The warranty should. I'm keeping mine for a while. I feel like I've got my money's worth from it. Will be calling them to bleed the radiators and do a checkover this year, on account of the earthquake. Shaking an 80 year old brick house is just not a nice thing to do. Maybe I'll finally get the whole housefan working.

You know, my insurance might cover my ceiling...but I'll get quotes first, because it is probably below deductible. Besides, I want to hire someone who will let me watch, because I need to learn how to do this shit.

eta: my neighbors all have their own dedicated handymen. They aren't taking on more clients! We refer to them as the house-husbands. I had a handywoman, but she moved to the Eastern Shore.

Besides, I want to hire someone who will let me watch, because I need to learn how to do this shit.

I just bought three huge books by Black and Decker on do-it-yourself home repair because I had the same thought!

I can follow instructions, but given this house, and what my neighbors have warned me of, I need a hands-on demonstration. 1931 codes and/or this builders were different. But provided I can find someone familiar with this hood, I'm golden. We pretty much all have the same sort of issues. I really want Salvador, cause I've seen his work and he lives a few streets over, but he's not taking on new single homeowners clients right now. Bah!

My co-worker just had huge flood in her basement last week and can't get anyone in to fix it for weeks. All the contractors are booked to the gills after Irene and then last week's deluge. Suck! And this is, like, the 5th time her basement has flooded out badly all for different reasons.

Makes me feel very lucky as a homeowner.

sara, I can check with my contractor friends to see if they have any available time. (One is the one who did my kitchen/bathroom and the other just did a beautiful job on another friend's kitchen redo. Both are pros at working on older bmore homes.)

Remind me to stop arguing with stupid people on the internet. Bah.

I Just had to hide my accountant. Evidently he's a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. sigh.

Remind me to stop arguing with stupid people on the internet. Bah.

I've been doing that for the past four hours. What a fucking waste.

Ooh, thanks lisah! I'd appreciate it. I need a general sort who I can call for little and bigger stuff. I am still mourning the loss of the handywoman who fixed my doors. She was so ready to take on my porch, but my budget wasn't. And now, well. I gotta do more roof stuff not under warranty first.

Someday, I'll get to having a functional garage.

I Just had to hide my accountant. Evidently he's a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. sigh.

Uhg. I did my taxes on my own this year, but relied heavily on the taxes he did for me the year before. There are some things you wish you never learned about people.

I took the ASVAB twice at two different schools.I think I took it twice. I know it was pretty much mandatory at two of the high schools I went to.

Which was weird in the first one because it was a private -work at your -own pace (rip off) school. But the recruiter dude showed up and the 10 or so of us took it. To tell you a bit about the attitudes I think everyone but me Christmas tree'd the whole thing.

Then at the school I graduated from everyone was filed into the assembly hall (or at least the seniors were) and we took it. I may have either gotten out of it having taken it previously or just skipped that day.

No one wanted me.

My brother, on the other hand, was highly recruited by everyone and eventually became a Marine.

I did my taxes on my own this year, but relied heavily on the taxes he did for me the year before. There are some things you wish you never learned about people.

Yeah. I've been going to him for years now and probably will continue to because it seems too hard to find someone else. We'll see...

Oh! I missed the Sparky news but am wishing good things to come from it!!

The buffistas are my sanity cave.

DAMMIT! I forgot that I was supposed to call after 5pm to check to see if I needed to show up for jury duty tomorrow at 8am. So I'm going to have to go down to the courthouse at 8 am JUST IN CASE so I'm not in contempt.

I knew I was forgetting something important today.

It was financially more prudent to do them myself this year, since I'd gotten through the whole mega tax credit for buying a house, which I TOTALLY would have fucked up. I'm back to a fast pedestrian status for taxes. Turbotax was sufficient.

Just don't think about him until your w-2 arrives!