you stop working on the house for a few days.
This was a real vacation.
So the only progress I have to report is that the broken window is no longer broken!
That is a task that has been weighing down my mind for at least three years. You'd think, hey, broken window, get that fixed, y'know? We did, in fact, call a few glaziers. One even showed up to look at it when he said he would. Once. Then disappeared. (What is it with the disappearing workmen, eh?) Then we were caught up in the idea that we were going to do a full remodel on the house, which would mostly have involved scraping large portions of it, including the room containing that window. No use spending $500 on a project that would be irrelevant Some Day Real Soon Now.
Finally found a guy to do it. I called damn near every glass repair and glass installation place in the state, and in all cases it was either too small a job or they didn't come out our way. Finally I got desperate enough to snivel a little at one place, and the next day the phone woman said that, while they couldn't do it themselves, they could hook me up with a side job guy they use. (Is it just me or does "side job" sound pretty dirty?) Side Job Man told us he could do it for $500 and I almost proposed to him.
Now it's done, and I will rest tonight and prepare myself for...The Tub.
