The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 196): Lost

Day lost to history. I should’ve wrote it down.

Monday (Day 197): Writing

Wrote all day because #1GF! is off next week and I don’t want to be writing while she’s home. I want to spend some time with her.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 189): Sketchup Will Not Die

Worked with Google Sketchup to revise our house plans and researched architects in our area. I then did a lot of writing for the week while #1GF! did things to ensure our survival like food shopping and cleaning.

Monday (Day 190): The Gift Guide

Called a bunch of architects and then spent almost the entire day researching my Holiday Gift Guide.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 182): Sketchup Madness

Spent the entire day revising Google Sketchup plans of our house in preparation for meeting with a lot of contractors. #1GF! found errors in our closing documents which is always nice after a closing is finished.

Monday (Day 183): Contractor Calls

Called some contractors and spent two hours with one going over plans before going home and getting a little writing done.

Tuesday (Day 184): I Am The Earth, Not the Sun

Waited for a contractor who didn’t show up. I spent the time listening to my Walkman phone and driving myself crazy by going over various floor plans in my head. After an hour, I gave up and left him a message. Rather than acting like the center of the universe and getting all huffy, I simply said that I hoped everything was Ok and asked if he wanted to reschedule. Turns out that he just got lost, and agreed to meet with me a couple hours later. As I get older, I’m learning to give people a little leeway. It seems to work out a lot better for everyone.

I spent the rest of the day catching up on my reading and doing some social networking because I’m low on ideas. The break gave me a bit of a recharge.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 175): Sauce

#1GF! made sauce, but I really don’t remember too much about the day.

Monday (Day 176): Contractor Calls

I spent the day calling contractors to see if they could take a look at our house. We have some plan ideas that involve moving walls that we’d like to price out before moving in. I called at least 8, and one told me that the job sounded too small. When I asked if he could recommend someone else, there was a long pause before he said “No”. I was confused enough that after I hung up, I said “Ok, then” to no one in particular. Luckily, six other contractors seemed at least interested in the project.

#1GF! went out, so I ended up working on site stuff until 10:30PM to make up for the time spent on the contractor location project.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 168): Bozo

When to #1GF!’s niece’s birthday party, and they had a jumpy thing in the back yard. Wasn’t there a time when those things were called moonwalks or am I just 400 years old? I was in the thing initially just making sure that her little niece didn’t get creamed by the older kids, but ended up rough housing with the kids. I’m 35. Sometimes I think that there’s something wrong with me because kids find me so appealing. Adults generally don’t act like idiots, but I do. I think once I get my house, I’m going to have a jumpy thing for my birthday and make adults jump in it. I shouldn’t have been so worn out by jumping around in the thing, and I probably need to get back to the gym. It was a little shameful how out of shape I’ve become in the last few months.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 161): The Helper

Raked leaves at #1GF!’s aunts house, taught her sister in law how to burn a DVD, and winterized #1GF!’s Mom’s grass. Went with #1GF!’s Mom to look at the new house, and then ate an early dinner of comfort food at a local restaurant before settling in to watch some movies for the night.

Monday (Day 162): The Officer

Found out that I was made an officer in the Kubb group on Facebook. You may now refer to me as the “Kubb Fu Master”. I then spent the entire day rearranging our new house with Google Sketchup. It was a 12 hour day.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 154):

Sat around the apartment watching movies and planning renovations on our new house.

Monday (Day 155):

Had a nutty because my traffic spiked through the roof thanks to submitting my beard page to Stumbleupon. I typically don’t stumble my own stuff, but I thought it would be fun since it was November Beard Club was starting and all.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 147): Library

Went to the library to pick up a bunch of home remodeling books. I also found out that the limit for borrowing CDs is 15. I was surprised at the selection available and borrowed 10.

Monday (Day 148): Failed Plans

I converted all my old beard shaving pages from Perl to PHP, which wasn’t all that difficult considering the similarity between the languages. What was a little difficult was passing variables to the Wordpress pages.

