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Some of you may have noticed that I’m still posting to LJ, despite my threat to move to Blogger. Basically, cross-site blog reading just isn’t quite there yet. Maybe someday RSS will be working perfectly with everyone able to use it, but that day isn’t today.

Also, one of my annoyances with LJ was the lack of being able to track the discussions without constantly checking the site. You see, when first signing on to LJ, I unchecked the “Get message board replies” option. This option says “Check this if you want to get e-mail updates when people reply to your journal entries using the message boards (comments).” My problem wasn’t really with checking the comments on my posts, but on the replies to my comments on other people’s posts. So, I never tried the option. But I tried it starting about a week ago and have discovered that it does, in fact, email you when someone replies to a comment you leave on someone else’s post. Had the description of the option said that, I would have tried that much sooner, and been much happier with LJ.

More pictures!

I took most of them a few minutes ago, but some near the beginning are of the construction of the porch.

Also, since I’m on a slow-upload connection, I changed my album generator to have the thumbnails link to 800×600 size images, which in turn link to the full image. Let me know if you prefer this, or if anyone besides me ever looks at the pictures.

`C:\WINNT>ping 192.168.1.210

Pinging 192.168.1.210 with 32 bytes of data:

Hardware error.
Hardware error.
Hardware error.
Hardware error.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.210:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)`

I just received word that there is now a plywood roof on our house!

Also, we’ve just received the first piece of mail in our new mailbox. It is, of course, junk mail.

New contact info for me & Jessi:
194 Berry Corner Rd.
Charlton, MA 01507–5247

Phone number is remaining the same (I love VoIP): 774-490-7314

“They put a house on top of our basement!” — Jessi, when seeing the latest pictures. (Thank you, Ben!)

UPDATE 5/18: As Ben says, even more pictures today! We’ve got a second floor now!

We’ve now got nice walls for the foundation, and the supporting steel beam is up.

And I’ve got a bunch of pictures, too!

Well, it may have seemed as though I’ve fallen off the face of the earth, but I haven’t quite done that yet. I’ve been very busy at work with the New York Stationery Show and with setting up everything for a wonderful partnership that eInvite (whom I indirectly work for) has with Costco. Costco currently links to us from their “Office supplies” section, but they should be linking to us from their home page later this week. It’s been very busy with some long days and weekends, but it’s exciting to see everything coming together.

After looking over Blogger a bit, I think I’m going to be blogging there instead of here. Posts from me from now on will be up at http://cooperjr.blogspot.com/, unless I change my mind later.

See my post there for some of the reasons why.

Latest news from my dad today is that it looks like they’ve just about finished improvements to our segment of Berry Corner Rd. so that the cement truck can come through and poor the footing for the foundation. It’s nice to finally see things progressing after the months of waiting for things.

In sad news, I’m sick today :(

Jessi and I got to see the work done on digging our foundation so far. There’s a lot done in just the couple days they’ve been working. They’re working on the drainage for the road, they’ve flattened out the hills, and they’ve dug a cellar hole. Hopefully, they’ll start pouring the cement for the footing for the foundation this week.

I took pictures!