The return of the face painter
Monday, October 31, 2005 at 6:50AM Dateline: Indy, 31 October 2005
Today I resurrect my face-painting skills at my kids' school in honor of Halloween. The apartment grows crowded with so many superheroes prowling around.
We'll walk our new neighborhood tonight, introducing ourselves to future neighbors.
Alas, we have decided, during construction, on tricking up the house so much that we're unlikely to enter it until mid-spring. When you choose carpet, it all gets done in roughly a day, but when you choose quarter-cut oak planking of various widths alternating, to be finished in-construction, then you're looking at roughly two weeks of work.
It's choices like that, plus a myriad of others, that end up lengthening the construction that otherwise proceeds quite smartly. But what the hell, I don't plan on building again, so if we're going to stay in Indianapolis for the long haul, we might as well build the house we really want the way we want it.
Here's the daily catch:
■ The counter-reality on Japan and China■ The home team is weak right as the away game gets huge
■ The virtuous circle on security: the slippery-slope to resiliency
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