Wednesday January 05, 2005

New Kitchen Floor

At home we are in the process of installing a new ceramic tile floor in our kitchen. To be perfectly correct it is a porcelain tile floor. I should also say that I use the term “we” very loosely. My husband, Duke, is doing all the work and I am admiring the finished product. The old linoleum was in terrible shape. We thought it would come up easily but discovered that removing it was a big job. I did do quite a bit of the work pulling it up. After one whole Saturday working on it both Duke and I had blisters and we were only half done. So we hired a friend of one of the girls to do the rest.

Last weekend Duke laid almost all the tile. He has a little more to do and then we will be ready to start grouting. I think I will be able to help with that. So far it looks fantastic!.

Beta testing JDS release 3

Before Christmas I signed up to be an internal beta tester for JDS Release 3. Yesterday I loaded the new JDS iWork client on to my laptop because I didn't have (and couldn't get) the root password for the JDS currently installed on my laptop. The install of the new iWork toolkit went very smoothly. I love it when things work! Then I proceeded to download the JDS release 3 ISO images and I burned a set of JDS release 3 install CDs. Now I'm doing the install. Stay tuned.