My friend Brian came over a couple nights this week to help install the sub-floor. I'd put in a few rows and my mind started shutting down as the height shimming became more complex. By my calculations I'd have had the entire floor floating on a sea of shims in only a few more rows. So Brian came over and sat down with the level, a few shims, and a couple dricore panels to contemplate the nature of the beast. He came up with a better approach and after putting another row in using it we realized that the last row I'd put in was too whacked and ended up dis-assembling it and starting over.

Moral of the story: sub-floor is MUCH easier if you have even a semi-level surface. Old garage floors with non-geometric drainage parabolas are not straightforward at all, even after applying a few bags of self-levelling cement (which didn't ... level that is).

Sub-Moral of the story: Two brains are better than one and one Brian is better than none! (and the sub-moral still works if you mistype brian/brain like I often do...)

You may notice that there's shelving in place along the top of the knee walls, which is 1"x12" pine that I'd stained/urethaned. Walls are "mostly" painted, although I found a few places that I'd totally missed.

Next steps:

• Finish last few pieces of sub-floor
• finish mudding/painting last few areas
• Light fixtures!
• Flooring, some type of laminate (bamboo?)
• tile for entryway
• install closet doors
• trim, lots of trim
• box in power panel
• touch up blue beam paint
• test using Baby 1.0
• Furniture, HDTV! ":^)