I’m typing this entry on Friday, 30 November. For reasons I shall explain below, no idea when it will actually be posted.
Moving, Continued…
Unpacking of boxes continues apace. What follows is not a complete progress report, but rather some highlights, as I (a) don’t have the stamina to write it all down (b) haven’t even bothered going into a couple of the bedrooms, so I can’t say what’s going on in there, and (c) don’t won’t to bore everyone to tears, which I’ve probably done already, if we’re being completely honest. The kitchen is virtually completely unpacked and set up, save for later rearranging and the retrieval of more pottery and implements from the storage on the coast, and the dining room is well on the way. My bedroom is now mostly free of cardboard containers, save one I’m holding off on until my office is ready to be stuffed full of my assorted electro-mechanical stuff. Clothing and other assorted goodies, like a very fashionable set of leather bound encyclopedias and history and law books, have resurfaced, as well. Like most other rooms in the house, save for one, it’s also free of baseboards (the trim around the bottom of walls), which means we can’t slide any furniture into place until my cousin comes up, probably this weekend or early next week, to install said baseboards, which won’t happen until the painting crew installs the wall paper in the dining room tomorrow morning. If we put my furniture in place now, we’d just have to move it again, which is a nonstarter, as it’s the Heaviest Solid Wood Furniture in the Universe. Our other pieces might not have quite the mass, but would be similarly cumbersome to prematurely move, and no one wants to risk accidental damage to the walls that were just repainted, at any rate. The downside to this being that we are currently camped out in the guest bedrooms, as ours are either filled with furniture stuck in the middle of the floor waiting to be put against the wall, filled with boxes, or otherwise not quite ready to be lived in. It doesn’t help that we don’t have beds for those rooms yet, either. The perils of moving from a place with two bedrooms to four and deciding the beds you already have look better in the guest suites.
There’s other little random stuff, like a floor needing to be fixed where a doorway was widened, some fans needing to be hung, the fact that none of our windows has any dressing except for some giant sheets of plastic hung in the bedrooms for modesty’s sake, but that’s really transient stuff. After all, we have satellite TV and surround sound speakers built in to the walls, so we’re easily distracted.
Painting has turned into a nightmare, but the less said about that the better.
Come and Swim in My Pool…Or Not
I’ve made much over the last few weeks of the pool we’re having installed, going so far as to pimp questionably exciting pictures of said water hole’s construction cycle in this space. Construction ground to a halt after the safety fence mandated by city ordinance apparently didn’t pass inspection, but that was apparently an error or has been otherwise taken care of (and if I sound vague it’s because I really don’t know what’s going on; the pool people didn’t really tell us much, as taking care of inspections and stuff behind the scenes is supposed to be part of the package. Today the plumber came out and turned the gas back on for the water heater in preparation for the final inspection, after which the plaster will be poured and the construction will be complete. So when I post a vague entry in a week or two proclaiming nothing more and nothing less than “IT’S ALIVE!” you’ll know what happened.
Infusion of Comfort and Joy and AT&T/Yahoo DSL (Or: The Time of Ranting is Upon You)
What follows is a brief description of my infusion that devolves into a lengthy rant about the not-quite-fun I’ve had trying to get our internet and phone jacks up and working. Let me preface my griping by noting that while I’m more than a little annoyed with ATT as a corporate service entity at this point, the support technicians I dealt with on the phone were friendly and did their best to help me. I’m ranting at the system, not them. I am also putting the rest of this entry under a cut, because it’s really just an evolved form of whining, and I am aware of that.
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