Greetings, dear friends, family and anyone else so blessed as to happen upon my blog. It has indeed been quite a while since my last house update. Actually, i guess it’s been quite a while since an update of any kind. Sorry about that.
Jerm Status
We’ve been exceedingly busy with the house. The past week or so has been filled with (literally) 18 hour days. On tuesday, for instance, having gotten back from working on the house at midnight the night before, i was back and workin at 730am. I got into the office by 9:15, then was back at the house from 5:45 until about 1am. The upside of this is that we’re making exceedingly speedy progress, the downside is that the fatigue is really getting to me. It was only because we left the house by 11pm this evening that I’m awake for any time after getting home, and a complete miracle that i have the brainpower to write coherantly (for me, anyway.)
House Status
As of this writing we have 2 of 3 bedrooms and the kitchen ceiling completely painted. These rooms are awaiting carpeting. The other bedroom and livingroom are primed, ceilings and trim mostly done, just waiting for the wall expanses to be covered.
We passed our final electrical inspection today and will be likely be getting our final building inspection on monday. The nice lady at the building department mentioned that we can indeed move in before then so we’re not completely screwed.
I’m sitting at my desk at work. A few moments ago, my brilliant expat Puerto Rican coworker sayd to me, “Jerm, let me tell you, if I had a lot of money, I’d be down in the Carribean.”
Me: “You WERE in the Carribean. You left.”
Her: “Oh. Right.”
So there were were at the end of august…. puzting aroudn with the pre-electrician wiring, doing little stuff here and there, and coming dangerously close to stagnation. I was completely overthinking the while electrical wiring updating scheme and finally broke down and just called the electrician. Figuring the moeny that i’d save on labor by doing most of it myself would be far overshadowed by the further rent that would need to be paid at our current dwellings while i fumbled through the process.
So we called Al. I like Al. He’s the husband of a dear coworker friend of mine, so i knew him before we hired him. He was an electrician years ago, then became a commercial/charter pilot flying Citations and Lears, and then went back to electricianism for fun & profit. Suffice to say he’s intelligent, fabulously detail oriented, and fun to work with. We made the best of the frightening state of mt former house wiring and turned it into something that i actually feel safe about living with. This all happened over the course of a few days and now were’ ready for our wiring and framing inspections. Once those are done, we can insulate and sheetrock. The end is nigh….