The great-floor-project went incredibly well, minus a few snags (such as a high spot in the concrete subfloor, which lead me to confuse the idiots at Home Depot with the question "So, how do you grind concrete?"), and a couple late nights. All the planks are down, and the molding has been started (though not completed). I had a suprising amount of help, which I am really thankful for, because I don't think there's any way I could have done it on my own. It feels good to know there are people around when you need an extra 3 or 4 or 5 sets of hands (and in turn, I think I will be peeling some wallpaper and building hot tob decks and moving furniture for them...) and someone to tell you "Well, if you reall want you can lay the planks down randomly, or you can do it pseudorandomly."

And that, my friends, is how you replace 400 square feet of carpet with laminate (for those of you who don't know, laminate is basically fake hard-wood). The floor looks excellent. I will try to get a picture and put it up for you.

In the meantime, we basically created a dust storm (insidious concrete dust), that it shut down the A/C sometime early Sunday morning (making it really hot working yesterday). So, I'm sitting here waiting for the A/C guy to come clean everything out. After that, I have one of my less favorite activities - a tooth cleaning. Then, off to work.