I spent a day moving a hot tub. Now this isn't quite as arduous as you might think. What I have is a large SofTub, which is about 6 feet across and can easily be moved/dragged/tugged around. two people make it move faster, though. Now the location we had it at was right off of our patio, which was right off of the bedroom. due to some poor planning on my part, i neglected to take into account the noise factor of a hot tub kicking on in the middle of the night. after a few nights of this I did put a switch on there to prevent it from coming on after 10, but even then, I knew I would have to muve that sucker. I already had a place picked out - just on the other side of the patio, about fifteen feet away.
Moving the hot tub involves three major steps. First I have to move the hot tub to a completely unrelated location. this is so I can do the second step, which is move the cement blocks to the new location. Finally I could move the hot tub to the new location. After a couple of minutes hooking up the pump (the SofTub has an external pump, which also acts as a heater) and the rest of the day filling it with a garden hose I was ready to turn it on. Even then I couldn't get in for a while because the water was a balmy sixty degrees, which for me is a bit cold. it would take a couple of days to warm it up fully.
Getting grass to grow is my next task for that area. I have a decent lawn, I take care of it, but this is a hundred square foot area of dirt. A trip to Lowes later I had grass seed, and shortly after that had it spread out and watered. I'll have to do that for a few weeks until it takes hold good, and then the regular sprinklers can do their job.
I've been teaching my daughter how to rid a bike. She was a complete chicken for the longest time, but after it finally annoyed me enough I removed a training wheel. She adapted and complained. After a couple of weeks I removed the other training wheel. She complained again. finally this past weekend I got her on the bike and we kept working at it until she could traverse the length of the driveway - about sixty feet. And after a few more days of practice, a scraped knee or two, and a couple of bumps, we rode our bikes to school, and will ride them back this evening. She's about to outgrow her bike, though. I think the Easter bunny might have to bring a new one since her birthday is still three months off.
So where will the next few months lead? I've got a few things planned to do, so here's the list.
1) Scarborough Faire (http://www.srfestival.com/) - I'm the performing company music director, and as such, need to be out there a good chunk of the time. I've been doing this quite a while, and it is worthy of another blog entry a bit later.
2) Learning - I'm planning on taking a couple of classes in Azure and possibly a few other things. some of these land on the weekends, but that is normal. I'll work them in as I can.
3) Get my wife through her final semester - She's been working on the Dental Hygiene program at Collin College for the past two years. She's taken her board exams a couple of weeks ago, and has six weeks of classes left. just doing the chores around the house helps a lot there.
4) Personal Projects. the weather watcher, the mail categorizer, and a couple of others creeping about in the back of my head. I've started some of this stuff, and have also taken the time to rebuild and update my local server machine.
5) Get back to work - I like what I did, but I needed the break. As I discovered when I started this I didn't need a change in venue as much as I needed to take care of family stuff for a while. I might try something new, or go back to the old - that hasn't been written yet.
6) Update my resume - I usually update my resume out on the various job sites about every three or so years, and it's due time. I liken it to feeding time in the shark cage when I toss my resume out there.
7) Vacation - I owe my wife a vacation. we've been talking about it for a while, and once everyone is out of school for the summer (graduated, entering second grade, or whatever) we want to go someplace. We're thinking Disney World, since everyone likes that, but we'll spend some time there this go around, possibly seeeing some of the other sites such as NASA and Busch Gardens.
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