On a "brighter" note

Went to visit my friends Ken Silber and Brooke Carter last weekend (and their kid too). Brooke is an architect who specializes in lighting. She reviewed my plans and gave me lots of good ideas, stuff I never would have thought of. Seriously, there's so much more to lighting a house than just sticking a table lamp in the corner (which is what I would have done). For instance, in the kitchen she suggested putting lights ON TOP of the wall cabinets to shine the light up, reflecting it off the ceiling. Never would have guessed that would work. Thanks Brooke.

And in return, I helped them move a 5,000 lb sofa bed down into their basement. I also got to throw electronics equipment into a dumpster. That was cool.

Every thing is a week

At least. To get the engineer to come and look at the water lines was only a few days, but my neighbors needed it delayed until the following week.

And then the neighbors refused to even be there...

Getting a lawyer to deal with the uncooperative neighbors (who aren't paying a dime) and getting the paperwork together took another week. (And the plumber spent the weekend in the hospital with heart problems. Dude, keep well).

So now the letter is being drafted and it will be sent to the neighbors for them to sign off, and then return it.

Then the plumber gets the permits from the city, then the water lines can be separated and replaced.

But next week is Christmas. And the week after is New Years.

One more week has turned into one more month. Jeez.

Sometimes you just gotta lawyer up...just in case

I'm not that old, but I'm too old for games.  Especially when it's my dime.
Cryptic? Yes.
And it's not the contractors. They're awesome.