Niece and House pics!

Hey gang,

Here are a ton of pictures of our new niece, the entertainment center and the bathroom - Enjoy!


Here is the newest family member in the Scheck family:
Evelyn J Scheck; 6lbs, 4oz; 19" beautiful baby girl :D
Congrats to my sister Susan and brother Eric!



Here is Susan and her new baby girl at dinnertime :D



The new living room look; Notice the extra drywall piece by the front door :)
We moved the love seat to the other side to make more room on the staircase side of the room- that is where we have the DVDs now.


The monster lives!! Its a big 85" long thing that weighs a ton; in this shot, the shelves are empty, but the sweet 42" LCD fits - like a glove!! (Sounding like ace venture..)



The old original bathroom; just as a referance for those that have not seen it before; you can see why we wanted to update it.



The old shower surround; there is only one of the two valves showing, and it was the leaky cold one.


The new shower surround; it went up easier than I thought, except the tedious part of cutting out the valve side of the plastic - that took a good 40 minutes of me NOT trying to F it up.





Thats it for now - more pics very soon!

Summer is Official and Nicole gets her permit!

Hey all,

Well, it is June 21st = Summer solstice. So least to say, its REALLY gonna be a long day.. I mean, really long...

BIG NEWS!! (ticker tape machine sound)............
.....Nicole Got her PERMIT!! YES! She can now drive as a learner and learn from anyone else but me. It sounds mean, but look at it this way: no fighting! The last thing that we want to do is to fight over what I said or didn't say to do, get upset over her hitting a curb and panic, etc.. So we are looking at different driving schools and seeing what we can do for her date with the driving instructor on....Sep 11th! Yep - 9-11 is her driving test date. Lets try and change the luck of the date..

World Cup is underway, and wow the US looked like they took one in the ass with that stupid ref on the Italy game; US should have and could have won that game, had it not been for the ref. Oh well, Last is Ghana, and they look good. It will be tough, but it is possible to win and have Italy beat out Checs.. So far, my picks for the round of 16 are on par..Germans, English... and that starts in a week.

6 Flags Great Adventure FINALLY Opened EL TORO, just after we left there a month ago.. go figure. There is talk now as to when we will go again - I'm thinking either late July or September...Email me if you are interested.

Where to start:
GAMING: well, after finishing finals, it seems that the Sunder guild decided to move servers for WOW, and then change their name to something else. Since I wasn't too into playing a lot anymore, and that there was no way for me to catch upto the rest of the guild, I did not transfer my toon over. Good thing, cause there has been nothing but problems for Sunder since moving last week. I'm not 100% DONE with WoW - it was fun and I was able to game with friends and even Nicole, but in the end, its a game.

I then rejoined Sturmgrenadier and loaded up Planetside, and found that playing once a week is exactly what the Dr ordered. I can get on with friends for a few hours on Thursdays and log out when I need to. No more loot, no more DKP this or that.. just get in, kill shit and log off.
I also left the battlefield CD in and still playing BF2 with the new Armored Fury add-on, and its fun. Get in, play, log off. No fuss, no mess.

HOME FRONT: After finishing the first phase of the bathroom re-modeling, we are hoping to find a weekend with no travel plans and tackle the shower. I gotta rip down the old shower rap-thing, fix/reinstall the drywall, re-plumb the plumbing with the new single faucet style



After the guts are replaced, I get to install the new shower rap and let it dry for 24 hrs before we can caulk it and use it, so we will be stinky people this weekend.. maybe.

I also finished the new Entertainment center, and man what a difference. WE trashed one of the book cases, then put the 2-ton monster together. Since the new one take up the entire wall, we moved the living room around and it actually looks really good now. Nicole put some of her trinkets inside, and we just need to get some picture frames and put some pics into it, and that will be that :D The old one went across the bridge to her parents house and into the basement for the spare TV there. Pics will follow soon and posted here :)

SCHOOL: Got an A in the Programming and a C in the Math; Not sure what happened to my favorite subject, but I'll take a C. Next up is Economics 201 and Chemistry 203 (told ya so stupid ass councilor..), so this summer will be 'fun' :P)

BABIES: Susan is as I type this in labor with Evelyn (Kant speelll it right..), so we will see how things go with that. Baby Jason is almost 6 months old, so our first nephew is getting bigger. Carlos Y had his #2 with Kianna, not Keano (woh), still no pictures, but that's ok.

PAINTBALL: After talking to Eric last week, he is getting the itch again to go play when we travel there. He didn't know that I got a new marker and that it needs compressed air, not CO2.. I don't think he understood, but that's cool. I'm always up for it, so we will see. D-Day is coming around the corner, and still no takers as to anyone else wanting to go with me. It sucks, but I hate to go alone to such a big event, as its not fun when you have noone else to go with. IF you are interested, email me..

