Timelies all.

Blah. I have a cold, and a slight fever. The rapid Covid test is negative, but I made an appointment for a PCR test tomorrow, just in case. I don't teach on Thursdays, but might need to find someone to cover my classes on Friday, and that is going to be such a pain.

We found our fabulous contractor through Juliana's husband, Martin.

If you don't have Juliana's husband in your city, I recommend you talk to somebody (perhaps a real estate agent you trust) to recommend somebody. They usually have a list of people they like to work with.

Our sad bathroom needs remodeling desperately, and we've budgeted for it, but we can't quite get our shit together to plan it and pull the trigger.

It me! Between indecisiveness, executive function and the thousand little things that keep coming up, this project has been getting bumped for about three years now. (In the course of which quotes have risen considerably). I’m determined to do it this spring.

We discovered lots of fun leaks we didn't know were happening before! The subfloor under where the toilet used to be is almost black! Hooray!

Speaking of things coming up! This time what I thought was a pipe that froze and burst at the Wisconsin house turned out to be a joint in the original plumbing that corroded through. Fixing that led to the discovery of another leak and a possible issue with the underground pressure tank from the well.

All of which was actually much less of a problem than it could have been because we’ve been cutting the power to the well when we leave, so that we don’t have to monitor the weather or worry about (full circle) the freaking pipes freezing. So there was no water running through the system, and especially no water running through it for days or weeks before we were around to see there was a problem. But still a costly hassle that required two different companies to resolve.

And I did find out that my plumbers, who I like, are now also doing electrical and carpentry so maybe the bathroom thing will be easier.

Please wave some of the good plumber~ma my way, the plumber I called should be arriving any time now. Hopefully I will at least have a fully functional toilet and bathroom drain before the day is done. A working dishwasher and a washing machine that doesn't flood the laundry room when it drains would be bonuses, but I'm not counting on either.

Here's hoping, Matt!

I still have my stupid cold, am still WFH, and am now afraid it won't be gone by the weekend. Booooo.

Boo that sucks Jesse. Good luck, Matt!

I told myself since I was on time and needed to pop my moms birthday card into the post office drop box I should get coffee too. …I got the coffee and forgot the post office part (it’s next door). Argh! Should’ve already sent the card anyway and now it’ll be later. Daughter fail.

So things are kind of looking up with my checks and workers comp. Apparently I somehow missed that I didn't get a check at the beginning of Dec and I just got the reissued one today. So that's good. And according to the lawyer the worker's comp is actively working on getting me one check to cover the past THREE checks they owe me.

Hopefully that will get here really soon.

I hope everyone is able to get their bathrooms fixed/renovated or other plumbing issues done without too much problems.

Words you never want to hear from a plumber:

"Those flags in your front yard are where the sewer line collapsed and sprayed water out of the ground."

Oh jeez, Matt. Welcome to homeownership?

That's promising, askye!

Ask A Manager has a thread today about how well/poorly your job is portrayed in the media, and a lawyer said Wolfram & Hart wasn't bad! Haha.

That's hilarious, Jesse!

Yikes, Matt! How disturbing. That'll certainly be good to have fixed so it doesn't happen again...

Glad to hear that, askye, hope the money comes soon!

Just had my appraisal meeting with my former supervisor and current supervisor. My former supervisor kept apologizing that the way the total points get assessed meant that a lot of things that she wanted to rank me as "exceeds expectations" got rounded down to "meets expectations" which is nice to hear but really I have gotten to the point where I don't care about these things. Having good reviews won't keep me from being laid off, and we may or may not get merit increases this year but they have always been 3% or less, so how good the review is can't make much difference to how much raise I get, either, because it's never going to be very much.