With in the next couple of years I want to do another reno gut of this place, I’ve already lived though 9 months of renos already in this place. As we redid the kitchen, two bathrooms and curl appeal/better water drainage in the backyard.

My future reno plans would be,

• Rewire the whole house – Instead of a set of 3 light switch’s in one, who ever did the wiring the house made it so there are 3 individual light switches on one wall.
• Correct the mistake of whomever put the breaker box upside down, relabel the breaker box in pen not pencil
• Line up all the over head lights and speakers on the main floor (maybe in my office too) – it looks tacky and just put up with out a care.
• When doing all the work on the ceiling, remove the popcorn ceiling – not a fan of popcorn ceilings anyways, and not all the rooms have it.
• Purchase a bigger furnace and remove the base heaters on the top floor – the builders were being cheap, two floors have air ducks and one doesn’t, but the house was built so you could have it on all the floors.
• Match all three gas fireplaces – two of them don’t have fans built in like the third one does.
• Re-vinyl the whole exterior – to many holes left by changing the gutter’s down spouts location and the old owners using drywall screws to hold up a hose reel. (the gutter guy said they don’t fill in the holes, not even the top floor .. ( I’m willing to do the first, two stories)
• Re tile the entrance way and fix the sub-floor – thanks to the guys doing the bathroom reno, they were given the wrong tiles, and instead of taking it back right away, they left tile in one spot for days and now you can see a drop in the ceiling below.
• Maybe add a big fan to the top floor ceiling that flesh with the ceiling that goes into the attic just so that air can move around a lot better in the summer months and your NOT tripping over fan cords. My grandfolks had one and it was lovely and cooled the whole house down without turning on the AC.
• Add a motion decorator to the side of the house that has a gate/hose reel (tired of walking out there with a flash light when I water my grass at night).

Some of it err most of it is more of me being picky about workmanship and laziness then anything else. But if and when I do sell this place I want it the next owners not have to worry about being mislead.

Paddling-Geek.Net(PGN) turned six years ago back in June (where did the time go?) since then I was working on a new layout for this site but it wasn’t until two Fridays ago, when I was finally had time to change the layout to “Dancing in the Wind”. The photo reminds me that without the wind everything would be standing still, looking lifeless. I took this photo last year when I was one of the people teaching grade 6-7 students how to dragon boat for a month.

Still can’t believe that this is the ninth layout ever made for PGN. Still have to fix the Exit/Link page (never update when tired) and update the Domain page and tweak the layout a bit, not sure why I can’t view the site on my ipod’s touch with the wptouch plugin. Guess its time to start tinkering, if anything else is needing to be updated/fixed please let me know.

When I was looking around for ideas on how I want this layout to look like, I noticed not that many people do the calendars with the icons or use smilies anymore. I may be a few web trends behind because I still like using them, though I find they help break up the page instead of just seeing a full screen of text

Speaking of changes, last Friday, I just fed up with my long hair. The heat wave that we recently had did a number on my hair so I decide to cut 13 inches off to just above my shoulders. Now that I have all natural coloured hair (stopped colouring it about four years but for the tips. [as they were already damaged/coloured hair]) Now I’m finally able to grow out my hair (again) but this time it will be donated for a child’s wig. Which I’ve wanted to do for the last ten years.

With the new hair cut, I went shopping and to my amaze I was able to find two pairs of shoes and three of the five pair of clothing I found on sale. Normally, I am never that lucky. Now if I could be that lucky in the guy department. LOL!

Thank you all for the lovely comments in the last post. I too never knew that birds could live that long. It wasn’t until she passed on I google about the life span on Cocktails and some websites say they could live until they are 30. :zoned: I think I was in more tears when I cleaned the bird cage and her stuff for the last time then I noticed she had passed on.

What was/is the worst website web trend that people still use on their website?
What is the best website web trend out that is out there, and why?