Working me - this day is...
Mar. 7th, 2012 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisA while back, Scott, the building manager, gave me a form for the living room work. Who's doing it, how long it will take, etc. I totally get the need for this - especially if the work being done might affect neighbors - replacing floors or whatever. One bit on the form is 'permit required - if so, attach copy'.
The electrician needs a permit. He's got it. He'll be here Monday with it. I went to Scott on my way home from the pool today. I stood in his office and said "I have your form all filled out but won't have the permit until Monday, is that ok?" And he said "sure, that's fine." I said great, I'll go get the form and bring it right to you.
I did. And noted on the form that the permit would be here Monday. And sent Sheri a note saying Monday was fine.
An hour later, I get an email from him asking if I would get the permit faxed to him ASAP so he can approve my project. WTF??? What.EV.ER. I'm cool. I'm fine. I get that he's got to make his power plays when he can.
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I was on my second laundry load this morning when the dryer quit. Light comes on. Motor on. Drum moves? Well, no. Actually not. Fuck. I called the place where I bought it and they gave me the name of the repair place and I made an appointment for Friday. I don't know what time, yet - I'm sure it will be when I want to go to the pool. At least my doctor's appointment is at 7:30 - I'm sure it won't interfere with that.
Just having he guy come out here is $89. And that's before he fixes anything. I'm pretty sure I can replace the sucker fairly easily for under $500. So it's going to be a close call - repair or replace It's only 5 years old. Fuck.
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Now for the good news... Assuming permit :(
The electrician will be here with his helper and Sheri at 10 am on Monday. They think they can get it all done on Monday! Or if not, will come back on Tuesday to finish up. I'm not sure why but I thought it would take much longer - several days - to do this part. So kewel!
Then on Tuesday, again at 10, the cabinet bits will be delivered by the cabinet maker. The carpenter/handy man guy will be here to receive. The carpenter will be doing the install of that, fixing the baseboard that the mirror in the half bath broke and rehanging the mirror. Plus he'll fix any dry wall issues the electrician might have to create.
After that, the painter, Dinah, comes to patch and make it all nice.
On Friday the new table is delivered and set up.
I told Chef Anita that we'll need to skip her next cook day because of all the mayhem here but it looks like the mayhem might just be history by then. That would be so cool. I'm still ok with missing one cook session. It will save me some cash and enable me to do some of my own cooking thus re-visiting and re-understanding why Chef Anita is so critical to my well being!!
Bottom line, it looks like my electrical interruption (and so work interruption) will be minimal. I can get all my Monday work chores done before they get here and use my cellphone as modem for the afternoon. I'll be so glad to get everything a proper plug outlet and get it all plugged in properly. This temporary set up is not that much fun.
I just had to reset the web cam again - second time in two days. At least now I have the setup down pat with no guessing. But I do have to get out the step ladder every time and climb on the kitchen counter to get to it. Falling off the counter while trying to fix the webcam is not the way I want to go out.
Ramble, ramble, grumble, grumble.... ok, I'm done.
The electrician needs a permit. He's got it. He'll be here Monday with it. I went to Scott on my way home from the pool today. I stood in his office and said "I have your form all filled out but won't have the permit until Monday, is that ok?" And he said "sure, that's fine." I said great, I'll go get the form and bring it right to you.
I did. And noted on the form that the permit would be here Monday. And sent Sheri a note saying Monday was fine.
An hour later, I get an email from him asking if I would get the permit faxed to him ASAP so he can approve my project. WTF??? What.EV.ER. I'm cool. I'm fine. I get that he's got to make his power plays when he can.
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I was on my second laundry load this morning when the dryer quit. Light comes on. Motor on. Drum moves? Well, no. Actually not. Fuck. I called the place where I bought it and they gave me the name of the repair place and I made an appointment for Friday. I don't know what time, yet - I'm sure it will be when I want to go to the pool. At least my doctor's appointment is at 7:30 - I'm sure it won't interfere with that.
Just having he guy come out here is $89. And that's before he fixes anything. I'm pretty sure I can replace the sucker fairly easily for under $500. So it's going to be a close call - repair or replace It's only 5 years old. Fuck.
---
Now for the good news... Assuming permit :(
The electrician will be here with his helper and Sheri at 10 am on Monday. They think they can get it all done on Monday! Or if not, will come back on Tuesday to finish up. I'm not sure why but I thought it would take much longer - several days - to do this part. So kewel!
Then on Tuesday, again at 10, the cabinet bits will be delivered by the cabinet maker. The carpenter/handy man guy will be here to receive. The carpenter will be doing the install of that, fixing the baseboard that the mirror in the half bath broke and rehanging the mirror. Plus he'll fix any dry wall issues the electrician might have to create.
After that, the painter, Dinah, comes to patch and make it all nice.
On Friday the new table is delivered and set up.
I told Chef Anita that we'll need to skip her next cook day because of all the mayhem here but it looks like the mayhem might just be history by then. That would be so cool. I'm still ok with missing one cook session. It will save me some cash and enable me to do some of my own cooking thus re-visiting and re-understanding why Chef Anita is so critical to my well being!!
Bottom line, it looks like my electrical interruption (and so work interruption) will be minimal. I can get all my Monday work chores done before they get here and use my cellphone as modem for the afternoon. I'll be so glad to get everything a proper plug outlet and get it all plugged in properly. This temporary set up is not that much fun.
I just had to reset the web cam again - second time in two days. At least now I have the setup down pat with no guessing. But I do have to get out the step ladder every time and climb on the kitchen counter to get to it. Falling off the counter while trying to fix the webcam is not the way I want to go out.
Ramble, ramble, grumble, grumble.... ok, I'm done.