November 5, 2009
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Literally I Was Watching Paint Dry …
The other day we finally had our cold-air, bug-allowing-entry front door and storm-door replaced by Home Depot. The hard part in the whole process was making sure certain things were HOA approved. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of the old set of doors before they were removed but for the most part I think things match up OK. While the guy was installing the storm-door he was questioning why I bought such a cheap door. Well, cost was one but the other thing was that the style and color matched the best of what we had before. So cheap it was. 
The front door we were able to get approved to change the overall design with the larger half-moon window that has a flower design in it. I’m still on the fence on whether I should continue to paint the white outline or not. We’ll see if that happens or not. The other cool part was that since I had to match the color of the original door paint but had no color codes Home Depot was able to determine the paint color just through a paint scrapping that I took from the old door. The same was done to match the grey paint on the trim board that I had to have replaced.Overall the installation took about four hours. Not too bad to install two exterior doors (the door to the garage was replaced as well) and the storm-door. The installers did, from what I can tell, a good job and seemingly pretty friendly. Though the boss-man seemed like he was gonna have a heart attack or something. Yeah weird. After the installation and grabbing the paint from Home Depot the race to paint the door and trim began. The directions on the paint can said that it’ll be dry to touch in two hours. This also means that it’s not totally dry so there was no way I wanted the door to get paint on the new weatherstripping and potentially ruin it. And since I bought such a cheap storm-door that had no exterior lock (was done on purpose since I’ve been locked out of the house a few times and it wasn’t by me) I literally watched the entryway to the house for about four hours. Yes, watching paint dry.
Such a lovely time spent. But it’s done. And I’m happy. 
- Sharka says it’s because there’s no Chipotle out in the middle of the ocean.
- Is there is a new category called Camera R-A-G-E?!?
- Good for you Madieu – I still can’t believe it’s been 8 years since you’ve left UMCP
- Joss, whatever you’re on, just stop. For the fans and your family. Just put it down and walk away.
- When someone illegally assumes someone else’s name, we say an identity’s been stolen; when someone legally assumes someone else’s name, we say…you’re married.
- Wheego, I go. I actually saw a Tesla Roadster near my work.
- I AM MICHAEL JORDAN’S SON. I AM BIGGER THAN THIS LITTLE SCHOOL. FEAR ME.
- ooooh, a proposed $6.5k tax credit for non-new home buyers is in the works. Will that just inflate the market even more?
