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		<title>Fixing the Blu-Ray Blues</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2009/08/fixing-the-blu-ray-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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Not too long ago I moved my former PC of greatness down to its destined home, the basement AV rack. That was after a reconfiguration to Windows 7 RC and the addition of a spiffy new Blu-Ray (BD) drive and IR receiver. For the most part Win 7 is great, and the Media Center application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update: DIY Screen in 10 Steps</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/09/basement-update-diy-screen-in-10-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So about a month ago I decided that before any Halloween prep began (which I&#8217;m now in the thick of) it would be a good time to build the projection screen. Remember, up to this point I&#8217;ve been just using the wall and I tested a couple shades of paint. And just to be extra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update: sump + rack</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/07/basement-update-sump-rack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spent a few hours last weekend doing one of the last basement jobs remaining, and one I&#8217;ve put off for a long time&#8230;I finally got our backup sump pump all wired up. I plumbed it in ages ago, but haven&#8217;t been real excited to put the last bits together. It&#8217;s a small separate pump that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/07/basement-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, remember that little project I&#8217;ve been working on for years (literally). Well, after a few weeks off, the work continues. Last weekend we put in a couple full days finishing trim, painting doors, installing door stops, installing a cable lighting fixture, and hanging a few shelves.
I searched high and low to find movie-related artwork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update: Screen Test</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/05/basement-update-screen-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the basement creeps closer to completion, the task of building the movie screen nears. Of course there are all kinds of screens you can buy, but good ones are really pricey. Building one can save you a bunch of money and you can tailor it to exactly suit your space. Part of that tailoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/05/basement-update-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 05:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So things are still moving along down under. Trim is nearly finished (that means nailed up, caulked, painted, the whole 9). Last weekend I finally installed a cabinet and utility sink in the laundry room. Too bad we didn&#8217;t have it a few months ago when we were doing major painting. But it&#8217;s nice to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/04/basement-update-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the robotics season over, I&#8217;ve finally made a return to the basement. We&#8217;ve starting the trim work now. It&#8217;s a little funny transporting 16 foot pieces of molding with the Aztek, but it works. So far we&#8217;ve put casings on four doors (one to go) and put up all the base in the laundry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update &#8211; Wet bar</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/01/basement-update-wet-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the flooring stint we also put up the backsplash tile behind the wet bar. After New Year&#8217;s I finished it up with caulk and the necessary touch up paint. The glass mosiac tile, motar, and grout were left over from the kitchen so this was a virtual freebie. So what&#8217;ll it be, shaken or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update &#8211; Flooring</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/01/basement-update-flooring/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2007/01/basement-update-flooring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a bunch of vacation to use up before the end of year, so I decided to spend it getting the flooring installed in the basement. My Pop came down for about 4 days and we hammered though it.
First, we put about 90 sq feet of tile in the laundry room. As can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update &#8211; Here comes the BOOM</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/11/225/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/11/225/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I decided I needed to get back in the swing of working in the basement so I spent it hooking up the real sound system. Up to this point watching movies down there has been accompanied by a set of computer speakers. Well, astalavista Altec Lansing!
The first job was installing the five speaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/226/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re down to one last weekend before we are calling it quits through October so we can focus on Halloween. This was our plan last year and it worked out pretty good &#8211; no Halloween distractions while we&#8217;re doing basement work and vise-versa. With one coat of paint up things aren&#8217;t visually changing too much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update &#8211; A pre-weekend update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/227/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now have at least one coat of color on about half of the basement. The wet bar is in pretty good shape having two coats already:

And here&#8217;s a wider shot of so you can see the color scheme a bit better:

The shelf for the rack components is looking good, too. I couldn&#8217;t wait to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update &#8211; In Living Color</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/220/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/220/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finished the priming coat of paint at the end of last weekend &#8211; right on the planned schedule. Now we&#8217;re on to the first coat of color. There are five different colors in the main room &#8211; is that too many? It&#8217;s not as bad as it sounds. The theme is roughly brown and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update &#8211; Prime Time Player, Baby!</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/221/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painting continues. Last night I got half of hell&#8217;s ceiling primed. It took about 4.5 hours. Here&#8217;s a couple shots of the latest:


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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/222/</link>
		<comments>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/09/222/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor Day weekend lived up to its name. I made a 4-day weekend out of it &#8211; and spent it all in the basement. Dad came down for the weekend as well, so Donna and I had some much needed help. It doesn&#8217;t get much more tedious then finishing a drywall job. This is where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/08/223/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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Seriously tired of everything to do with drywall. Happy to report, however, that the second coat is complete. I&#8217;ve applied 35 gallons of mud at this point &#8211; probably 34.5 gallons to the walls and ceiling and a half gallon to my lungs and digestive track.
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/07/224/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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Mudding continues. Will it never end?
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		<title>Taping and Mudding Round 1 concludes</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/06/217/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief basement update here. We just finished taping and cornerbead tonight (well a tiny bit remains here and there, but I&#8217;m calling this phase over). Now to go back over everything with another couple coats of mud. This is taking forever! But things are shaping up.
A few pictures so you can see where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many sheets?</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/05/218/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my basement expenses spreadsheet I summed up the number of sheets of drywall it took. Any guesses?
77! Three of those were 10&#8242;, the rest 8&#8242;. Four were green board, the rest standard 1/2&#8243; stuff.
Meanwhile, taping and mudding continues.
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		<title>Basement Update</title>
		<link>http://xpsdesign.com/blog/2006/05/219/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FlamingPele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so the project is in its 20th month. Damn, that&#8217;s a long time.
At this point ALL of the drywall is hung and we&#8217;re closing in on having it all taped (maybe one more week). I need to tally how many sheets it took, but it was plenty more than I expected. We just ordered [...]]]></description>
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