One of the last rooms I need to paint. The wall’s supposed to be peach, and it’s a little more subtle than it looks here. This will be the guest bedroom, and we needed to get it painted before the bed arrives next week. After painting a few times, you make less of a mess and get it done more efficiently.

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I don’t sit down nearly enough in front of the computer these days. Heh, with a living room now, I’ve become more of a couch potato, just consuming television shows when they are on. Especially after work, you come home, prepare dinner, then sit in front of the dumb box watching Masterchef Australia for an hour, another couple of hours watching whatever I have on my computer.

I’m in the process of streamlining the living room, with the TV, a computer, an audio/video receiver and speakers plus a Playstation 3. The TV and AVR have a remote each, the PS3 it’s own controller and you need a keyboard and mouse to run the computer. So I got a Logitech Harmony universal remote to rule over them all. The remote controls various devices after you program it from a central database and you can set it to sequentially startup all the devices you need to do a certain activity. I’ve always had issue going to people’s places and I’m always fumbling with the various remote controls just to do something. I usually just give up and get the host to set it up for me. At the moment the Harmony remote controls everything but the computer, and I’ll just grab a cheapo $10 IR receiver from eBay to work out that issue. Once the living room is sorted, I’ll start working on the different areas with the backyard garden the last item I’d be looking at.

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Need to work out some schedules. Already signed up for 2 subjects of CPA to be taken at the end of October so I really need to allocate my time appropriately.

My 21km run is next Sunday. Haven’t really prepared for it with all the moving and the weather’s been really horribly cold of late. I survived harsher temperatures in NYC, but when your rent covers your electricity bill, you don’t turn off the heater, heh. Will do a final run tomorrow and just hope my body can last the 21km run.

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Just need to get the second coat of paint on room now before getting ready for dinner. Heh.