it sounds like the seller is going to pay to fix the ceiling!

YAY!

ION, Boing Boing comment of the day

"You could not be more full of shit here if someone reversed the polarity on your enema bag."

Heh.

Kate, I hope that ceiling ends up landing squarely on the seller/insurance, etc for ALL repair costs. I am so sorry that it happened.

Yep, 15 hours to commute to work for three days. Part of it was 3 hours just getting to work Tuesday morning. A highway patrol officer was shot (on another freeway) at 8:20 AM and all of the drivers on that (extremely busy) freeway were re-directed to my (already usually overloaded)freeways. So that was a one-off. And I made the mistake twice of leaving the office at 5:30 which puts me squarely into the evening commutes of three different over-burdened freeways and their commuters. So leaving at 5:30 gets me home around 7:45-8PM. Leaving at 6:30 gets me home around 8:15. And leaving at 4:30 gets me home around 7:30. So, as you can see, any and all evening plans I have that are in SF or Oakland or Berkeley, are completely screwed.

Anyway, had my 1:1 with my boss and we had so much other stuff to talk about that we didn't get around to the commuting one. Today I was up working at 7:30, hit the shower at 8:30, was out the door at 9:10, got to the office at 10:15. Totally do-able on mornings that I don't have a meeting before 10 that I need to be in the office for. I'll leave around 7 tonight and hope that gets me home by 8:15. Outside of some meetings that I do need to be onsite for, I do have a lot of flexibility in my hours - and ideally I will have at least one permanent day a week (Fridays) where I'll always telecommute. There are a few others here, in other departments who have set telecommuting days and very weird hours the other days, and it seems to work for them.

No public transport exists for my commute short of walking approximately 4 miles and taking 3 separate buses (that are not linked to each other). I would LOVE to take a train or BART or something.

Kate,

what a relief.

Yay for the fixed ceiling payment!!!

Wow, javachik, I'm shocked that going in later is better.

Hey, did I mention that the Good Stuff has 500 followers? Because it does, as of this weekend. Have 500 followers.

Oh, Kate, that is awesome.

I xposted with msbelle. If they fire you for that... They suck.

Kate, that is fantastic news!!!!!

the episodes cast link, in the left sidebar, ought to do you

It's better than nothing, but not being in alphabetical order is a bit of a bitch...at least that show has short seasons. Thanks!

And, good lord, best news (given what had already gone wrong) about the house.

Thanks, everyone! I'm corresponding with the seller now. She seems to think the damage was in one of the bedrooms in which she *didn't* replace the ceiling, which is at odds from what I understood from the contractor who came out on Saturday, but it sounds like she's willing to fix it either way. What a relief!

Yay! In other good homeownership news, apparently somebody wants to rent our house, which would be a great relief financially in the sort term, and their plans would still allow us to try to sell the house next spring. (And maybe they'll fall in love with it and buy it themselves!)

Also Kate, if your long-term plan for the lawn does not include weeds, I'd imagine that at some point the lawnmower will be useful.