windows with some wood clad aluminum windows.
