Ehouse marches on.
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feng_shui_houseSo, yesterday the plumber/etc. neighbor said hi to me when I was in the front yard looking for butterflies (weren't any) and...
To make a long story short, we're going to fix the dining room floor. Fix as in, scrape up the 3 layers of tile, seal the prob. asbestos glue (it was made in the 1950's when asbestos tile & tile glue was prevalent), put down sheets of some special stuff to level it (it's so tilted the fridge (yes that's in the dining room,no place for it in the kitchen) isn't level even tho it's jacked up on the leveling legs all the way UP on the right side, all the way DOWN on the left side and with a 2 by 4 plank under the right edge), and lay ceramic tile. I'm going to do what parts of the labor I can, including laying the tile.
Luckily a flier for a local tile warehouse included a link to their website, because I found a very pretty & inexpensive tile. They'll ship it direct to my house. YAY. The local stores never have enough of anything nice to do a room.
http://www.flooranddecoroutlets.com/s11100318.html
Quarterly taxes & other bills had to be paid today, so I went out to the banks to replenish my checking & stopped at the thrift store for the first time in many moons & got a whole bunch of books including some Koontz mystery/thriller/psychic novels.
Started clearing the stuff out of the china cabinets (gotta move EVERYTHING out of the room), went out to feed cats & the mail had arrived. When I went to the bank, I put the paid bills for pickup in my box & there was no mail delivered, when I returned home, I checked and my outgoing mail was still there, no delivery. So the mail was delivered WHILE I was home, either ordering the tiles on the computer, or clearing stuff in the back room. I could have heard if the mailman had so much as knocked on the door, or rang the doorbell, or even beeped a horn. But there was no sound from Ninja Mailman.
But there was the Dreaded PEACH SLIP in the box. 'You weren't home, so we didn't deliver' ARGGH. So I dialed the phone number & got put on interminable hold. While waiting, I went to the website listed & filled out the form for redelivery, and OF COURSE, putting in the numbers on the PEACH didn't work, it couldn't find it. So I stayed on hold, got a pleasant man who ALSO could not get the number to work. So we figured the number wasn't right, and I had to talk to someone else. Who ALSO put the number in and said, 'Oh, well, that's not a tracking number, it's the ARTICLE number, and it's in my system, the number is correct'. And I said, 'YEAH, so? It said ARTICLE number on the PEACH SLIP and it said ARTICLE number on the on-line form. So why didn't it work?' DO NOT try to make it sound like I made a stupid mistake! I wasn't tracking the package, I was IDENTIFYING it in the form exactly as I was supposed to do!
SO, supposedly I'll get it tomorrow. Must get up and do yoga early cuz neighbor guy says he'll come over at 10:30 AM to start work. *sigh* Ok, have vented, must get back to moving all the small stuff. This will take hours.
To make a long story short, we're going to fix the dining room floor. Fix as in, scrape up the 3 layers of tile, seal the prob. asbestos glue (it was made in the 1950's when asbestos tile & tile glue was prevalent), put down sheets of some special stuff to level it (it's so tilted the fridge (yes that's in the dining room,no place for it in the kitchen) isn't level even tho it's jacked up on the leveling legs all the way UP on the right side, all the way DOWN on the left side and with a 2 by 4 plank under the right edge), and lay ceramic tile. I'm going to do what parts of the labor I can, including laying the tile.
Luckily a flier for a local tile warehouse included a link to their website, because I found a very pretty & inexpensive tile. They'll ship it direct to my house. YAY. The local stores never have enough of anything nice to do a room.
http://www.flooranddecoroutlets.com/s11100318.html
Quarterly taxes & other bills had to be paid today, so I went out to the banks to replenish my checking & stopped at the thrift store for the first time in many moons & got a whole bunch of books including some Koontz mystery/thriller/psychic novels.
Started clearing the stuff out of the china cabinets (gotta move EVERYTHING out of the room), went out to feed cats & the mail had arrived. When I went to the bank, I put the paid bills for pickup in my box & there was no mail delivered, when I returned home, I checked and my outgoing mail was still there, no delivery. So the mail was delivered WHILE I was home, either ordering the tiles on the computer, or clearing stuff in the back room. I could have heard if the mailman had so much as knocked on the door, or rang the doorbell, or even beeped a horn. But there was no sound from Ninja Mailman.
But there was the Dreaded PEACH SLIP in the box. 'You weren't home, so we didn't deliver' ARGGH. So I dialed the phone number & got put on interminable hold. While waiting, I went to the website listed & filled out the form for redelivery, and OF COURSE, putting in the numbers on the PEACH didn't work, it couldn't find it. So I stayed on hold, got a pleasant man who ALSO could not get the number to work. So we figured the number wasn't right, and I had to talk to someone else. Who ALSO put the number in and said, 'Oh, well, that's not a tracking number, it's the ARTICLE number, and it's in my system, the number is correct'. And I said, 'YEAH, so? It said ARTICLE number on the PEACH SLIP and it said ARTICLE number on the on-line form. So why didn't it work?' DO NOT try to make it sound like I made a stupid mistake! I wasn't tracking the package, I was IDENTIFYING it in the form exactly as I was supposed to do!
SO, supposedly I'll get it tomorrow. Must get up and do yoga early cuz neighbor guy says he'll come over at 10:30 AM to start work. *sigh* Ok, have vented, must get back to moving all the small stuff. This will take hours.
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Date: 2011-12-02 02:18 am (UTC)I guess, having already done so much work on Ehouse, you know to be careful with old asbestos products.
"You weren't home..."
Perhaps you should put a peach coloured note on the outside of your letterbox saying "I AM home, please ring, knock, shout or coooeeeeee!" :P
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Date: 2011-12-02 02:30 am (UTC)I actually DO have a 'UPS, USPS, FED EX I AM HOME" sign which I hang outside when I'm expecting a delivery that must be signed for-- I didn't expect anything this time. I'll put the sign out tomorrow morning.
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Date: 2011-12-02 08:56 am (UTC)Damn, I hate this "you weren't home so we didn't deliver" cards. I got one today with the added warning that if I don't pick up the parcel in a week it goes back to the sender (in Germany) which is bloody draconian. Now I have a job I'm going to get stuff sent to the office.
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Date: 2011-12-02 02:07 pm (UTC)What drives me nutz about the 'you weren't home' is that 99% of the time I WAS home, but because I don't have a car, they assume I'm not home.
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Date: 2011-12-02 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-02 10:17 pm (UTC)Today the mailman knocked & I ran to the door. It was my new 'reading', I guess you'd call them, eyeglasses. They seem pretty good. Have to test them at sewing machine, too, but not while I'm in the middle of this floor mess.
I'd put my 'I'm Home' sign on the gate, but the wind blew it away so I made another one and WIRED it on. I'll bring it in when I feed the cats.