So I’m going to shamelessly brag about my fifteen seconds of newfound Internet fame.

A long story short (as possible), I read Jason DeRusha’s “DeBlog” pretty religiously. There’s some good stuff in there. Last evening there was a post about new fashions that he and the big Shelby were sporting. This led me to his Flickr photostream, and I encountered several interesting and newer pictures (including the scary one of Darcy holding a real or very real looking gun on live TV).

Needless to say, I also ran into the pictures to shortly thereafter be featured as a mini-contest of sorts. Being the avid Flickrite that I’ve recently become, I added a comment to the after picture (if you click the after picture on the blog entry you can see it) about his funky looking hair during a live shot the night before.

I also then ended up sending him an email about the situation as it were. I got a reply pretty shortly thereafter, which was nice. 🙂

So tonight I see that he’d actually turned the whole before/after thing into a blog post (and not just a Flickr thing as I originally thought). So I studied the pictures and figured out that it was an eyebrow wax job. Of course, I send an email about it with my official guess.

Literally, a minute later, I get a reply from him telling me that I indeed guessed correctly and that he’d just posted the answer a few minutes prior to my guess.

To my surprise, it was my comment about the hair volume thing that was first to be listed of inaccurate guesses. I feel honored. 🙂 I made DeBlog!

So that’s kinda random and cool. At least if you ask me. Makes me feel worthy of the 132 I scored on the Simple-IQ test I took the other night. 🙂

In other business, I managed to get some outdoor painting done this afternoon. I did some touch-up scraping (as necessary) on some of the storm windows which haven’t been touched now for two years and repainted. There were some places where the old paint didn’t come off during the last scraping that were now coming loose. I will need to do a final topcoat on all of them (not just the touch-up spots as I did tonight), but they are protected from the elements for the time being with two coats of paint.

I also painted the exposed wood around the new basement windows. They’d been caulked up, but there was still a little bit of exposed wood on either side of each new window that needed to be addressed. I then turned my attention to the side door to the garage. I ended up ripping off the old door trim and replaced it with the unused bits I found in the garage some time ago. Those need to be painted blue (which I didn’t get to do tonight), but I did finally paint the exterior of the side door (which had been bare plywood for on the order of a year), so that’s all taken care of.

So the majority of my outdoor painting projects were completed (or at least started), even though I still have some more work to do. It’s good to have it started and in some cases finished. Makes me feel productive!

And that’s about all that’s new tonight. Tomorrow’s Friday, so that means another weekend…and since it’s likely to be somewhat inclement weather-wise, I will likely be at home and able to complete a few indoor projects around here. That’ll be nice.

Until next time…

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”
– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

–MZ