The insurance agency hasn't been to the body shop to look at my car yet. The body shop can't really start working on the car until after the insurance takes all the photos they want for reference. The shop has told me though that they think it's in pretty good shape. I was able to drive it to the side of the road and the wheel still sits ( Read more... )

When traffic stops on the I-5 bridge, there's no where for cars to go ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of this winter feeling absolutely horrible. I wasn't dizzy or coughing or anything like that, just tired. I was having a hard time concentrating on anything, and by 1:30 in the afternoon I would be completely worthless. I started drinking coffee in the evenings when I got home from work (a habit I've kept up) because I would feel ( Read more... )

Still working on the basement. I've got the insulation in, but have a couple things to button up and then I'm ready for an inspection on that. After that is drywall and a final inspection, things are definitely starting to wrap up. At the same time, I'm feeling terrible about it taking so long, and about the near in-habitable state of our house ( Read more... )

Good Morning ( Read more... )

Feeling a tad existential lately. On Monday, I was completely lost during a meeting... only to be reminded by a later email about a decision I had help make on Friday. I'm sort of in the dreaded middle manager role right now. I have a few dozen balls up in the air, and I'm juggling as best I can, but I don't feel like any real work is being ( Read more... )

Still here, still feeling broke. Just when plumbing and asbestos were paid off, the bills for Aurora's birth started flowing in. They send a bill for $20 here, $60 there, $1000 over there. No telling what's actual, what's been through insurance, what hasn't. Kirby called them and they're claiming we need to pay all the bills, for a total of ( Read more... )

I'm just trying to take things calmly these days. In addition to the remodel and money stress, I've got no less than 6 trainings to give between now and the end of next week on three different topics. Giving trainings isn't a problem, I can stand in front of a room a bullshit, right now I'm just hoping I can come up with enough material that it' ( Read more... )

The remodel has overstayed it's welcome. More specifically, the plumber has. He seems like a good enough guy, but I'm not sure he's used to this scale of work. He's replacing all the water lines in the house as well as plumbing in a new bathroom. But rather than doing one part of the job at a time, he seems to jump from this part to that part ( Read more... )

I called Kirby from work yesterday just to check in. Apparently Nolan was sandcastling the dogs. A verb, which means to pat them with a small plastic shovel. Our vocabulary has really expanded in the last year ( Read more... )