Our New Patio
Ok, it's been busy the past couple of weeks and I have hadn't much time to post—especially when it comes to personal matters. Anyway, I wanted to post some pictures of the new patio I just had installed. I'm in the process of putting down new sod in some areas of the yard and I'm hoping that we be finished up tomorrow.
Jenn & I are extremely happy with DeMatteo Patio's work. Tim did a great job. All of our neighbors have come over to say how good the patio looks. Even the guys laying the sod have commented on how nice of a job the guys did on the patio (and they do patio work themselves.)
Anyway, on to the pictures! The next project I'm hoping to get down before the end of the year is to get the house painted. I was going to try to do it in the spring, but I decided to wait until fall and until the patio was built. We're hoping the patio will help cut down on the mud and dirt the dogs get into (their used to be flower beds along the back of the house—or should I say mud pits.)
qForms Video - Creating A Selectable Checkbox Range
Ok, I actually did this work last week, but was waiting to ship the code to the client before posting the video. I recently had a qForms user ask if qForms could do selecting of a range of checkboxes—liked Google does in GMail (where you can click on a checkbox and then hold [SHIFT] and click on another checkbox to select the entire range.
Well, qForms doesn't offer this "out of the box," but it's really not that difficult to add custom hooks into the API. So, the user ask me to build an add-on library. After spending last Friday night messing around, this is what I came up with.
George R.R. Martin Finally Finishes A Feast For Crows...
It's about time! George R.R. Martin has finally finished A Feast For Crows. According to Martin's official web site, Bantam Spectra (US) will be publishing the book on November 8th and HarperCollins Voyager (UK) will publish the book on October 25th.
Here's the release banner on Martin's web site:
Jenn & I Bought A Sofa And Loveseat!
Well, Jenn & I bought a new sofa and loveseat tonight. We've been looking for awhile now and finally just bought the bullet and bought one tonight. We were really having problems deciding what we wanted. We liked the idea of reclining sofas, but we didn't like the looks of a lot of the models.
We finally went back to a sofa we'd seen several months ago at Kittles. I generally like the looks of traditional sofas better, but we finally found a reclining sofa we both liked and we both felt a reclining sofa would fit our lifestyles better.
The third picture below I think is the actual color of the fabric we choose, but it's hard to tell from these pictures. We didn't go with leather because of the dogs (although we both generally liked the look of leather couches better.) We also wanted to go with a fabric that would hide the dog hairs (having both a Yellow and Black Lab make for lots of dog hair!) The colors in the couch are similiar to our old couch, but it actually has all the colors in our carpet.
Heading to Pittsburgh/Steelers Training Camp...
Jenn and I are heading to Pittsburgh for the weekend. We're planning on spending Saturday afternoon over in Latrobe at the Pittsburgh Steelers Training Camp. We're meeting up with a bunch of fellow Steeler fans we know. Should be a good time. It's even supposed to cool off for the weekend, which is great news.
I booked us a hotel room at the Courtyard by Marriot in downtown Pittsburgh for Saturday night. There's Pirates game in town that night, so if we don't decide to do something different, we might go check out the game. We're not big baseball fans, but I don't mind going to see a game in person from time to time—especially since we'll be just blocks from the stadium.
NFL Films - Pittsburgh Steelers - The Complete History On Sale 8/2...
Go buy your copy of NFL Films - Pittsburgh Steelers - The Complete History right now!
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This two-disc set celebrates the rich history of the Pittsburgh Steelers, from the inception through their incredible run in 2004. Bonus program is the NFL Films production of Super Bowl XIII, the 35-31 thriller in which the Steelers topped the Cowboys. Includes tons of bonus features on the greatest Steeler moments, games and players.
Bummer Time--I'm Sick and Nikki's Got Bad Knees & Hips...
The last 48 hours have been a real bummer. Sunday night started feeling the onset of a cold comming on. My 14 year cousin Quintin spent the night Sunday—he's here from Denver with his Mom and Dad. That was great and I'm glad I got to spend some time with him, since I don't get to see him nearly as much as I'd like. We stayed up until about 2am playing XBox, but I was feeling pretty crappy by the time I went to bed.
On Monday, I woke up and went to Giant Eagle and picked up the fruit for the Fruit Salad we were to bring to a family pickup. I also went ahead and picked up a bunch of juice and other stuff to try to fight off my cold.
Anyway, since I was trying to keep Quinitin occupied, we took the dogs to a park so they could run for a bit. I had taken the dogs to the same park a couple of weeks ago and they really had fun. However, Nikki (our youngest Lab) began limping a few hours after we had left the park. She limped for a few days and then it basically went away. I thought she probably just tweaked a muscle or something since she never really seemed to be in pain (i.e. she wasn't whining and she never stopped her normal activities.)