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For those of you who like this sort of thing....
Caesar and Mina are very excited to have their floors and furniture mostly back in the right place now.
So today, we finally got our furniture back. It almost looks like our house again.
If you look closely at the fireplace, you'll see the new art we bought last week. Ironically, its a painting of three trees.
I have also included a bonus picture of some happy dogs, who now have their house back.
Well, we had quite an adventure with the floor install. The product line was discontinued, and the batch we got wasn't milled right. But the team from Lindsey's Flooring hand-milled the grooves between the boards, with permission from the Armstrong distributor, so the warranty is still good.
Some shots from today. They should finish tomorrow.
The installers came this morning to start putting in the new floor. One problem -- two high ridges in the slab meant that they had to spend most of the day applying concrete patch and waiting for it to dry.
But now we have the line board laid, waiting for it to harden, so the rest of the installation can move forward. Expect big progress tomorrow...
So here is the second batch of photos from Saturday in Szeged.
Nik LePage, too cool to pose.
Bonnie Bogle of Development Seed
Eric Gundersen of Development Seed
Andrew Morton (drewish) and Jakob Petsovits (jpetso)
Adam Kalsey of WorkHabit (correctly captioned this time)
Alex Barth of Development Seed
Barry Jaspan of Acquia
Leslie Hawthorn of Google (Summer of Code)
And I mean that in a good way.
I am sitting in a hotel room in Budapest, recovering a bit from a long week at DrupalCON Szeged. For me, he highlights of DrupalCON are always the chance to meet people that I only know by handle and reputation. Sure, I attend a few sessions (two per day, usually), but I spend more time doing things like having impromptu meetings with Swedish newspaper programming teams (see below).
I have a whole bunch of photos from the last day of DrupalCON, below are a few highlights.
The Dom, the most famous building in Szeged.
Hungary is history-rich. This is a detail from World War I memorial carvings on a gate near the venue.
The venue at Szeged; I thought this was the best venue yet, and it had the best wireless I have ever used at any conference.
The team from Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri, who, I think, tried to find me all week for a chat about Drupal, which we finally had on Saturday.
The Drupal crowd during lunch. Notice all the conversation groups.
The King of Denmark, showing "Sex, Drupal and Rock and Roll."
Alex Barth (Development Seed) and I make fun of each other for taking pictures.
Gabor (standing) and Kristof at the closing, where Kristof is playing the "Drupal Song" on a traditional Hungarian instrument. hats off to both for an excellent conference.
My wife, on the right, with Paula and baby Johan. We met Paula and husband Phillipp at DrupalCON Barcelona, when she was pregnant. The best part of Szeged was reconnecting with the friends we had made last year. The non-attending partners even started a Drupal group to coordinate events for future DrupalCONs.
Yes, we are actually in Hungary. Here's a photo from the top of Buda Castle to "prove" it.
So we're getting there on the house repairs. Some quick pix to show (among other things) the new wall color that replaces the old walnut paneling in the den and the rebuilt corner of the house.
Well, alright. Just under two weeks later, we have a roof over our heads again. Big thanks to Matt at First General and to Jay and Red (and crew) from Premier Construction.
Last night we almost got hit by another thunderstorm -- hail and 60 mph winds were reported in the county. But it never rained at the house, which is good, since the roof wasn't fully shingled yet.
The construction started before 6:00 each of the last three days. Until today. the high in Augusta was over 102°, so they wanted to get working before it became too hot.
I will be offline for quite a bit over the next few weeks. We suffered some severe storm damage yesterday. Everyone is ok, but we have lots of work to do to get our house back in shape.
See Day one Flickr set for more or the Morning after set.
A big thanks, by the way, to all the guys from Stallion and First General for their work last night.
After the cleanup, we have this:
