sdavido was home today, and he noticed that the house was getting rather cold. Turning up the heat and adjusting the radiators didn't seem to have any effect. Fortunately we have a totally awesome plumber, who was able to wedge us into his already-hectic day. After a bit of experimentation he found the problem: The thermostat had blown. SD- says that ( Read more... )

Someone reminded me that I hadn't posted a photo of the Arisia GOHs with the GOH cake... ( Read more... )

We're losing power in less than 10 minutes! Aiiieeee! I need more time...
("Routine maintenance" is so inconvenient...)

They're painting the stairwells/hallways in our building... I assumed they were going to do neutral colors again (had been shades of brown), but it's looking like the walls are going to be bright yellow, and the trim/railings/doors are going to be army green. Urgh. Aside from the fact that I just Really Don't Like those colors, it also feels like ( Read more... )

They've finally fixed the boiler! Yaaaaaay! I was getting so tired of washing dishes in cold water...

I don't know if I've mentioned this here before, but for several months we've been hearing a loud, rumbling noise, like a train, running through our ceiling. Our neighbor upstairs has had the same noise in her floor, so we were pretty sure it was coming from a pipe or something in between our units. The three of us have been alternately nagging ( Read more... )

Finally got everything put back in the kitchen cabinet! Yay! It took longer than I would have liked because when I started putting stuff back in, I realized that a couple shims got misplaced during the repair work, so if I loaded the cabinet it would fall over. Not good. I didn't have a chance to buy more shims until Friday, and we weren't ( Read more... )

The work on our kitchen walls has finally been completed. Yay! It looks sooo much better, it's amazing... you almost can't tell anything ever happened. It's nice to have walls that don't look like there are slime creatures living in them.
Now I just have to put the kitchen back together... sort through the bags and figure out what goes where. ( Read more... )

I know you're all thrilled by the ongoing saga, so...
The plumber fixed the new leak, and replaced a couple other old rusty valves while he was in there. But when he finished, the maintenance guy called me and said he thought it was too late in the day (2 p.m.) to start tearing the walls apart. And they're not working Monday (Columbus Day)... so ( Read more... )

The maintenance men came this morning and took the patch off the wall, only to discover that one of the other valves inside was leaking. (Not nearly as bad as the last time, but still, they didn't want to seal it up like that.) They couldn't get the plumber to come today, so they're supposed to come back with him tomorrow, and once he fixes the ( Read more... )