Day 2, Wednesday

As planned much of the day was pre-work on the hardwoods.

To replace the carpets in the living room and dining/piano room with hardwoods (thanks doggies), we need to get all of the furniture out of the way.  For the most part Monica and I could move the items ourselves, but there's the matter of a huge, heavy piano so we hired professionals to store everything in our garage for a month.

Got in a quick workout before the movers were scheduled to arrive at 10 AM.  Unfortunately there was a car fire on the 520 bridge and even more unfortunate they chose to take 520 instead of coming across I-90 which delayed them until 10:45.   Other than that the move went smoothly.  The wood delivery showed up at 11, but they kept out of each other's way though they were using the same space.  Move was done by noon.

My little project for the day was to fix the outdoor light for our backyard. At least I thought it was little -- position ladder, remove bulb, replace bulb.  That didn't help.  The light is on a programmable timer switch and it turns out the batteries in the switch needed to be replaced.  Had to go to Fred Meyer to get tiny watch-like batteries.. and now the switch works but the light doesn't come on.  Working more on this today.  Also picked up a programmable lock for the garage -- the kind where you can punch in a combination instead of using a key.  Our garage is detached so we need to unlock it every time we go in there.  This probably would have happened a year ago if there was room for my car in there.

Went to the Mariners game last night.  Pretty good for 7 innings, but overall yuck.  It's pretty painful to watch Griffey play.  And without Bradley, that offense is terrible.

Off to play poker in the AM.