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Another home-filled work weekend for us.

Saturday I spent a few hours under the house putting down a vapor barrier. In case you were wondering, it’s very dirty and spider-webby down there. I should have taken photos. On a tip from my mom, I picked up a disposable coverall, which was a great idea. As you can see here, I got very dirty. This process completely sucked and I’m bruised and sore today as a result. Plus, I hit my head so hard on a floor joist, Lori heard it in the house. The opening to the crawlspace is pretty high, around 3 feet, but further in it gets down to about a foot. It was especially tight around the A/C ductwork. Shit, I’m a homeowner.

We closed out the evening with dinner with my parents at Steinbeck’s Oyster Bar. The Bluepoint oysters are awesome and the blackened grouper sandwich is insanely good. I’ll eat both again. My dad also helped us install a new bathroom light, which was awesome. After we dropped off the old timers, we headed over to Marcos‘ house for an end of summer party. This portion of the day was great.

Even though Sunday was originally scheduled to be a no-work day, we managed to wake up and get to Costco to buy a new mattress/box spring set and rent a truck from Home Depot to get it home. Then Lori took the lead on the completion of the master bathroom hangy-thing installation project. The woman will have photos later.

I’m going to have a rum and coke, enjoy macaroni Sunday and watch a horror movie.

I have sporadic back pains, but today is an especially bad day. I hate it.

It’s been over a week since I was stung by a jellyfish four times and I have to say that the stinged areas itch more now than at any point before this. I’ve done some reading, and am pretty sure I would have died by now if I was in any serious danger, but they still itch like crazy and are pissing me off.

And for the record, urine does not help jellyfish stings. That is just an urban legend, at least according to the internet.

Enjoy photographic goodness of my pain and suffering on flickr.

I was stung by jellyfish four times.
I almost lost a leg in a near golf cart accident.

See photos at flickr.
See video at vimeo.

Lori invited some people over for Dogwood Festival pre-drinking, food, post-drinking, and food. The festival was much less crowded than in previous years thanks to the morning rain. Since I’m not really a fan of people, this worked out well. Thanks Lori!

The best part was when Duane, Dave and I decided that the trampoline in the backyard was looking a little lonely and we needed to check it out. Things started out pretty tame, but soon turned into flips and back flips. Long story short, I did a face plant into the trampoline and hurt myself. I managed to come away from it with a little facial bleeding and my neck hurts today. It was a great time.

Things I learned this weekend:

1. Trampolines and drinking go together really well.
2. Flexon glasses are pretty much indestructible.
3. If anyone was worried about the durability of their Canon sd200, don’t be.
4. Gravity is a cruel bitch.

I’ve also added a new category called ‘I Got Hurt’. I might go back through the archives and tag previous I Got Hurt moments.

Photos uploaded to flickr.
Video after Duane also got hurt on Vimeo.

Enjoy.

My neck hurts right where I’m pointing. It mostly hurts when I turn my head to the right. I was hoping that sleep would magically cure it last night, but it didn’t.

Update 01/18/2006: Having a tag in the title is causing problems and pissing me off, so it has been updated.