In Which I Shop Until I Dye
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shannon_aFriday Night: Mauvais Genou. Hurt my knee. D'oh! Let a cat sit on it in an uncomfortable position. Lucy is made of lead. Then after I biked to Safeway and back, I discovered it was painful when I went went up the stairs. So I gave it ice and ibuprofen over the course of the weekend.
Saturday Morning: Acheter des Carrelage. Five years ago an incompetent builder remodeled our bathroom. When we asked if he could do it, he said that bathrooms were his bread and butter. He electrified our tub and installed our tiles such that they were leaking within a few years. Leaky bread and electrified butter.
So we've got a handyman who's going to redo it. We spent Saturday morning shopping for new tiles, up north of Gilman. We came up with one that's a little darker than we like, but otherwise OK. A little pricy, but for only 100 square foot of tile that doesn't make a big difference. Apparently rectangular, brick-like tiles are the newest fad, and we settled on one, but now I'm worried whether our handyman is going to be comfortable laying those in, which I have to assume is more complex, because you don't just create a square grid. If not, it's back to the stupid tile store.
(Also stupid: the city of Berkeley. Our local streets have had two-hour parking limits for non-residents for the last 20+ years, and it's been a constant thorn in my side whenever I have people over, and it's going to be a problem for our handyman starting tomorrow. I was hoping to get some daily visitor parking permits for him on Friday. Except the Customer Service Center where you do so is only open four days a week nowadays. Which isn't particularly good service. So I'll try Monday morning before work, as a bit of just-in-time getting stuff done, of the sort I hate.)
Saturday Evening: Ich Färbe Haare. Kimberly tried to re-dye her hair while I was in Cambridge, and just hurt her foot more. So she asked me to help now and we scheduled that for Saturday night. Oy! hair dye is pernicious stuff. Afterward, I felt like I spent forever getting it off of everything (other than her head). But I was successful. Then we wrapped her head in saran wrap and duct tape, so that she could leave the dye in overnight. We had blue duct tape, so she said it made her look like Marge Simpson.
She washed her hair out first thing Sunday morning, and I volunteered to clean the bathtub afterward, so that she wouldn't hurt her toe. I found blue on all the walls of shower stall, some of it in arterial sprays. It looked like she'd killed a whole tribe of smurfs.
The blue came out looking very nice.
Sunday: Klettere Jeden Berg Hoch. And on Sunday I rested. By going hiking.
The first step is always finding lunch I can bring up into the hills. This is more challenging on Sundays, but I opted for Ike's Overpriced Sandwiches, forgetting that they'd gone on my naughty list. The problem is that they've joined the list of bad San Francisco based businesses who began engaging in surcharge shenanigans when they were told to pay people a living wage (not that it's LIVABLE yet in the Bay Area). So Ike's has an "optional" surcharge to fund it, which of course isn't optional because they automatically charge it, and if you say otherwise workers might spit in your sandwich. But, it's false advertising because they list incorrect prices, and it's a passive-aggressive slap at minimum wage laws that invites customers to be at odds with the workers. I need to find a different sandwich place in downtown, because screw Ike. But today I had a very delicious if morally reprehensible cream cheese sandwich with an orange glaze.
I lunched near Jewel Lake, which I love, and then I did a hike out into Wildcat Canyon, which I love, up the hillside along the Conlon Trail, which I don't think I've ever hiked before, then across the Nimitz Way, and back down in Tilden. It was a terrific hike that warded away the cold of fall (winter is coming) and there were beautiful views due to the bit of rain we got last night. (The canyon was still quite wet, but the hillsides quite dry.)
Overall, a great day of hiking.
I didn't get enough R&R and downtime this weekend, but we definitely got things accomplished. Onward. There's still much to be done for Skotos, RPGnet, and Blockstream before year's end.
Saturday Morning: Acheter des Carrelage. Five years ago an incompetent builder remodeled our bathroom. When we asked if he could do it, he said that bathrooms were his bread and butter. He electrified our tub and installed our tiles such that they were leaking within a few years. Leaky bread and electrified butter.
So we've got a handyman who's going to redo it. We spent Saturday morning shopping for new tiles, up north of Gilman. We came up with one that's a little darker than we like, but otherwise OK. A little pricy, but for only 100 square foot of tile that doesn't make a big difference. Apparently rectangular, brick-like tiles are the newest fad, and we settled on one, but now I'm worried whether our handyman is going to be comfortable laying those in, which I have to assume is more complex, because you don't just create a square grid. If not, it's back to the stupid tile store.
(Also stupid: the city of Berkeley. Our local streets have had two-hour parking limits for non-residents for the last 20+ years, and it's been a constant thorn in my side whenever I have people over, and it's going to be a problem for our handyman starting tomorrow. I was hoping to get some daily visitor parking permits for him on Friday. Except the Customer Service Center where you do so is only open four days a week nowadays. Which isn't particularly good service. So I'll try Monday morning before work, as a bit of just-in-time getting stuff done, of the sort I hate.)
Saturday Evening: Ich Färbe Haare. Kimberly tried to re-dye her hair while I was in Cambridge, and just hurt her foot more. So she asked me to help now and we scheduled that for Saturday night. Oy! hair dye is pernicious stuff. Afterward, I felt like I spent forever getting it off of everything (other than her head). But I was successful. Then we wrapped her head in saran wrap and duct tape, so that she could leave the dye in overnight. We had blue duct tape, so she said it made her look like Marge Simpson.
She washed her hair out first thing Sunday morning, and I volunteered to clean the bathtub afterward, so that she wouldn't hurt her toe. I found blue on all the walls of shower stall, some of it in arterial sprays. It looked like she'd killed a whole tribe of smurfs.
The blue came out looking very nice.
Sunday: Klettere Jeden Berg Hoch. And on Sunday I rested. By going hiking.
The first step is always finding lunch I can bring up into the hills. This is more challenging on Sundays, but I opted for Ike's Overpriced Sandwiches, forgetting that they'd gone on my naughty list. The problem is that they've joined the list of bad San Francisco based businesses who began engaging in surcharge shenanigans when they were told to pay people a living wage (not that it's LIVABLE yet in the Bay Area). So Ike's has an "optional" surcharge to fund it, which of course isn't optional because they automatically charge it, and if you say otherwise workers might spit in your sandwich. But, it's false advertising because they list incorrect prices, and it's a passive-aggressive slap at minimum wage laws that invites customers to be at odds with the workers. I need to find a different sandwich place in downtown, because screw Ike. But today I had a very delicious if morally reprehensible cream cheese sandwich with an orange glaze.
I lunched near Jewel Lake, which I love, and then I did a hike out into Wildcat Canyon, which I love, up the hillside along the Conlon Trail, which I don't think I've ever hiked before, then across the Nimitz Way, and back down in Tilden. It was a terrific hike that warded away the cold of fall (winter is coming) and there were beautiful views due to the bit of rain we got last night. (The canyon was still quite wet, but the hillsides quite dry.)
Overall, a great day of hiking.
I didn't get enough R&R and downtime this weekend, but we definitely got things accomplished. Onward. There's still much to be done for Skotos, RPGnet, and Blockstream before year's end.