The pattern is burned into my retinas...
 

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Originally posted by BlackCat
http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...smilies/hm.gif nice pics of tiles isn't exactly proof of you getting your hands dirty. It's just a little self-depreciating humor to lead into the subject matter. Don't worry your poor little head over it.

Those floors are beautiful! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/heart.gif

If one bathes in the the master bathroom, is one then masterbather?

Originally posted by VetLegion
The wall tiles will be harder. Yah... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/scared.gif

Originally posted by Krill


As the saying goes, don;t worry, be happy. Worrying only ever makes things more diffcult to do, and it'll be done soon, Just as long as it's "don't worry, be happy" and not "smile, smile, smile"...

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mcferrin.asp

Wow. How do you shoot yourself in teh heart with a rifle. That guy must have had real long arms.

The big room, laundry, and bath is poured cement/foundation. The original portion of the house has a crawlspace, with wood joists... but in order to get the second story in without violating the allowable height in the neighborhood, we had to set the addition down about 3 feet, so ground level. That's because the lot has a slight slope to it, about 5 feet from street to alley. Gives the upstairs some partial views on the ocean though, which is nice.

The master bath is upstairs. There we painted on a waterproof membrane over the flooring. (The membrane is the greenish stuff crawling the walls.) We taped/membraned the joint between the floor and walls too. Then put a layer of thin hardibacker board across the floor as well, with the thinset going directly on that.

Originally posted by Lancer
The flex caused by normal movement of floor joists causes the grout to crack unless you get the flexible grout, but you knew that right? I'm sure my cousin knows that... he really researches everything we do first. I'm not really in charge of operations... My cousin decides what needs to be done... I just do grunt work, post on poly, and go to the beach.

Originally posted by Cort Haus


I am envious of the life style you have achieved, Congratulations. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif It's pretty good I admit... cept girls don't tend to look on the whole ~$0 net worth very favorably.

Aeson, the original surfer dude http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

Anyway, all you really need to do is start up that computer business, right?

mmm... rocks...

Hey, my hospital has the same tile.

http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif ACK!

Ahh, I watched it again and see you have your plants in. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

Yep... the plants really help it look less like a pile of rocks. They're doing pretty well considering we planted them in August and it's been 90F+ and dry every day.

I was planning on bringing an old laptop over. It's got a wireless LAN. (So does my desktop, but I think I'll give it to my brother or something.) I do a bit of work online, only takes a couple minutes a day though, and that only from late March till October. The only problem with the laptop is it has a graphics/heat problem and doesn't like to function after about 30 minutes or so. (Which admittedly might be a good thing.) That and it doesn't have firewire, so my mini-DV camera can't transfer to it from tape (but can from SD card).

Was looking for internet service just yesterday. Smart has a prepaid nationwide (Philippines) wireless service, P3800 for the equipment, and P10 per half hour block of used time. Was planning on something like that, though if I can leech off yours that's even better http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

http://smart.com.ph/Corporate/Brands/SmartBro/

Keep forgetting to get a 220 to 110 converter. Would just need it to recharge the batteries on my camera and laptop.

Wall plugs are the same. Sure, without a doubt you can use our Smartbro connection. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

There's alot of gaming time over there in between having a blast. Will your laptop handle it? Particularly if it gets hot...I mean its hot there. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

My comp there has a switch between 110/220 but I never trusted that it would work...and I've burned my playstation too many times there because the plugs are the same to burn my comp by flipping a switch. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/redface.gif

I listed the baggage allowance in the other thread. Regarding the case, I don't know how cheap it is but there are a couple of places in two different malls that assemble comps so I guess they sell cases.

I had no problem bringing my desktop. I wrote down the dimention listed in the baggage inst, went to my local walmart and bought a box that was slightly less than the inst. Then I put foam around my comp in the box and checked it in at the airport when we traveled. The camping foam I got was 2 inches thick sleeping pad. I cut the pad up and fit it around the comp. Made chair pillows out of it over there. The monitor I got there but if you have an lcd type monitor it should fit.

Remember you can check >>2

I can't wait. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif