I met with the construction foreman for the house last Thursday (May 12) and we went over the drawings. We found several things that needed to be corrected, but nothing was too terrible. Tonight, on the way home from work, I decided to swing by and see if any progress had been made and it looks like they delivered some concrete and re-bar for the foundation. The in-slab plumbing looks complete, but I don't see any electrical done yet, so I think that'll need to be done before they pour. We also decided on the exterior colors. We're going with color scheme #3 (Poco w/Slate). Here's a rendering of our actual model with the colors (or, as close as I could guest-imate): It started raining a lot today, and it looks to be this way for a few more days, so I'll probably not check back in on the house until...
Month: May 2016
Quick Cap Recap
Sunday we went and saw Captain America: Civil War at the AMC West Shore. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone and go into details, but I loved it and would like to see it again in the theater. It was a long movie, but flew by. Yesterday was a big day - I resigned from my day job. I have something lined up. More to come. I'm now going to spend time organizing all of the comics we bought on Saturday.
Full of Renders, Comics, and BBQ
I was able to get the final render for SCS047 off to Carl this morning. I found that supporting an alpha channel in the animation required QuickTime using the Animation codec with a depth Millions+ of colors. Today was Free Comic Book Day. The whole family participated as we visited Emerald City Comics in Pinellas Park and The Comics Club in Brandon. We got a ton of stuff that I'm too tired to list here, but all-in-all, got some fantastic deals and bunch of fun reading material (and games!). We grabbed some food at a BBQ kiosk outside Emerald City and some Mexican at Vallarta's in Brandon later in the day. After all of that, since Melissa was back in town for the last day or two, we took her by the new house. Nothing's changed since the photo's I posted yesterday, but neither of the girls has been to...
House Photos
We swung by the lot today and saw some of the early work. The basic framing where the slab will go is complete and they've run most of the plumbing. [caption id="attachment_524" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Cari standing where the master bedroom will be.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_525" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Standing where the property line is. We'll have a decent backyard and pool.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_526" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Looking out toward the front.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_527" align="aligncenter" width="640"] In the front yard, looking into the lot.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_528" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The plumbing for the master bathroom sinks (foreground), master bathroom shower and tub (midground), and guest bathroom and laundry room (background).[/caption]
All Sorts of News
A lot has happened since my last post. I'll start with the more mundane... I had trouble rendering SCS047 and guessed it was a Windows issue with my main workstation. So, about a week ago, I reformatted the box and re-installed everything. Since this is pretty painful to do, I thought it might be nice to make my C: drive an SSD, so I bought one and installed it. I made my old 1TB HD a secondary drive and installed less-used software to it. I also had a bunch of unused RAM laying around, so I upgraded the machine from 8GB to 16GB. I'll most likely up it to 32GB in the coming months. I got everything shiny and new, fired up LightWave and ... the application crashed again. So, I decided it was time to upgrade from LightWave 10 to LightWave 2015.3, which ended up curing the problems. SO,...
