I hate Darius

My driveway is almost done, however some neighborhood kid has gotten themselves on my death list.

"Darius King Man"

Was this really necessary Darius? I hope you go through the pleasure and pain of house-building one day, only to have someone vandalise 4.5 metres of your driveway wet concrete. I hope you get a big tattoo from a dyslexic artist. I can only hope.

At least improve your grammar. "King" implies a male, so "Man" is superfluous. I know it was only scrawled there so the whole width of the driveway would be vandalised.

Moses had a point. I'd be happy with eye-for-an-eye justice. If only I could catch the bastard.

Anyway, here's an image of my driveway pattern: Stamped coloured concrete.
Bushrock stamp, light terracotta base with burgundy release agent.

Cable broadband, driveway and pavement

I've got internet now! Blogging can begin again.

Work on my driveway and pavement has begun. Because I flipped my garage from one side to the other I have to redo the council pavement part as well (also because there are a couple of small cracks there too).
 

 

What it looked like after 1 or 2 hours 

  

 

How it looked at the end of the day 

Why did I do this? To get a north facing lounge, NE-facing study and dining, and east facing kitchen. Instead of a north facing garage. What a waste that would have been. This is part of the reason I've skipped out on lots of other nice features, to keep within budget.

Also, the T3lstra technician came today and set up the cable broadband. Five rooms in this house have data sockets all terminated in the study room. In my opinion this is 3 too many but hey, later if the rooms get rented out it'll be nice for the tenants. The building company had the line put in underground, and by default they gave me T3lstra. Perhaps I should have specified I wanted the 0ptus cables in there also just in case, but oh well.

Blogging can begin again. To be honest I can't see myself using the internet as much as I used to, there's still sooooooooooooo much to do on the house. Like my little slice of rainforest...

MOVED IN

We moved 3 Sept 2010, and I still can't believe it. Feels like I'm on a break in someone else's holiday house.

It rained, but I covered the limestone tiles and carpet with rugs, carpet offcuts and every bedsheet i could get my hands on.

Tip#1: Think about what you can't live without, and put them in a box. Don't lose this box. (I've lost all my underwear)
Tip#2: Parents don't label anything. Do it yourself.