Sunday, November 12, 2006
After Thursday's rant I'm feeling a little better, now that they have 75% of the cabinets in. There's thick dust all over everything, the house is still upside down, but when I get stressed I can go gaze at my new cabinets. I'm glad, though, that I decided to go to TusCon Saturday, because after all the rigamarole to arrange the guy a key, no-one actually showed up and did any work while I was gone.I'm tempted to let the work continue while I'm on vacation; though I'm not crazy about the idea of construction going on in my house in my absence.
"Before" is at the top of this post, and "after" at the bottom. The sink/faucet is temporary; mine are on backorder.
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TusCon, as usual, laid back and enjoyable, and always a pleasure to see Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. And I got my "Eddi and the Fey" book bag signed! Woo hoo!
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
I am stressing big time over this remodel. The entire kitchen/dining area is unusable and covered in dust, much of the rest of the house is unusable because I have kitchen stuff piled up there, I still have no sink, and the guy in charge of the whole project keeps giving me egregiously optimistic dates for when they're going to get the cabinets installed, which have been taking up half my garage since Tuesday. I really hate to ride contractors, but this guy's a flake about returning my calls and letting me know what's going on, it's almost as if he expects me to call him constantly. Anyone who's gone through a major remodel, is this typical? Did I pick the wrong company? A bit late now if I did.
So yesterday they demo'd the old cabinets and installed the new window. Today they pulled up the Saltillo tile where the new breakfast bar is going. My first reaction when I came home this evening was holy crap, when did the kitchen get so big? Probably after I picked out what I wanted for my cabinets. If I'm sussing the final layout correctly from the tealeaves of early construction, the whole TV viewing area is going to be not smaller but gone. The only other wall I can hang the TV is in the music room, and I have no frakkin' clue where I'll fit the yellow loveseat, let alone the exercise machine! Oh well, we'll take that as it comes. My main concern now is that with everything behind schedule they'll either want to work this Saturday, or I will be too exhausted from tearing my hair to make the drive to TusCon Friday night. I want my sink back, dammit! And my dishwasher, which is currently sitting, full of dirty dishes, in the garage.
Meantime, my kitties are greeting me at the door each evening, crying "WTF?" Peasie's eyes are doing much better on the new diet and she is no longer a conehead. However, she got a secondary bacterial infection on her chin result of wearing the e-collar so long, so she is getting ointment on her chin twice a day. She has mixed feelings about this as it is soothing, but she has to object on general principles.
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So yesterday they demo'd the old cabinets and installed the new window. Today they pulled up the Saltillo tile where the new breakfast bar is going. My first reaction when I came home this evening was holy crap, when did the kitchen get so big? Probably after I picked out what I wanted for my cabinets. If I'm sussing the final layout correctly from the tealeaves of early construction, the whole TV viewing area is going to be not smaller but gone. The only other wall I can hang the TV is in the music room, and I have no frakkin' clue where I'll fit the yellow loveseat, let alone the exercise machine! Oh well, we'll take that as it comes. My main concern now is that with everything behind schedule they'll either want to work this Saturday, or I will be too exhausted from tearing my hair to make the drive to TusCon Friday night. I want my sink back, dammit! And my dishwasher, which is currently sitting, full of dirty dishes, in the garage.
Meantime, my kitties are greeting me at the door each evening, crying "WTF?" Peasie's eyes are doing much better on the new diet and she is no longer a conehead. However, she got a secondary bacterial infection on her chin result of wearing the e-collar so long, so she is getting ointment on her chin twice a day. She has mixed feelings about this as it is soothing, but she has to object on general principles.
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Sunday, November 05, 2006
Political Announcement
My opponant is a big meanie when he says that I'm a doodyhead. Because I'm not a doodyhead, he's a doodyhead. Doody, doody, doody! No returns!
This announcement paid for by the Committee of People Who are Certainly Not Doodyheads.
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When you vote on Tuesdsay, if your precinct uses computerized voting, please carefully check the verification screen to make sure the computer has recorded your vote correctly. If it hasn't, call a poll worker over to fix the problem. That's their job, to make sure your vote is correctly counted.
I'm not being paranoid about this. In early voting this year, there have already been precincts where the software has had chronic problems - to the point where poll workers have been heard to say "oh, that machine does that."
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My opponant is a big meanie when he says that I'm a doodyhead. Because I'm not a doodyhead, he's a doodyhead. Doody, doody, doody! No returns!
This announcement paid for by the Committee of People Who are Certainly Not Doodyheads.
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When you vote on Tuesdsay, if your precinct uses computerized voting, please carefully check the verification screen to make sure the computer has recorded your vote correctly. If it hasn't, call a poll worker over to fix the problem. That's their job, to make sure your vote is correctly counted.
I'm not being paranoid about this. In early voting this year, there have already been precincts where the software has had chronic problems - to the point where poll workers have been heard to say "oh, that machine does that."
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