Patrick

The push up challenge is officially hard. I am going to repeat week three next week. I didn’t complete all five sets on any of the three days. Week four doesn’t apear to be much different than week three, but I didn’t finish wee three, so no advancement.

The house is really cruising along. It looks like they have the dry-wall up. They’ve been doing something to the outside all weekend. I haven’t had a chance to get in and take pictures all week. They’re working hard and that’s a good thing. I couldn’t believe someone was working until 6:00pm on a Saturday… Hopefully, I’ll get in and take photos tomorrow. I like progress pictures!

My best news is my day job. My boss and I have been talking about me travelling less for quite some time. The challenge was that I was already booked through most of July several months ago. So, the new schedule is starting up and I am definitely traveling less these days and my boss is definitely the person to thank for that!

That’s about where I am these days.

Here’s my results on Day 1 - week 3 of the Hundred Pushup challenge.

Well, as I suspected, week 3 is a little harder. I’m not sure if this was affected because of the weekend trekking about in mountains. I might still be a little exhausted. I’m a little sick as well. Mucinex is made of AWESOME. I’m going to see how the next two days of week 3 goes.

Five ventured forth(Though one drifted back to take a lot of photos)

Saw some cool sights and told some great stories.

“Last time we were here, the water was THIS high!!!”

And that fifth one –

He made it back, too.*

Then the next day, we went fishing.

And caught some fish*

All in all, a pretty good weekend. How was yours?

*Some details excluded to protect the innocent!

Well, I’m off. I’ll probably putter around the internet for about half the day today before I shutdown for the weekend. I’m headed to New Hampshire for a hiking trip. Using the internet, while probably possible, just seems wrong. I should come back with lots of photos.

Here’s my results on Day 3 - week 2 of the Hundred Pushup challenge. (Yes, I know I didn’t post Day 2 of week 2. That’s because I am not sure whether I skipped level 4 or not. I got distracted since the break in between gets longer and then got confused.)

Week 3 looks to be a bit more of a challenge!

So, here I am in NYC. I brought the new camera and am having some fun with it.

You might see some more of these photos over the next few days.

Here’s my results on Day 1 - week 2 of the Hundred Pushup challenge.

You can see that they have added a few windows(and doors).

Yolanda asked in the previous update comments “It must be very interesting. What is the usual procedure to build a house?”

To be honest, I’m not sure what is usual. I was talking with my soon-to-be new neighbor about how strange the process is. Compared to buying an existing house, it is very strange because you select so much from either a sample or from a design on paper. Tthen you forget what you ordered and they build it 4-6 months later and then you are surprised.

It’s a little surprising to walk through the house right now. I just uploaded a bunch of photos I took from inside the house today. I couldn’t remember where the upstairs family bathroom was. The loft at the top of the stairs looks bigger than I expected. The master shower is smaller than I was thinking.

My particular builder is like buying a ‘custom’ computer from Dell as opposed to walking into your local computer shop where they order each part individually. Dell basically lets you choose from a menu so it is customized, but limited in choices. That’s probably better, because I would get lost in all the various things that go into building a house.

This shot is from my formal dining room, looking through my kitchen and into the family room.