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New years eve. Klye started the finished coats for the drywall while I frantically tried to get my computer working to play music for our new years eve party that night. He worked alone. I worked alone. Not very fun. Until the party. Started to get close to the [...]

Nicole's dad helped me make the bottom portion of the front stage. Finally visible progress!

Ran projector wires. More drywall mud.

Lots of work but not much to show for it. More drywall work, I ran projector wires.

Last night before Christmas break. Finished the satellite, ethernet, and front speaker wires. Kyle started on drywall and Nicole helped with that (instead of helping me) since I'd been grouchy with her a few days earlier. It started snowing like crazy – we wound up with about 18 inches that night.

I started working on the wiring. Not much specific to report, just ran satellite and ethernet cables from the mechanical room to the rack location. Can't remember what else we did.

I worked most of the day alone on the rear platform with too little sleep. I finished the platform and installed tactile transducers in the floor of it. Because of the fatigue, I got angry at Nicole for no reason. I should have just stopped and taken a nap.

We took a trip to Home Depot to get can lights for the room and wood for the front platform. I figured out how to sandwich the tactile transducers between the top of the platform and a carrier piece. This turned out to be more complicated than I expected. I ran wires for the front [...]

I took my first real vacation day of the entire year today. I used up the rest of my vacation during a school-related trip to China this summer and it sure was nice to have a 3-day weekend. Nicole was off from work as well and we got started early on house-related projects. [...]

Kyle and Nicole worked on the soffit most of the evening. This was my last night on campus for my MBA! So I went out with some classmates and had a couple of beers to celebrate. I wa surprised how much work they accomplished — they were still working when I got [...]