Ben Ruset on July 15th, 2007

I finally got around to painting the kitchen. When I put the new cabinets in, there were spots on the wall that were unpainted - from where the 0ld cabinets were. They provided a nice 1970’s style yellow contrast to the “Antique White” that I had painted back in 2001.
I started off with a trip [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 14th, 2007

Today Laura, Dana, and I went to the Ocean County Fair with Rob Rome, Brian, Rosalyn, and their kids Katelyn and Brandon.
Dana got her first ride on a merry-go-round:

In other news, I have been spending a lot of time listening to some new music. Found this great band, Boards of Canada,  through MySpace. They’re on [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 8th, 2007

Yesterday I finished up repainting my walls, the wainscoting, and trim. There are a few small areas here and there that need to be touched up, but for the most part it’s all done. I also need to clean up and organize the house, it’s not normally this messy. The dining room table, however, gets [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 7th, 2007

The NJ DEP has ratcheted up a few notches in my book. They have this mapping system - iMap NJ - which allows you to play with some GIS data. Whats so cool about it is that they have aerial and satellite photomosaics of the entire state, so you can go to a region, select [...]

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