Our final paperwork from insurance got here for us to sign. It has a cost breakdown that seems to be exclusive of the construction/rebuild work. They spent over $33,000 on rent for our temporary furnished apartment, which kind of blows my mind. They paid the condo corporation $10,000 for something unspecified, and $35,00 to us and a disaster ( Read more... )

I feel like I've mostly not noticed wildfire smoke in Regina, but today it's really significant. It smells like woodsmoke (of course) and is making me feel anxiety. Not quite panic.

Miriam and I have been in the new/old place for a couple nights now. Overall, it's wonderful. We have a couch we don't hate. We have room that isn't taken up by a bunch of furniture we don't need and that isn't ours. We have nice big windows in the living room we can open up and enjoy the breeze through. It's been a long road getting here, and ( Read more... )

Stuff from yesterday:

I went to the dog park with the intent of walking for an hour while Ella ran around, but the whole place was like walking through a living cloud of mosquitoes. Someone even gave me some bug spray and they were *still* getting me. Ugh. I left after about 10 minutes.

In the evening, I unexpectedly smelled a burning-related smell ( Read more... )

In other news, yesterday I heated up the chicken sausages we'd bought in our last grocery collection yesterday for lunch for Miriam and I. As I took them out of the microwave, I smelled something that was really disturbing me. I actually can't remember after that whether I asked Miriam to come and smell them or get them out of the microwave, or ( Read more... )

It's not as wonderful a thing as our other news today, but the replacement CD changer I bought arrived in the mail today. I couldn't find any CDs in it; Miriam thinks maybe the seller noticed them while packing it and took them out. I was only able to plug it into my computer to test at first, since we didn't have an amp, but as I suspected, it ( Read more... )

Someone in Fenelon Falls, Ontario is selling a serviced Marantz 2270 with the original optional wooden cabinet for $2175 CAD, pick-up only. I did the math and it would cost $828 in gas to get there and back, which makes it totally unreasonable. I thought it might be, but it's really disappointing to see the numbers. I really miss long road trips. I ( Read more... )

Insurance has approved our proposed alternates for the stereo, the turntable, and the monitor Miriam was borrowing from work. We approved the new assessment report, so the next thing is that we'll get a check for the "assessed cash value" (ACV) of the items. After we buy replacements and send receipts, we are further reimbursed up to, at maximum, ( Read more... )

I just got a pair of discontinued Klipsch R-51Ms from a local place at a good open-box discount to replace my even more discontinued R-15Ms that had come from Craigslist. Not the first sound system replacement I've bought, but the first one that's physically here. I'm doing what I can to find items under their assessed replacement cost so we can ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find a suitable replacement to give insurance for a unreasonably nice monitor Miriam was borrowing from work and the thing is made of pure unobtanium and there isn't anything much like it either. It was still listed on the Apple store for something like $800 CAD when we first filled out the list, but it's gone now. From there and ( Read more... )