Details, details, details.

It really is what separates the good from The Great. Apple computers has an amazing ability to focus on the very fine details of the products and they've been rewarded for that over and over.

Sherry and I also have a decent eye for details and that's where we're working now. There are a TON of details that need to be wrapped up in the next several weeks before we do our actual Launch Event. It's a little scary.

We'll keep you posted.

For now we're still trying to wrap up the Financing details for our Solar Array. We met with the Lawyer today and I think we have everything in place to pay for the solar array which is scheduled to be installed next week.

We should generate more than enough electricity to run our place and with all the extra insulation we've installed we're making the ecological footprint of our place smaller and smaller. We've even planted 1075 trees with the idea that we can generate renewable heating energy a few years from now.

(Just as an aside, a tree grows by taking Carbon (booo!) from the air and replacing it with Oxygen (yaaaa!) When it burns it does release some of that carbon, but it can't release more than it absorbed while it was growing – meaning that heating with wood is at worst 'carbon neutral'!)

With our attention to details we know that your stay here is Bound to Please!

It seems that we have a pattern here at Bound To Please: Rip, Renew, Restore, Repeat.

(I love alliteration!)

First we Rip something apart (usually completely!) then we Renew whatever we're working on, Restore the space and then do that over and over and over and…

Most recently we did my office floors (which will likely turn into a rentable bedroom at some point in the future!)

We're finally on the Restore step and hopefully it'll be a little bit before the Repeat kicks in (which is always does).

The floors are finished and look fantastic, but I'm still operating from a temporary office while we wait for the new desk to be built. Hopefully that'll come sooner rather than later.

We seem to manage to involve most of the house when we do our projects too. Sherry and I are having a few couples over tonight and Sherry's been working like a madman (madwoman?) for the last couple of days trying to get rid of all the dust and clutter so we'll have a comfy place to sit and enjoy.

It's nice to be between the Restore and Rip stages – I may spend a little time here and do an art project or something. Whatever we end up doing… with this much momentum… I'm sure it's Bound to Please!

I think it's finally sunk in.

We really are insane.

Let me back the truck up.

I sit for a living. I get paid to sit and think. I get paid to sit, think and occasionally type. I sit for a living.

About this time last year a friend of mine who also sits for a living showed me all the bad things that start to happen to your body and its chemistry once you stop moving. They said that a farmer has one of the healthiest bodies known to man – they make thousands of movements per day and apparently programmers make seven. All bathroom trips.

So, in line with the brilliant problem solver that I am I asked Google what to do about it.

I came across a guy that built a 'Walking Desk'. He invented them several years ago and now Steelcase makes one complete with the treadmill and everything. They charge way more than I can afford. Bummer.

But Wait! I know how to weld – and I'm a brilliant problem solver (you knew that about me, right?)

I decided to build one.

I've been slowly (very slowly!) gathering the materials that I need. The most elusive one has been the treadmill.

Well… the treadmill arrives early next week. So I decided that I should move my desk.

That's when my wife jumped in and said that if I'm going to move the desk then she is going to have to paint the walls. Dang.

While we were moving the desk to paint the walls, I had the brilliant idea to look under the carpet in my office. It has the same hardwood floors that we refinished for The Southern Comfort Room.

Having been through that once before and having learned from our mistakes… how hard could it be to refinish these floors too?

(Just as a side note I've been told that the brain has a hard time remembering 'pain'. That sort of makes sense otherwise every family would have exactly one child per couple. I suspect that my brain also forgets the amount of work involved in a DIY project).

We tore up the carpet and started to dig in.

One of the unique challenges for this floor was that two of the main planks had grown bumps in the middle (they 'swelled'? they 'grew'? they 'warped'?)

I own an electric planer (two actually – one handheld and one stationary one that you run the board through). I took the hand planer to the board and within minutes the bump was gone and so was all of the paint on the bump.

The paint! Oh, the paint! I remember the paint! When we re-did the SCR's floors (if you haven't read the story or forgot my pain I suggest that you go back and read it again).

Now I have a handy little tool that'll take paint off in a jiffy!

I had no idea how hard 'paint' would be on the blades in my planer. I've gone through eight blades already and will be headed into town for more tonight. Yikes!

The floors look amazing already and the Big Sanding Machine is already rented for tomorrow morning.

It's already been painful, but I just can't wait until those floors match your (temporary) bedroom here.

I know that they'll be so beautiful that they're Bound to Please!