coming off a big weekend

The weekend started up with a trip with the boys to see "300". We had a couple beers with the guys and then stood in line for about 1/2 hour at the IMAX. We ended up a little close to the giant screen, but for a movie like this it really didn't matter. The critics are saying it is "like watching a big video game", which was fine by me. Morgan was in rare form, trying to start up blood chants at inappropriate times. SPARTA!

Saturday was mostly a day at home and then monster poker in the evening. Boelkins celebrated a birthday in style by hosting a 10 person game. I ended up placing 5th and Nora was tied for 2nd. Not a bad outing. Morgans must have partied too hard on Friday night because they crashed out 9th and 10th. The big man Phil won it all and heads into March Madness full of confidence. Brackets are out and due on Thursday. I think I will have Levi do my picks this year - he knows the teams about as well as I do at this point. I hear the middle seeds are all pretty even so Levi has as good a shot as any.

Finally, Sunday rolled around and we spent a couple hours in the afternoon looking at color options for the cohousing unit. We are finishing up our interior upgrades and option picks this week and then choosing more specific colors and materials in a couple weeks. I think we are going really "green" for most of it. Some of the features: ivory bamboo flooring which is a renewable grass, high efficiency Energy Star appliances throughout, Marmolium floor in the bathroom which uses natural oils instead of petroleum products, recycled carpet on the second floor and wood & fiberglass framed windows. They blew in the foam insulation and are finishing up the drywall in the first unit. We had a guy come out to test the efficiency of the unit, and we got a 99.5 out of 100. He said that our units heating bills will be 1/2 to 1/3 less than those of a Federal Energy Star Rated home. 1/2 = Awesome