I was supposed to do some PC support for my parents, but they were too busy. I also heard that there might be issues with the PC that I tried to fix over the weekend, so I offered to take a look at it, but got denied.

At the end of the day, #1GF! found some problems with our purchase and sale agreement that I really should’ve found. Unfortunately, I was working on Perl and PHP and just trusted that the document would be the same as the last version we had read. I felt pretty bad about not being thorough.

Got a call at 2pm from Mitsubishi that my car was ready to be picked up. The dealer closes at 5, so it was interesting that they thought that I’d be able to arrange for a ride to make the hour drive across the city, considering I don’t have a car. Maybe they thought I bought a hot spare.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 140): Home Inspection

Had the home inspection which seemed to go pretty well despite a leaky roof and an old oil tank.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 133):

Went to the breast cancer walk up in New Hampshire with #1GF!. Maybe I’m selfish, but after 5 miles of walking, I started thinking only of the free go-gurt and cookies at the finish line. I ate 3 bagels, 5 cookies, 3 go-gurts, chips and salsa, and a chocolate milk. On the way home, we went to pick up a present at Target, and #1GF! got called a white bitch because some dude tried to jam his car into a parking spot before #1GF! could get out of it. He was trying to snake the spot from someone who was patiently waiting, but he failed to consider that #1GF! couldn’t get out of the spot while he was in the way. I don’t think that she’s a white bitch. I think he was just mad because he didn’t get to benefit from acting like an asshole and had to walk an extra 15 feet to the store. Eh. Some people just aren’t nice.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 126): Country Music and Handstands

I made #1GF! breakfast and then played flash games until it was time to go look at houses. We must’ve written them down wrong because most of the ones we showed up at just weren’t open. Afterwards, we went home and I played song after song from the Old 97’s on my guitar while #1GF! dozed on the floor. Then, I just did random handstands against the wall so that when she would turn around and be caught off guard because I was upside down.

Monday (Day 127): Mmm Chicken Pot Pie

I finished off the bulk of my posts for the week and published four of them. I got a call from the dealership who will need my car all week. We went to retrieve #1GF!’s mom’s car from the mechanic’s shop and went out to dinner at the Abington Ale House which serves home-style dinners like Chicken pot pie. Behind the place was Barrett’s Haunted Mansion, where some kid with his guts hanging out jumped at #1GF! giving her a bit of a startle.

Tuesday (Day 128): Geeks and Redheads

Made a minor, 11th hour update to the Better Blogroll thanks to AJ, who noticed a couple of formatting issues. I also spent a lot of time revamping the Name that Tune: Drums Edition which somehow broke at some point thanks to Apache’s ModSecurity module. It’s back online for those who want to test their drumming knowledge.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

Sunday (Day 119): Making Sauce

My parents came over for a quick visit, and #1GF! finished up making a batch of sauce.

Monday (Day 120): Free Advertising

I found out that I won a free month of advertising on Smartwealthyrich.com from a contest I entered at davidairey.com. I debated on whether to customize my ad to fit the business feel of SmartWealthyRich, but then thought about my former corporate life. If I learned anything from that time, it’s that if you act like something you’re not, you’re going to eventually find that you’re surrounded by people who you have nothing in common with. I decided that presenting an ad that painted this site as professional would be as unnatural as me pretending to like golf. I thought that it would be smarter to try to attract the off-center crowd that usually enjoys this site (like you guys).

I spent the entire morning creating the ad, and you can see it for the next month or so thanks to Jon over at Smartwealthyrich.com. Thanks, Jon!

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

The Life of Riley is a weekly post that details my activities since I ended a thirteen year career as a corporate drone. These posts are usually long, personal, and geared more for my own memory than the reader’s entertainment.

After a moment of reminiscing about the robotic anonymity of my old grey cube, I felt a little guilty that you had to be in that office while I sat out in my beach chair. Although I can’t join you in fluorescence, I thought I’d join you in spirit.

I wish I had tacked up a TPS report to the wall of my virtual cube, but I just don’t have the skills.