An Unusual Wednesday
Feb. 10th, 2011 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aBit of an unusual day. I spent it with cats.
Well, I mean I guess I spend every day with cats. But today the cats and I were all locked into my office + sun room. That's because after a three-week break, our builders were finally back today, and their next task was to take out our kitchen window and replace it with a new, shorter one, which wouldn't cause our house to leak when it's wet (because of the way they'd set up the garage roof). That meant there was a big hole in our house for some of the day. Hence, locked up kitties.
Munchkin was the most reliably annoyed about it all day. Then Lucy started getting bored and chasing Munchkin around. After which Munchkin really wanted to get out. But they all stayed locked up with me until about 5pm. Lucy got some time-outs.
The work on the window was amazing. They pulled the old window out, built the wall up higher than it had been, replastered everything, and put the new window in, and were largely done with that in maybe 4 or 5 hours work. I couldn't even tell that the window had been redone now, except we need to repaint that corner of the kitchen.
We also have a much nicer window. The old one was crap, as is the case with most of the work that was done on this house over the years. The new one is sturdier, moves better, and will keep the cold out better. Seeing the difference was enough to make me want our builder to swap the windows in my office too, as they're even more crap and I suspect contribute a lot to the temperature problems in that room. We shall see if that's possible next time he's around.
And with that, we're getting close on the garage. Roofing on Friday, plus priming somewhere around then. Then an inspection, and after that we need to get garage door people in and ... we'll be just about there. Painting too, sometime, clearly.
Also unusual this evening, Jason (my brother) met me over at Endgame. He's shown up a couple of times over the years, and today he had other plans cancelled ... hence the gaming. He seemed to like the game we played, which was 20th Century. It was a very logistical game of the sort that my friend Eric V. likes, but unlike many of them I didn't find the math excessive. He was able to help me frame why: the math was looser. You needed to understand some general scopes, but you didn't have things that would make or break you if you were $1 too high or low.
(And I kicked butt too, winning but about 20 points, with most every one else clumped together much tighter. I did lose at the 7 Wonders that followed though, but only by one point.)
And in a very rare event, I'll be seeing Jason again on Sunday, as he's having a birthday celebration. It's going to be a busy weekend, as I'm also going in to Endgame early on Saturday to do some scanning that they're very kindly allowing me to do, as part of my continuing work on the RPG History book.
Well, I mean I guess I spend every day with cats. But today the cats and I were all locked into my office + sun room. That's because after a three-week break, our builders were finally back today, and their next task was to take out our kitchen window and replace it with a new, shorter one, which wouldn't cause our house to leak when it's wet (because of the way they'd set up the garage roof). That meant there was a big hole in our house for some of the day. Hence, locked up kitties.
Munchkin was the most reliably annoyed about it all day. Then Lucy started getting bored and chasing Munchkin around. After which Munchkin really wanted to get out. But they all stayed locked up with me until about 5pm. Lucy got some time-outs.
The work on the window was amazing. They pulled the old window out, built the wall up higher than it had been, replastered everything, and put the new window in, and were largely done with that in maybe 4 or 5 hours work. I couldn't even tell that the window had been redone now, except we need to repaint that corner of the kitchen.
We also have a much nicer window. The old one was crap, as is the case with most of the work that was done on this house over the years. The new one is sturdier, moves better, and will keep the cold out better. Seeing the difference was enough to make me want our builder to swap the windows in my office too, as they're even more crap and I suspect contribute a lot to the temperature problems in that room. We shall see if that's possible next time he's around.
And with that, we're getting close on the garage. Roofing on Friday, plus priming somewhere around then. Then an inspection, and after that we need to get garage door people in and ... we'll be just about there. Painting too, sometime, clearly.
Also unusual this evening, Jason (my brother) met me over at Endgame. He's shown up a couple of times over the years, and today he had other plans cancelled ... hence the gaming. He seemed to like the game we played, which was 20th Century. It was a very logistical game of the sort that my friend Eric V. likes, but unlike many of them I didn't find the math excessive. He was able to help me frame why: the math was looser. You needed to understand some general scopes, but you didn't have things that would make or break you if you were $1 too high or low.
(And I kicked butt too, winning but about 20 points, with most every one else clumped together much tighter. I did lose at the 7 Wonders that followed though, but only by one point.)
And in a very rare event, I'll be seeing Jason again on Sunday, as he's having a birthday celebration. It's going to be a busy weekend, as I'm also going in to Endgame early on Saturday to do some scanning that they're very kindly allowing me to do, as part of my continuing work on the RPG History book.