This weekend consisted of me: hanging plywood on all my walls in the garage, painting said plywood, loading up 920 lbs of junk from my garage into my old Dodge truck and hauling it to the local dump.  Playing SIX games of softball on Sunday (makeups due to rain). And somehow drinking 15 beers and winning over 50$ playing Poker on Saturday night.  Needless to say, I am tired.

So, I decided to finish my garage out after receiving word from my folks that they were getting new furniture and didn’t want to throw away the existing stuff they had.  So I figured I’d finish the garage out before putting it in there.

My garage (and basement) are different from most.  My walls are poured concrete up to about the 4 foot mark. Then its stud walls up to the ceiling.  The ceiling was already rough drywalled so I only have to paint that part.   On the walls I hung 3/8 in. plywood instead of drywall for it’s durability and the fact that I can screw directly into it without having to find a stud.  Then I painted all the wood with a semigloss white paint.

I had planned on using an acrylic based concrete sealant on the lower part of the wall but after testing it out on a small area I realized the finish would end up being too flat for my liking so I will be returning the can and getting something water based with more of a semigloss or gloss finish to it.

I had a bunch of old furniture in the garage that I figured I could use parts of for shelving.  So I went to work on our old entertainment center, and my daughter’s old headboard with my trusty circular saw and what you see below are some of the finished shelves mounted to the newly painted plywood walls.

More to come!

I am posting this directly from my iPhone using the wordpress app!

Be sure to check out http://qik.com/theglog. It’s a new app I installed that let’s me stream LIVE video + sound directly from my iPhone!!!

It’s not like I haven’t already been using the 3.0 software already (ahem Torrents), but Apple has finally after I think 6 or so “betas”, released the official 3.0 software (that I am downloading as I type this).

The best features of this update have got to be landscape keyboard  for email/sms/web/notes.  And cut/copy + paste.  Which just about all the Iphone/Ipod touch users have been BEGGING for since the release.

Now I stood in line for 3hrs on release day back in 2006 to get my 1st gen Iphone (for $600.00) and upgraded to the 3G model about a month ago (for $199.00).  Now Apple goes and releases the Iphone 3G “s” (for speed) and lowers the price of the 3G to $99.00 (yeah eff you too Apple).  I managed to sell my original Iphone to a friend for $100.00 so I guess (including the $100.00 gift card from Apple) have spent about $600.00 total on my 2 phones.  So NO, I will not be buying a 3Gs untill either my 3G dies or gets stolen.  Apps load just fine for me on my 3G.

Now if Apple could only figure out how to get REAL FLASH SUPPORT on the Iphone I would be happy. Cmon guys, its been 3 years, I’m sure you and Adobe can figure out something already.

Well I’m off to install my new software, note to other Iphone users, make sure you create a backup of your existing Iphone before updating any software.  I guess I will be Jailbreaking it again! Head on over to www.quickpwn.com for all the jailbreaking goodness you can handle.

For a direct download of the 3.0 software check out Sizlopedia here: http://www.sizlopedia.com/2009/06/17/iphone-30-firmware-download/