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I have been noticeably absent online latey, and for good reason.  Cindy and I tied the knot on July 11 and a few weeks after that we closed on a house.  We’ve been living in the house full time for about two weeks, but it’s still a complete mess.

Wedding Highlights

- The UW Marching Band leading us into the reception and then lighting the place up for twenty minutes.
- No ting-ting-ting with forks. To get a kiss a table had to stand up and sing a song about love.
- A normal first dance that was followed by an Irish dance that we worked on with an instructor up here.
- Spotted Cow on tap!
- Special table tents that we made depicting locations that we’re fond of, for example, some people were sitting at the Camp Randall table or the Terrace table.
- We took our engagement pictures and made a yearbook style book out of them and that was our guest book.
- Everyone going to Ian’s on State Street at midnight!

To see wedding pics, go here:  http://www.expressiveonline.com/

- Click “open this window”.

- Click “ordering and info”.

- Click “online ordering”.

- Click “7/11/2009 Cindy and Pat”.

- Enter your e-mail and enter “cindy” for the password.

To see some house pictures before we moved in, go here:  http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=t1brsbe.7cjrcxu6&x=0&h=1&y=-fdcod&localeid=en_US&cm_mmc=site_email-_-site_share-_-core-_-view_photos_button

I’ve got almost too many projects to list right now, the biggest being a complete gut of the finished part of the basement.  At the moment, though, I really need to stay focused on getting unpacked.

Football season is about to start.  Packers should be in pretty good shape, but I’m not too thrilled with the Badgers prospects.  Quarterback is once again a big question mark for Bucky.  Not good.  I wish Phillips could start for the rest of his college career; the last time the Badgers were any good was when they had Stocco or Bollinger who both started multiple years.

Ok, so I do have a few side projects i’m trying to tackle besides unpacking. I’m providing the below information for anyone else who has a Cavalier with bad light sockets, which seems to be a common problem.  I’ve got new rotors and brake pads, too, but just need to get the brake caliper bolts off, which are stuck on really tight.  Tonight I replaced the rear light sockets, which were corroded and melting bulbs like crazy.  The replacement sockets I ordered came with bare wire (no connector) so I had to cut out the old sockets and solder in the new ones.  I don’t have the part number in front of me, but it’s what shows up on Autozone’s website as a replacement light socket for a 2002 Cavalier.  The socket doesn’t fit into the tailight assembly nearly as nicely as the original one although after a little bit of coaxing I got it to work.  Hopefully the new bulbs last a long time because the whole tailight assembly has to come out now in order to replace a bulb.

I’m also wiring up the entire house with Cat6 and RG6 and I’m going to have a rack in the basement for patch panels, a switch, drop amp, etc.  Right now the cable drop enters the house in a horrible spot, the living room, so I need to relocate it so that it comes into the basement and from there it can feed the rest of the rooms in the house. I don’t blame the previous owner for doing this, but he basically just drilled a hole in the living room floor underneath the cable outlet, ran it into the basement, and distributed cable into the rooms where he needed it by drilling holes up through the floor.