Yeah, it looks..,boring. As it should! No more bubbly plaster flouresence and stains. And I'm hoping that by using the cement board, if there are future moisture issues in that wall (I'm really really cautious... and pessimistic) , it'll be easy refinishing. Just sanding and paint. No rebuilding the damn plaster where it pulled off the mortar on lathe.

Suzi, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Kat, that is great news!!

My job has been particularly demoralizing lately. I feel like we're doomed for failure (thanks, in part, to sarameg's employer!) and yesterday my team was told that, basically, the absentee business owner has "no faith" that we can do the job. ugh. It's stuff that has come up before, and I'd already been pretty depressed about my job and the project but I just lost it. And then was told by my bosses that I shouldn't "take it personally." I swear that was the closest I've ever come to straight up walking out of a job. But, I didn't. Instead I texted Bob and he encouraged me to set up a meeting with our head of HR (who is the wife of the owner). So I talked to her this morning which was good. She said when she told her husband that I'd asked for a meeting he said to do "whatever Lisa says" to make it better. I'm one of the remaining original employees (I was like hire number 9 and we've grown to over 300 people now) and she made it clear that they still really value me. I think at this point if I said "get me off this project now" they'd make that work for me. I'm not sure that that's what I want to do though. I've invested so much in the work; I'd really like to see it succeed (unless sara's employers, in league with our fed client, do actually doom us to failure).

Jeez, lisah, I'm sorry you have to deal with Completely Sucking Company making your life worse. I'm glad you were heard. I feel you, oh yeah.

Congrats, Kat!

I'd probably have to move across the country to the Bay Area.

You know your hockey team isn't there.

Congrats Kat!

You know your hockey team isn't there.

Sometimes they visit.

I think. I don't follow hockey.

Kat, that's amazing news!

Jackhammers started at 7 on the dot, prompting me to close the window so I didn't add concrete dust to the mix. I currently have NO sidewalks!

Funnily enough, I can fall back asleep to the sound of jackhammers.

And now I gotta start vacuuming up my dust.

My upstairs neighbor (aka Mom) is killing me! She's decided to just get up when she wakes up at 5 and either go for a walk or do stuff around the house, but either way, it wakes me up half the time as well! The stairs are creaky and go right by my head when I'm in bed.

This is why people don't like to be the downstairs neighbor, huh?

I'm sorry for your loss, Suzi.

Congrats Kat!

Sorry about your job suckage, shrift and lisah.