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We had Reagan’s 3rd Birthday Party on the 17th and then the 18th was Sunday, so I decided to take a nap and take the Lord’s day off 🙂

The Power Steering also went out on the Van so Sunday was spent diagnosing and getting parts for that as well… one project at a time.

Will get back to work on Monday to finish-up the framing and maybe start on insulation…

I think I’m going to also run one last CAT-5 cable over to the TV area so that I can network our Wii or a future TiVo if I ever do get a 37″-40″ TV over in that North-East corner. Easier to do it now than when Drywall is up.

This project is taking longer than I expected, but I expected that 😉

A safe work area is a clean work area...

All 6 LED lights are up - Just the right brightness (yes!)

Got some more plugs wired and an another CAT-5 cable in

Plug wired

more plugs for the "TV Area"

Light in the closet wired

The other plug in the "TV Area" (North Wall)

Last two electrical outlet (North Wall)

I didn’t do too much else during “nap time” but it’s a good start. Tomorrow, I hope to do all the rest of the wiring:

Brought electricity to an outlet and started wiring the switch

Switch wired (power off, light provided by my camping lamp)

The light is wired...

Holy Cow! It works...

Today is Reagan’s 3rd birthday! I can hardly believe it!

As a result, I planned to spend the day with her and not work in the basement.

Then I remembered that she goes to school at 9:30am so I could do a little this morning, as long as I didn’t mess-up my clothes or need to take a shower etc. 😉

So, I did a little this morning, now I’m going to post this, eat lunch and have a fun birthday day with my oldest daughter 🙂

I plan on doing some “quiet work” like some wiring and thinking tonight after the girls go to bed, but we’ll see (I’m living on ibuprofen right now).

Starting to fram the office door

making sure it's secured to the existing wall, ceiling, and over to the new wall to make sure it's all solid and square

plumb back and forth as well as side to side, and rock solid (tying into existing work while thinking around A/C ducts can be tricky)

firmed-up and squared up the "free standing" part of the wall and anchored it to the wall with treated lumber and concrete nails shot in with gun powder (still very fun)

Today, I was a little more sore than I expected!

It all took a little longer than I expected, especially framing the closet and thinking through how to do the wall under the A/C duct etc. It also takes longer when you realize that a wall is not plumb and so you tear it down and do it over (fun times).

Framed in the closet and added a "pull chain light"

more framing of the closet

Put in some boxes and scabbed in something for the future bookshelves to nail to in the corner

put a runner by the pipes and stuff to protect them and something for the drywall to stop at

starting to frame the "short wall" under the A/C duct

finished framing (roughly) the short wall

framed the wall beyond the office with a 36" (with drywall) opening towards the future bathroom (this got out of plumb, so I got to do it twice)