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one bourbon one scotch and one beer
Oct. 15th, 2023 10:01 pm( an entire month of questions )
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I feel like I kinda fell off the planet for a few weeks there. I mean... I was busy but I'm always busy. I think sometimes I just need to go sit in a corner and feel sorry for myself about it before I can actually get down to work.
sigh. So this is me, getting back to work.
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Toronto went from being 30 degrees for the first week of October to dropping about 20 degrees overnight. My office is freezing. I normally go around in bare feet up here, but I'm not acclimatized to the temperature yet, so it's sweaters and woolly socks and hot tea for me.
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Kitchen has been fully insulated, dry-walled & mudded. Sanding is supposed to start this week. Mental note: throw some sheets over the electronics in the morning. They said they would hang some extra plastic but that shit gets everywhere.
As for the basement, I have no fucking idea. That pile of concrete on my front lawn that I posted on (checks notes) September 4 finally left this past Thursday. And apparently the mason couldn't come in until that was out of his way first.
The builder said he'd be back on Wednesday and would take the time to talk to me about what's going on. Honestly, my biggest complaint about this guy is his lack of communication. If he said up front "doing this part is going to tack on an extra six months" I would have made very different choices.
And he's going back under the knife in November and will be off work for two months after that. So he has a month to get the basement done if it's going to be finished before the housemate moves out and I have absolutely no reason to believe he's going to be able to pull that off.
*makes stressed noises*
This fucking house.
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Took the Old Man to the pub for Thanksgiving. I wanted to find a nice restaurant, but wanting something wheelchair accessible, and either close by or transit accessible, and with either a heated patio or adequate ventilation - well, I might have been able to find something given time, but when he said he'd be just fine at the pub I just went with it.
"The pub" in this case is a place across the street that is huge, usually almost empty, has excellent ventilation (mostly it's a very old building with high ceilings & big garage-door windows so it's drafty as hell) and the staff are incredibly sweet to him. So fuck it. Pub it is. They have good beer, good food, and lots of both. He was entirely happy with it.
I know he's going to want to do the same thing for Xmas, so we'll see where the numbers are at.
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Also waiting for Ontario Health to start jabbing people with the new booster. It's supposed to be available at the end of the month. Yes I know everybody else has had it for ages, but live in Doug Ford's province.
Think the flu shot is out now at least, maybe I'll get that out of the way first.
***
I feel like I kinda fell off the planet for a few weeks there. I mean... I was busy but I'm always busy. I think sometimes I just need to go sit in a corner and feel sorry for myself about it before I can actually get down to work.
sigh. So this is me, getting back to work.
***
Toronto went from being 30 degrees for the first week of October to dropping about 20 degrees overnight. My office is freezing. I normally go around in bare feet up here, but I'm not acclimatized to the temperature yet, so it's sweaters and woolly socks and hot tea for me.
***
Kitchen has been fully insulated, dry-walled & mudded. Sanding is supposed to start this week. Mental note: throw some sheets over the electronics in the morning. They said they would hang some extra plastic but that shit gets everywhere.
As for the basement, I have no fucking idea. That pile of concrete on my front lawn that I posted on (checks notes) September 4 finally left this past Thursday. And apparently the mason couldn't come in until that was out of his way first.
The builder said he'd be back on Wednesday and would take the time to talk to me about what's going on. Honestly, my biggest complaint about this guy is his lack of communication. If he said up front "doing this part is going to tack on an extra six months" I would have made very different choices.
And he's going back under the knife in November and will be off work for two months after that. So he has a month to get the basement done if it's going to be finished before the housemate moves out and I have absolutely no reason to believe he's going to be able to pull that off.
*makes stressed noises*
This fucking house.
***
Took the Old Man to the pub for Thanksgiving. I wanted to find a nice restaurant, but wanting something wheelchair accessible, and either close by or transit accessible, and with either a heated patio or adequate ventilation - well, I might have been able to find something given time, but when he said he'd be just fine at the pub I just went with it.
"The pub" in this case is a place across the street that is huge, usually almost empty, has excellent ventilation (mostly it's a very old building with high ceilings & big garage-door windows so it's drafty as hell) and the staff are incredibly sweet to him. So fuck it. Pub it is. They have good beer, good food, and lots of both. He was entirely happy with it.
I know he's going to want to do the same thing for Xmas, so we'll see where the numbers are at.
***
Also waiting for Ontario Health to start jabbing people with the new booster. It's supposed to be available at the end of the month. Yes I know everybody else has had it for ages, but live in Doug Ford's province.
Think the flu shot is out now at least, maybe I'll get that out of the way first.