This weekend was fairly productive. I opened SupportAwards.org for nominations on Midnight Saturday and have already received nominations. The nomination period will run until the end of August. You can nominate by going to http://www.supportawards.org/Nominate I also received my new microwave on Saturday. The microwave is an over the stove microwave and so started the project of replacing the stove hood with the microwave. The first obstacle I encountered was removing the hood. It was painted in on all edges so it took a little convincing before it came down. Then I had to cut out a section in the cupboards in order for the exhaust to vent. There was already a huge hole, but I had to modify the hole to lineup with the Microwave. Note that I went to Home Depot 3 times in order to get some tools and supplies. I am now the happy owner of a jig saw…good times. After I sawed out the area for the exhaust then I started to drill in order to mount the lower bracket where the microwave rests its weight. After drilling the first hole I went to grab pam to have her help me out and noticed that I had drilled all the way through the wall. Apparently the wall was pure drywall and didn’t have any studs in it, which is what I was relying on. This proved to be a tad annoying as 3/4 of the space was pure drywall. This caused me to return to Home depot (1 out of the 3 trips) and get some solid wall anchors. The microwave itself weighs about 49 Lbs and the anchors I got are certified up to 50 Lbs each, so using 4 of them across the bracket along with one of the spring screws, I figured I was in good shape. After everything is said in done I now have a microwave mounted over my stove and it looks amazing. I’m really excited about it. The project isn’t done yet though. I need to wire an electrical outlet above the microwave in order to plug it in. Currently I’m using an extension cord to power it.
On the side I was messing around with Dreamhost’s Private Servers, VPS for the lay person. They just started allowing root access to the server, which got me excited. I got MindTouch running on one and am in the process of optimizing it for performance. It is pretty cool thus far and they have a great management interface for the PS like they do with all of their other services.
We also managed to make it over to the Cow in OB to grab some new records. We got the Best of Herman’s Hermits, Tommy the Soundtrack, Best of George Harrison, and CCR Best hits. We also have some Led Zeppelin coming in the mail.
All in all, this was a pretty awesome weekend.
