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So I figured that since I went through all the trouble of setting up WordPress here, I should actually use it. I have it setup where it auto-posts to LJ and DJ so it really encourages me to be lazy here.  I really wish I could import all of my LJ entries here, however there are problems:

• No easy way to download all the entries into a format where the WordPress importer can understand
• No easy way to shove all of my LJ entries into one category.
• No security levels.  Hell, I’d be happy with setting everything to ‘private’ on wordpress but alas there is no way to do it.
• There isn’t a really clean way of doing this.  The wordpress LJ import plugin (so I’ve read) doesn’t do true XML parsing but is regex central, so like the jdump.pl xml output just makes the importer die.

Ideally there would be a plugin already written that would do all this for me, but searching gives me zip.

Anyhoo, about life:

So today I called the tile place.  B&W Tile (www.bwtile.com) out of Gardena.  Really nice people on the phone.  I just told them what my tile person told me and they faxed over a quote.  $1400 and that included tax and delivery.  Being shipped tomorrow, 14 boxes at 500 lbs.

I placed the order and we’ll see what comes in.

So Tiffany and I are replacing our shower.  Our pink shower in our pink bathroom.  Turns out that I found out a few months ago (while crawling around the house running cat-5) that the shower leaks.  Yay.

So we got the shower all ripped out, had the hot-mopping vs liner debate, and got everything all boarded up and drywalled and everything.

Then it was time to find the tile to replace it.  Because I didn’t want to rip out my entire bathroom and redo the tile, the tub, the toliet, the sink and everything else, I found this place in southern california that specializes in old 1950′s tile.

Its going to probably cost me about 2k just for the tile alone.  The maroon you see in the picture, this place has a perfect match for about $13/sq ft.  Yeah.  This shower is Tiffany and I’s trip to Belize or anywhere fun this year.  I need to call the tile place tomorrow to order it, but something makes me think that the price is going to be over 2k. 

On another note, since I want to move everything off of LJ to here, you’ll notice that I have LJ comments disabled.  You can comment via OpenID.  Put in your LJ/DJ/whatever (AIM is also an OpenID Provider) and you can comment here.

I’ll let you know what the final bill is for the shower once I call the place tomorrow.