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Weekend roundup
Posty posty all weekend long. I mostly vegged out and got caught up with various chores.
Saturday I got a phone call from the guy who did my painting-and-repairs back ... what, two years ago? He was in the neighborhood and wanted to check in on how the job was holding up. We did a walk-around and identified a few things to work on: a couple small spots of rot that had been missed the first time around; some repairs that had shrunk up a little and needed some caulking; the stair tread that's starting to get a little loose. He's going to draw up a more formal description of the work and we'll see what I feel like having done at the moment. (Probably everything, since he seemed to think it would come in well within my available budget.)
I've finished up the various quince pastes and have them packaged in little individual bags ready for 12th night -- which puts me way ahead of the game. (Now if only I could do the same for family xmas presents!)
I've been keeping up the bedtime writing on the current fiction project (the one that's "just to get me back in the habit of writing regularly") and have accumulated about 20 double-sided pages, so I got those typed into a computer file. Only had one word I could no longer recognize, even in context.
Decided I really need to get the remainder of the de-accessioned books out of the house and inquired at Moe's about the best time to bring boxes by to be considered for trade-in. So I may do that some evening this week. No idea what percentage of it they're likely to be interested in, but it's one more stop-off before the recycle bin. There are a few other leftover tasks from the major housecleaning that got stalled along the way that I just need to do. And on the acquisition side, I picked up some on-sale pillow forms to be covered with assorted orphan fabric projects. (My solution to the problem of "I'm never going to finish this, but I can't bear to throw it out.")
And that's about it for the weekend.
Saturday I got a phone call from the guy who did my painting-and-repairs back ... what, two years ago? He was in the neighborhood and wanted to check in on how the job was holding up. We did a walk-around and identified a few things to work on: a couple small spots of rot that had been missed the first time around; some repairs that had shrunk up a little and needed some caulking; the stair tread that's starting to get a little loose. He's going to draw up a more formal description of the work and we'll see what I feel like having done at the moment. (Probably everything, since he seemed to think it would come in well within my available budget.)
I've finished up the various quince pastes and have them packaged in little individual bags ready for 12th night -- which puts me way ahead of the game. (Now if only I could do the same for family xmas presents!)
I've been keeping up the bedtime writing on the current fiction project (the one that's "just to get me back in the habit of writing regularly") and have accumulated about 20 double-sided pages, so I got those typed into a computer file. Only had one word I could no longer recognize, even in context.
Decided I really need to get the remainder of the de-accessioned books out of the house and inquired at Moe's about the best time to bring boxes by to be considered for trade-in. So I may do that some evening this week. No idea what percentage of it they're likely to be interested in, but it's one more stop-off before the recycle bin. There are a few other leftover tasks from the major housecleaning that got stalled along the way that I just need to do. And on the acquisition side, I picked up some on-sale pillow forms to be covered with assorted orphan fabric projects. (My solution to the problem of "I'm never going to finish this, but I can't bear to throw it out.")
And that's about it for the weekend.
On getting rid of books....
If I had any plans to be over there any time soon, I'd offer to haul them back for you, but I expect it'll be months at least before I do that.
(Hmm. Google is my friend. Looks like The Friends of the Berkeley Library accept donations and seem to take most anything; the Friends of the Oakland Library seem rather pickier).
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Mind you, I suspect the timing of his follow-up has to do with a lack of current projects and the hopes of picking up a few days of work from odd jobs. Which he has succeeded in doing.
This is one of the reasons why I much prefer to choose my contractors from recommendations by satisfied customers in the first place. I want to work with someone who knows first-hand about the consequences of giving a damn about job quality.
I'm on a neighborhood e-mail list and it's a great resource for this sort of thing.
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So I'd like your painter's information if you think he'd be interested in a small project of this kind.