I've posted a second version of Pocket 
Gopher Restyled on my GMX share. I 
will ultimately remove the first one. 
If you downloaded the first version, 
you'll probably want to update to the 
second (the whiter text version).

For some reason, the Android theme 
produced white text in the titlebar 
and menus, but the text in the 
textview (where the gopher content is 
rendered) seemed to be tinted slightly 
with the base color used in the 
background, which meant that the 
contrast wasn't great. A little bit of 
searching led to a method of 
over-riding the text settings for the 
textview window, so now the text is 
much whiter and the contrast is a bit 
easier on the eyes.

In other news, I'm in the midst of 
renovating my house. We've renovated 
and re-wired almost every room in the 
place already, but the bathroom posed 
a real difficulty, because it's an old 
house and there's only one bathroom. 
Given the age of the place (100-ish), 
the existing bathroom is rather small 
and my wife has long wished for 
something more spacious. So I'm 
turning one of the bedrooms into a 
bathroom. During construction, we'll 
have the old bathroom to use, which 
solves the major issue. Afterward, 
I'll gut it and turn it 
into a small study/extra bedroom.

In general, things are going as 
expected and all the permits are 
approved. But I ran into an 
interesting snag. My local landfill no 
longer accepts pre-1990 drywall unless 
it has been double-bagged in 6-mil 
poly bags, owing to concerns over 
asbestos. While that's the law, none 
of the local building supply stores 
sell the bags. I had to order them 
online. Strange, huh? I suspect that 
there are an awful lot of false 
declarations being made at the 
landfill about the age of the drywall 
being dropped off. I can't bring 
myself to do that. While I'm not 
worried about such a small amount of 
asbestos exposure, the employees at 
the landfill are exposed on a daily 
basis and that's a serious issue.

In case you're wondering, I will be 
suiting up, wearing a respirator, 
dampening the walls (to mitigate 
dust), setting up an exhaust fan, etc. 
I've read through the guides provided 
for government employees who do this 
kind of work, and I'm a former coal 
miner, so I have some experience with 
safety in unhealthy working 
conditions.

But I'm still waiting on those bags to 
arrive. I don't care for delays, but 
I've started a month in advance of my 
vacation, so that -- hopefully -- the 
snags and the demolition work will be 
out of the way by the time I have a 
sustained opportunity to get at the 
project.

I'll provide updates on the work as it 
progresses.