Thursday, December 29, 2005
Even though construction's tapering off, the ups and downs keep coming. In the positive column, we have a working sink and toilet! That came in handy when Monkey and I stayed overnight in Mabel (shhh, don't tell the city) on the brand-new wallbed on Christmas! I don't know if it was the champagne or the cozy accommodation, but we slept like rocks.
Also positive: "padre-brown" finish goes on the concrete, the driveway's just 1 pour away from done, and the dishwasher went in (within a day of the one in Construction HQ kicking into high buzz-breakdown mode). If I have to carry dishes over to Mabel for cleaning, well, I'm going to curse Maytag all the way. Actually, I already do.
Big negative: the $367 heat bill! Now I know what happens when the crews hoist up all the garage doors in the middle of winter.
This will be a big month. It is The Month for final everything, plus the mortgage rollover, and getting Construction HQ on the market. I worry least about the latter, and most about the former.
New neighbors have a thank-you party for the crew going this evening. The builder talked them into allowing a few more concrete pours, even though they planned to empty their moving truck today. He said they'd "only" have to walk a few hundred feet and then offered to send some guys their way to help accomplish it. So that explains why the builder was in the driveway this morning, madly calling up any available crew and scanning the street for a load of furniture.
Also positive: "padre-brown" finish goes on the concrete, the driveway's just 1 pour away from done, and the dishwasher went in (within a day of the one in Construction HQ kicking into high buzz-breakdown mode). If I have to carry dishes over to Mabel for cleaning, well, I'm going to curse Maytag all the way. Actually, I already do.
Big negative: the $367 heat bill! Now I know what happens when the crews hoist up all the garage doors in the middle of winter.
This will be a big month. It is The Month for final everything, plus the mortgage rollover, and getting Construction HQ on the market. I worry least about the latter, and most about the former.
New neighbors have a thank-you party for the crew going this evening. The builder talked them into allowing a few more concrete pours, even though they planned to empty their moving truck today. He said they'd "only" have to walk a few hundred feet and then offered to send some guys their way to help accomplish it. So that explains why the builder was in the driveway this morning, madly calling up any available crew and scanning the street for a load of furniture.
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