The painting continues. We now have all the downstairs done, all the upstairs ceilings done except for our bedroom, the stairwell and landing is completely done, and the girls' room and the upstairs bethroom are just waiting for second coats on the walls. All the trim painting remains to be done, too. I still don't approve of our landlady's choice of "antique white", a color whose principal claim to note is its ability to look drab and dingy even when freshly painted. Why they even call it a white, I don't know -- it's not white at all, it's a sort of pale grey with a nasty yellow-brown tinge to it.
Still, it's not our condo, and hopefully we won't be here too long.
Other progress for today includes getting our washer and dryer working. The dryer and the outlet did indeed both turn out to be 240V, so all I had to do was replace the ungrounded three-pin outlet with a grounded four-pin one matching the plug on the dryer. Plumbing in the washer only required extending the wastewater return hose about three feet using a piece of 1" OD copper pipe. Next plumbing project is probably replacing the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink, which I had apart yesterday when looking into a back-flow problem from the sink into the dishwasher (Damn! Forgot to look for a non-return valve for the dishwasher's wastewater line when I was in Home Depot buying the rest of today's stuff) and discovered that it was totally shot. The entire grinder mechanism is a ball of rust -- the only thing I'm surprised at is that it still spins at all. (It doesn't do anything except churn water, but it spins.)
Tomorrow we should get the rest of the upstairs wall-painting done, and get most of the furniture assembled and into place. I can catch the trim later, a little at a time. Then we can put the network together and start bringing the rest of the machines back online. (Of course, I have my core switch torn apart right now to replace its cooling fans, which have badly worn bearings ... I now have a pair of magnetic-bearing replacement fans on order.) I need to get my bike inspected tomorrow, too -- it'll be much more difficult to get it done next week.