Things have settled down a little this week, but I'm still super busy.

A meeting of the minds of the Sons

Had a meeting with the Sons Of Nothing gang to discuss band publicity and technical details concerning the upcoming October 24 show at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City.

Thom and I are also planning to unveil the new Sons Of Nothing website between now and then. It's actually pretty close to being ready to go. I've got a lot of bells and whistles I want to add to it, but I think we'll go ahead and put it up and add them as we go.

Work...

This week (so far), Iodynamics landed a new project, eliminated aa hold-up on a project that had been held up for a month or so and finished it, and submitted a proposal for what could be our biggest project yet. So, we're pretty busy, but today I'm feeling a little relief.

Mike sent out some e-mail Monday night showing our revenue trends this year, summarized for each quarter. It showed that we're doing okay. Our revnue is increasing every quarter, although not as much as we would like. This is still significant because every year we've been in business until 2003, our third quarter revenues have always taken a big hit. It's like the third quarter is Hate-Iodynamics time. But this year, not only did we not take our usual big hit, we did better than second quarter.

It would be awesome if our fourth quarter did better than our third. October's already looking pretty good.

Da House

Sounds like everything's Go on the house. We're meeting with our agent today to go over some more paperwork. I'm hoping we'll have a closing date today or tomorrow.

Christine's all excited about painting and putting down new flooring. I'm trying not to get too excited because I know we've got a lot of work ahead of us and, frankly, I'm just looking forward to moving in. We'll probably have to paint right away, but we can deal with the floor as our finances allow.

I've been thinking a lot about lighting in the kitchen. The kitchen in our last house had poor lighting and it was always a problem. The dining area had a hanging chandelier-type light and the kitchen area just had a single 2-bulb dome on the ceiling. The kitchen in Riverton is kind of the same except there's a (dirty) flourescent light fixture on the ceiling above the kitchen.

Christine and I both hate flourescent lights in the kitchen, so that's going away. I want halogen track lighting or cable lighting over the bar and sink area and then some other fill lighting over the rest of the kitchen. I also want to put some under-cabinet lights around the kitchen so there's good lighting on the countertops.

This is all going to take some electrical improvisation since the walls and ceiling are already in and there's a limited number of switched circuits available. Should be fun.