Otherwise, all is good! Look for pics of the new entertainment center and the phase 2 bathroom project soon! And Email Nicole and tell her Congrats on the permit - it was a tough test, but I knew she could do it :D ( I love you babe :D)

Memorial Day weekend events and Summer starts!

Hey world..
Last weekend was good: WE went to Six Flags Great Adventure and had a good time. The one ride that I wanted to go on is still broke! DAMMIT!! At least, next time, they will have a new coaster there too, so it will be something for me to look forward to - This is El Toro; a new woodie that has a 76degree drop down a 176 foot hill! Hell yea!!

This weekend was interesting; When the Memorial day weekend kicks off, the ENTIRE east coast does one of two things - goto the NJ Shore or do house projects. About 80% of the entire Philly population went to the shore and the rest stayed home. No traffic on the roads; a buddy of mine saw the Xmen-3 and said there were no more than 30 people in the theater! My 5+ trips to Lowes and Home Depot is where I found some folks that were doing house projects like I was; Everyone else was down at the beach. On Monday, Nicole's parents said the traffic was so bad, that a 90 minute drive took over 3 hours to get home!

BBQ Season started too- we grilled our first burgers this weekend and I tried to make french fries; not too bad! Take veggie oil, and mix in some pepper, garlic powder and back cut potatoes for 40 min @ 425. Make sure you flip em 20 minutes in..or they will burn :P

HOMESTUFF: Our entertainment center was damaged upon arrival to Boscovs- they never called me about it and it was only when I called them on Thursday afternoon and asked about it did someone tell me ' sorry sir... but it will be another 2-3 weeks..' GREAT! Actually, it kinda works out, as this weekend we are upto NY for a visit, then next weekend is Paintball (Maybe..) and that leaves the 17th for the entertainment center assembly :D

The bathroom is done with phase one. Here is a pic of the finished ordeal.


The long story: prepping took all of 3 days- between trips to the store, letting the spackling dry and getting the texture done, the first real coat of paint went on Monday evening. IT still needs touch ups.. The real problem was the sink. I found that I am missing on/off valves underneath there and that meant that I had to drain the entire house of water.. Don't ask. after doing that, I could disconnect the two hot/cold lines, remove the old sink top, install and caulk the new one, install the faucet, reattach the plumbing and test for leaks - it took about 5 hours to do all that. Once the sink was in, then me and my father-in-law installed the medicine cabinet: That was fun.. without being able to see the corner side behind the cabinet, it made it fun! An hour later, we installed the light fixture, and that was a breeze.

All that is left for tonight and tomorrow is to install the accessories, like the TP holder, towel racks, etc. Then get a better shower curtain rod. IN the next few weeks, the shower will be replaced and I am going to install a new faucet in there too.

PAINTBALL: After getting a new marker, I saved up $100 and got the rest of the missing things I wanted to get for it: A new barrel - the 14" Redz pepperbarrel; New grips (Dye sticky grips), the extra parts kit, with lubricant; and a tank cover for the air tank, which will protect it from dings and dents. I am quite happy with it now, and cant wait to go shoot some balls :P A few friends told me this weekend that they are going to goto the NJNAM, which is 26 hours of paintball, with real helicopters and 'tanks', which are old jeeps with paneling on them. Yes, they make an Anti Tank weapon too.. I was wondering about mortars- do you use little pint sized cans of paint and fire them over hills?? :lol:
Anyways, I am trying to find out if I can join them on a day-trip out there. I'd love to go, but only for the day- no camping yet..

D-Day invasion of Normandy is coming soon, and I am planning on going for the weekend; Im not sure if I can or not, but at least go for a Friday night stay up there and play all day Saturday, then come home.

OTHER NEWS: We FINALLY are going to see a baseball game on Fathers day at the Phillys park It should be fun, as I haven't been to a game in years.

School is ok, I hope. I missed last weeks Linear Algebra and missed my results on my exam#2, but I think I did well on it. My current dilemma is ECEC302, vhdl programming, or I should say, the class that I was 2 hours of time in. The 'Instructor' isn't, and it makes it difficult to understand what it is that we are suppose to be doing. I am pretty much gonna have to fudge the labs as best as possible and hope to get a C and call it done. A few engineers told me they don't use it, unless you are a programmer, and since everyone knows how much I just LOVE to program,.. well figure the odds...

Otherwise, the Myspace thing is interesting- I am finding old neighbors and old highschool friends there, so that's cool. Just last night I found susans old friend Leah and am not sure if Susan knows she lives close by her now!

NO- I didn't see Xmen3 yet! I know, Im a looser.. but hey, I got a nice lookin bathroom now, so :P on you :)