6 weeks and in the "sweet spot"

So the official word from the eye doctor is that my vision is at least 20/30. My left eye seems near perfect while my right eye is more like the blurry eye chart at times although not quite that bad. The doc mentioned that my eye is 0.5 diopters off still but that both eyes are in the "sweet spot" where he wants them and that the vision will be getting better over the next few months. We'll see if that's true.

When 16" is not really 16"....TV stands

So here's the new TV stand from room and board. They actually shipped us the smaller unit so this one will be going back whenever they get around to delivering the longer one. Overall, the unit is pretty nice in that it has lots of ventilation for the hot components. I also took a lot of flack for measuring the inside depth of the cabinet in the store even though the info says the depth is 16". It turns out that the inside dimension is really 18". Might not seem like it matters but my receiver just fits. On a side note, our Tivo started freezing and rebooting during some shows. Basically the hard drive has some bad sectors that cause it to freeze up. Since the unit was under warranty, Tivo next day aired a new unit to us. Hopefully the unit is problem free this time. Nothing more frustrating than a tivo that freezes up.

What to do with all that space?

More Kitchen work....almost done.

Well the garage has finally been installed sort of. There's a chip on the door so they'll need to order a new one. This is like the 4th garage now. At least this time they won't need to remove the frame. They'll just install the roller part.

This time the appliances actually fit under the garage. It doesn't get any closer than that. Here was the 1st attempt.

They also put in some skins to hide the screw holes that they created with the undercab lights.

Action shot of shaving away some of the trim around the fridge since the fridge bulges out.

Weird seeing the fridge without the blue. Man you can really those those fingerprints.

One problem we had was getting the fridge to be sturdy. For some reason it would rock even after being leveled. So in order to stop it from moving, a little wood is used to wedge it in.

Here's the new false door. The old one looked like crap.

Everything should be in HD!

Well our HP Plasma arrived just in time for the superbowl. Too bad there weren't more shows in HD. Everything looks so much better.




Here's a picture of the Terk directional antenna we are using to pick up HD over the air. The antenna works pretty well but then again we are only 2 miles from the TV towers. Check out www.antennaweb.org to find the towers near you.