Today's Friday's plan:

• Run errands with brother James
  
• Pick up Perlite for garden beds from Exacta Sales
  
• To Appliance Parts in Kalihi for evap bags for James's job
  
• Home Depot to return cement board tape and pick up a dryer vent
  
• Drop off a card on the way home
  
• Kinko's to FedEx a lens back to Olympus
  

Can you stand the excitement?

In other news...

This Mess:




Has been turned into this mess:

Not the most beautiful, but functional and pressure tested. Tomorrow the lines get secured and insulated (mostly to protect the lines although the insulation will help for heat retention in hot water lines), the electrical boxes get installed for the fridge and washer/dryer, the dryer vent hose gets hooked up, cavity is filled with insulation, and then the whole shebang gets drywalled or sheetrocked, whatever.

I'm thinking of adding an access panel for the dryer vents and for the tub drain which sits directly above this washer/dryer-fridge alcove. Paranoia I know, but still...

Tomorrow will bring a laundry list of things to do and a home repair/renovation roundup for anyone who cares.

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My neighbor Greg brought over a freshly caught Mahi as I was about to go home on Wednesday. It was cleaned (poorly) and my mom cooked it tonight, light egg batter, dredged in flour and pan fried with a mayo based tartar sauce with sriracha in it. The leftover egg and flour was used on some zucchini (not from the garden yet!) and then the leftover egg was fried. My dad beat like 6 eggs at my insistence which as it turns out was way too much. James had some friends over to eat though so nothing went to waste!