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Hannah and I recently decided we should try and update our TV room since we’re spending a little more time in it during the dark winter days.

First things first, the faded white walls weren’t very inspiring, so we thought repainting would be a nice quick update.

Fresh coat of paint: check

Uh, that orange tinted paint sure didn’t look so bright on the little swatch from the store. Hmmm….. I guess the name “Pumpkin Spice” should have tipped us off. Oh well, I can live with a pumpkin room for a little while. Actually, it looks pretty good now that the paint has actually dried. We’ve convinced ourselves it’s more of an orange brown than a pumpkin.

Alright, here comes the redecorating tip:

If you’re going to add furniture to a room, it’s important to know how the dimensions of that room is first.

We found a great sectional couch the other day that would have been perfect for a Pumpkin Spice receding to Orange Brown room, but we just did the eye-ball measurement trick. That’s probably fine for those with a keen sense of space, but I am certainly not that guy. However, I sometimes forget that. Which can cause problems. This was one of those times.

We hired a company to deliver the sectional to our freshly painted and empty room, but upon delivery I found out it wouldn’t fit (Hannah wasn’t there for the delivery).

The room was big enough, but the delivery guys were having a tough time negotiating the corner to get the pieces into the room. Basically, they were worried about damaging the walls and/or the furniture in order to make it fit, and didn’t want to go any further.

Long story short: I ended up sending the couch back and we now have an empty orange room.

The paint on the walls does liven up the room quite a bit, but I don’t know if watching TV on the floor is exactly an improvement. Luckily, we have a Charlie Brown Style Christmas Tree to lounge around in the other room.

I was awakened the other morning by a fearless spider hunter (Hannah)

She informed me that there was a huge spider in the house, but she had caught it.

I assumed this meant caught and removed. I was wrong.

Upon walking into the kitchen a few minutes later I noticed a cup placed

over a spider.

Luckily, our dog was standing guard.

I seem to get flat tires on my bike about as often as … as… something that happens pretty frequently and would be funny (commentors help me fill in the blank.  ).  Seriously, I think I’m going to start a tally on the blog that tracks all of the replacement parts I get for my bike, because there always seems to be something.  Ah, the life of a bike commuter.

Now, I don’t commute full time.  Don’t let me mislead you.  However, I had been riding my bike to and from work every Monday.  This was starting to be a great way for me to get some bike riding time in.  In fact, I enjoyed it so much that the days getting shorter didn’t bother me at all, because I took advantage of Mr. Thomas Edison’s lightbulb invention and strapped one to my handlebars.  Hahah!  Not even nightfall could keep me from my rides.  That is until I ran over a hole cover while riding in the dark a couple weeks ago.

There I was cruising along behind a fellow night rider (not sure this is the official term, but I like it), and thinking to myself how great it was to be out for a ride when most of the other Seattle area commuters were fighting gridlock.  And it was great until a loud noise caught my attention.

Apparently, I ran over a cover for a hole in the ground that allows the parks and rec staff to put up posts at trailheads and remove the posts when they need to drive a vehicle down the trail.  This is nice and convenient for them, but not so much for my bike tire.  The grate jumped up in the bike fork, and punctured the tube inside my tire.  Luckily, there was no crashing involved.  Only a little walking.  At least until Hannah came and picked me up.  I owe her big time.  Riding the late night metro bus in spandex isn’t exactly an exprience I’m ready to have just yet.

Bike Parts Tally

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1 inner tube