The only major news is that we have a firm date for when the previous owner of our house gets all his stuff moved out: June 30th. That's about three weeks sooner than the original worst-case plan, so Colleen and I will have the entire month to get moved in, rather than a week. Yay!
I don't seem to have done much this week. I did ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what to say about this week. It's been very stressful; things appear to have worked out ok, most if not all of the stress-causing things are gone, but my self-confidence (what little there was of it) is more-or-less completely gone. I just don't know. Something like that.
Well, let's go for the really good stuff first ( Read more... )

So 2017 started with an inch of snow on the ground, and the entire week has been unseasonably cold. Welcome to global warming? I spent most of last week trying, with limited success, to catch up on the things I'd fallen behind on over my week of vacaton. I may survive the month.
Now that LJ has moved its servers to Russia ( ( Read more... )

Somehow it feels as though I haven't been doing very much lately, and a ( Read more... )

The big news: Friday Colleen went upstairs (supervised by two PTs -- they'd originally been planning to do car transfers but it was raining). They marked out where I should put grab bars; I got one of them in yesterday.

Lots of puttering, last weekend and this. Finally got new showerheads ( Read more... )

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There's probably a reason why the longest warranty we could get for our Ford van was 8 years/80K miles. That's approximately how old our old Mercury van was. My Honda, on the other hand, is warranted for 10 years/100K miles; the last one croaked at about 160K.