A busy electrician

The last couple of weeks have involved a lot of work for the electrician: running the wiring; roughing in all lights, sockets and switches; and even planning for our future television viewing. We currently have Comcast, which offers us a wide variety of cable, phone and internet services -- but it's not available at the new location. Which means we have to figure out what we're going to do for television, or what we might want to do someday. Unfortunately, we don't know how good of an internet connection we'll have and therefore whether we'll be able to stream the things we want to watch. Our neighbors don't offer much encouragement on this front: Even the neighbor who works for Intel doesn't have fabulous internet -- which is tough, considering that we currently have pretty fast internet (except late at night, which we blame on all our current Intel-employee neighbors) and that we used to live in Korea, which has the best internet accessibility of any country. Our standards are high, and we'd hate to have to settle for less. Bryan has been researching this at a leisurely pace, but now he's stepping it up and adding various forms of satellite TV into the mix. (He gets this job because he knows which sports channels are critical for him, and my TV-viewing is sporadic at best.)

In the meantime, we have Agepan on the entire exterior of the house; the siding will go on after insulation, which is due next week, and drywall will go in at that time as well. Next week our concrete floor should be cleaned and etched, and the following week we get our garage doors. Visible progress is coming, but it's been slow lately.

We also have our new stairway underway, with our excellent reading nook. (Actually, it's probably done by now; I took these photos over the weekend.) And the house is slowly being dried out from its months of exposure to Oregon rain; the floor and walls can't go in until the house reaches specific moisture levels.

In front of the landing will be a reading nook, with a shelf built into the drywall of the landing.
Under the landing will be a small storage area.

This little machine is drawing the moisture out of the walls and floor and heating the interior of the house.
Just opening the doors and windows allows that moisture to leave the house.

On Sunday afternoon, after the house has been closed up with the machine running
since Friday afternoon, the house was warm and humid.

The mudroom solar tube is in -- as is the rough-in for the track lighting.

Part of what's been keeping the electrician busy is all this wiring: It runs along the downstairs back wall, into the laundry room, out the back of the laundry room, and into the breaker box in the mechanicals room. Whew!