All condolences, Jilli and Pete.

Remember the hole in the bedroom floor (and porch). Well. The construction folks have arrived. They arrived 20 minutes ahead of the time I was told. I was still nakie when they rang the bell. Lucky I was sitting when they peered through the bedroom window, so. Whew? Anyhow. 51 days from hole discovery, repair crew begins. Woot? 100 hours have been allocated. 2 guys. Monday is a holiday. They can only work 8 in a day (CA overtime rules). So? I'm guessing they will be done next Wednesday? :: sigh ::

I killed the thread. Crap. Sorry about that.

ION - I made a lunch today, forgetting that the Dean is having a celebration lunch with the summer theater folks, to congratulate us on our first year of Shakespeare in the Park here at work. D'oh!

omnis, I hope the hole in the floor gets fixed quickly.

Though after ~10 days of dealing mostly with that, I think I need a bit of a break. A bit of the old routine, and getting back to writing papers, not "I remember that about her..." posts and managing the different memorial projects.

Yes, you probably do need a break. And should take it.

And Shir, thank you!!! Shir sent me a lovely note and some delicious chocolate. Both made me smile a lot. I was absolutely thrilled to get my mail and find a postmark for Jerusalem.

The mail also brought me a surprising letter from Time Warner. I won my complaint with them. I would really not recommend this as a way to save $10 on your bill for a year. I was told that I was lying, that the phone call I cited was reviewed and, yep, I was still lying and, best of all, that to see the transcript or hear it myself, I would need a subpoena. According to the letter, I wasn't lying. Which is actually true. They gave me a wrong piece of info and I'd have been happy enough with just a sorry. But they made it ugly and told me I had no options so I wrote them complaints and sent them to the BBB as well. Frankly, I was about to get to the "So, how does one subpoena a phone call or transcript portion" because they were just so shitty about it and it's the one time I knew I was absolutely in the right.

So that happened.

I still hate Time Warner but I am glad that honor does not require me to cancel them because I also love both having the internet and their app which lets me stream several channels of tv live to my phone or tablet if I am in my home network. Mostly the internet. And racing.

Jilli, my condolences.

Glad it got there, Cass, and I'm glad you had other good news in the mail.

Woot for Cass The Victorious!!

{{Jilli}} Much peace to you and Pete.

askye, I hope things continue to go well with the shrink and therapist. The fact you were able to stay on top of the situation, despite the boulder trying to push you back downhill, really shows how well you actually are doing. As others have said, brain chemistry is wack, yo.

omnis, hope they fix the floor with minimal fuss. That's definitely the not fun kind of renovation. Unless you can get them to install a slide down into the garage (was it the garage), so you didn't have to use the stairs.

Checking in for those who aren't in Natter: I'm fine, it's kind of windy, bored now.

omnis, good luck with the renovation.