So much for September
What a weekend. I wound up in a 6-person writeoff after last week's Idol poll, so I spent Friday and a lot of Saturday writing an entry for that. Humor! Always fun when I can get it to happen. Please take a look and vote for me if you can. I need all the votes I can get!
I was on a roll Friday. I poked some people at work (my day off) to get a review merged for something I've been stuck on for about... 2 months? I needed help from another team to get our feature to work, and it took awhile until they were available to help. Merged! I can breathe now! And go on to the next overdue thing. \o?
I researched and specified a bunch of stuff for the house, and the project manager turned it around and put it up for approval, so we made a lot of progress there. We might actually meet the end-of-October move-in date. *bites nails* Now I'm starting to worry about having to MINIMALLY replace our mattress/boxsprings, probably at least one sofa, and the rug under the piano before our surviving stuff gets delivered to the house. I mean, both sofas were declared fire losses, but we could get by with one for awhile. Anything upholstered won't have survived, obviously (smoke fumes & toxins). Other things? It's iffy. I canNOT get a straight answer from the restoration people about kitchen stuff. Keepsakes I cleaned from the kitchen took a LOT of work to get the smoke smut off. Will we ever be able to safely eat anything using our dishes & silverware? What about the cookware? I have the feeling we'll be replacing a LOT of that. :(
Wild and not-so-wild life: I saw something on the bike path Friday that was a first-- a Siamese cat in a bike basket! I would be so afraid a cat would jump out while the bike was moving. Conversely, HalfshellHusband swears that a little cottontail bunny came up and looked in the living room window on Saturday. That surprises me. At best, it's a third of a mile to the parkway from here, and that's a long way for a little bunny to hop!
So, 101o temps again starting tomorrow. How's your weather? I'm hoping none of you had hurricane damage. :(
I was on a roll Friday. I poked some people at work (my day off) to get a review merged for something I've been stuck on for about... 2 months? I needed help from another team to get our feature to work, and it took awhile until they were available to help. Merged! I can breathe now! And go on to the next overdue thing. \o?
I researched and specified a bunch of stuff for the house, and the project manager turned it around and put it up for approval, so we made a lot of progress there. We might actually meet the end-of-October move-in date. *bites nails* Now I'm starting to worry about having to MINIMALLY replace our mattress/boxsprings, probably at least one sofa, and the rug under the piano before our surviving stuff gets delivered to the house. I mean, both sofas were declared fire losses, but we could get by with one for awhile. Anything upholstered won't have survived, obviously (smoke fumes & toxins). Other things? It's iffy. I canNOT get a straight answer from the restoration people about kitchen stuff. Keepsakes I cleaned from the kitchen took a LOT of work to get the smoke smut off. Will we ever be able to safely eat anything using our dishes & silverware? What about the cookware? I have the feeling we'll be replacing a LOT of that. :(
Wild and not-so-wild life: I saw something on the bike path Friday that was a first-- a Siamese cat in a bike basket! I would be so afraid a cat would jump out while the bike was moving. Conversely, HalfshellHusband swears that a little cottontail bunny came up and looked in the living room window on Saturday. That surprises me. At best, it's a third of a mile to the parkway from here, and that's a long way for a little bunny to hop!
So, 101o temps again starting tomorrow. How's your weather? I'm hoping none of you had hurricane damage. :(