Cabinetry and Birthdays

Bird and Jen have been doing a gut-renovation of the kitchen in their Mando (mansion subdivided into condominiums = Mando) (as in, "I'm Mando Calrissian, the administrator of this Tibanna gas mining operation.") Last time I was in town, I helped reframe the kitchen floor, and install oak strip flooring. This trip, I got to hang kitchen cabinets--to me, that's a fun way to spend a day.

Jen photodocumented the work on her flickr site (latest photos at the bottom); we ran the upper cabinets around the kitchen, which is a job that would be really painful to do solo. I've hung my fair share of kitchen cabinets, but it always takes a bit of refocusing to get the mechanics of shimming/levelling/plumbing cabinets in all three axes, plus alignment relative to each other. I'm pretty happy with how the job came out.

On another note, Jen is a student at UNH (in the nutrition program); she made honor roll last semester. To celebrate, I decided a spoof of the "honor student" bumper stickers was in order. We printed out the sticker below on magnetic backing, for installation on Bird's car:

[Warning: humor in questionable taste follows.]



The weekend wrapped up with a coffee hour at JMD's place. We got to meet Crusher and Cat's baby, Maeve; a very fun time. Many thanks to everyone for coming over--it was great to see you. We were celebrating my (and U5's) birthdays. Incidentally, I'm feeling exceptionally old: with this birthday, women half my age are now legal in all U.S. states.

No, I didn't say that was a good thing. Ick ick ick.