Slow time aside it was a great ride and an almost perfect route. To insure the day ended well the sponsors had a free beer tent with New Belgian Brewing Co. beer.

First Ride:

Second Ride:

Now that this is out of the way let’s talk a little bit about laying tile.  Read, read lots and pay close attention.  It’s really not that hard of a task if you can be patient and devote the time.  Let me a add a few “don’t do what I did” type bits of advice.

1. Never do a wall as your first project
2. If  you must do a wall, pony up a few extra pennies and buy supplies to practice with!
3. Don’t use tile from different manufacturers for a job unless you know that the width and thickness are identical OR if you plan for these differences.
4. Don’t try to do the math, whiteboard the install and go by a technical diagram.  This is not technology, it just doesn’t seem to work that way.
5. Never use a combination of textured tile and sanded grout unless you really know what you’re doing.
6. Protect the floor, tub, liner, whatever there is when you’re working.  Quadruple the importance of this with sanded grout.
7. Don’t get mad and hit the tile, it breaks.
8. Make sure you have plenty of tile!
9. Don’t take a friends left over tile and start using it not knowing it’s $100 a box Italian tile.
10. Always find a friend to assist the first time.

That’s all I got, a long list of what not to do!

Check out the map!

Off to relearning .htaccess hacking again.  I’ve been away from web content since moving to an infrastructure role I think I’ve forgotten everything I’ve even known…except what an .htaccess file is capable of.

Again, ugh.