Oct 15/16 - in the land of the living

I forgot to post this one, so I'll make it a two-day'er ...

It always takes a day to feel like I'm back in the world, after a 3+ day ride.  A 600k is only 1.5 days so it takes 1000k or longer to get to this point with the bloated-but-hungry feeling that comes from three days of convenience store food and dehydration.  The legs ache; I sit funny on my chair; I don't feel in synch with the world.

Yesterday was that re-alignment day.  Tiling continued in the kitchen and into the living room.  The former is done; the latter is about 1/3 done.  Today the last few perimeter tiles will be laid in the laundry room; it and the kitchen will be grouted; tiling will continue in the living room and up into the dining room.  The tiling cannot be completed before the stairs are installed and I'm not sure of that timing.  Hopefully I'll hear from Jim this morning re the stairs.

I got a phone message while we were out to dinner (remember we don't have a kitchen !) from Duane the painter.  He's another one that I need to catch up with regarding timing.  He would have liked to paint before the stairs go in but I don't think that will happen.  Will he be able to paint before the furniture gets moved in ?  Hopefully !

I did do a few things.  I cleaned my embarrassingly dirty car and Harley in the garage.  I primed the new drywall in the garage which makes the rest of the garage look dingy.  I guess that cannot be helped.  I did some Randonneurs Ontario work, getting the year-end accounting squared away and sending those reports to my fellow board members for tonight's conference call.

We went to Peter's wine bar for dinner.  He's next door to three restaurants, including a sushi place.  We ordered sushi, which they delivered, and Nancy, at Peter's poured the wine.  Three large glasses (we shared the third) were less than $10.  Sushi is more expensive than the other places but dinner can be had for < $20 and wine by-the-bottle, without "bar" or "restaurant" prices makes this a real deal.  To quote Arny, "I'll be back".  We are thinking Thai tonight; we'll check to see if Harris and Debbie are available.

Tomorrow my work starts as they install the kitchen.  I've got some basic plumbing to do around a temporary sink that they'll supply with a plywood counter.  We'll be "live" again but still mostly living in the bedroom, since we'll hold off moving furniture into the main living area.  I suppose that once the dining room is setup Sandy can move some stuff into the buffet/hutch and we could get the table and server moved too ... things will start to move back into "normal" range.  Whew !

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All bets are off.  Leverage goes.

That's what happens when you have to push one contractor off for another's delay.  So today, when the over-and-over rescheduled Vic is supposed to be here, we're looking at this afternoon, maybe, for some deliveries -- work to be done ?  Don't know.  The same thing is likely to happen with AP (tiler) because he's going to have to wait until Monday for the stairs.  We'll probably end up with a couple of days of down time waiting for him to return.  That will, in turn, push off the painting.  We'll be living out of the bedroom for quite some time.

In the meantime, the kitchen is completed, from a tiling standpoint.  The laundry room is back in operation -- I've actually done a load of laundry (biking clothes).

Two-thirds of the living room is done, but not grouted, and they're working on the steps into the dining room as I write this.  I do get the feeling that AP doesn't have a batch of work in front of him because they left at 2pm yesterday.  That said, he's very fast when he's working and very good.  Like our tiler up north, it's all by eye.  He could have been Italian !

Onward ... slowly ...