Trying to catch up. Got hit with my chronic fatigue & forgot to take my meds but am feeling a bit better now. I know I need to lose some weight to not feel so run down but I feel so run down it's hard to get up & move. At least it's not as bad as when I was having symptoms similar to Klein Levins Syndrome.
Sorry to hear your husband has defective repair parts. It's bad enough that he had to go through getting that all put in, but to have it be defective is a big kick in the teeth.
I'm sure that desk is extremely expensive & the only showroom seems to be in Pennsylvania. Wish they had stuff like that around here. I was very sad when the Furniture Traditions company went belly up. They had online order options, although they were expensive. They had really cool features like hidden drawers, secret gun compartments, secret jewelry compartments, & were made of solid wood.
Sounds like it would work great for my BIL's Corvette then. My truck can be cleaned up & the paint on it is pretty good BUT it's very hard to get & keep clean because we have no indoor garage areas. It's exposed to pollen, dust, leaves, & bugs constantly. Plus cats like to climb on it. I'm sure if I put that stuff on my cats would jump on the truck.
They do the holding the package thing where I live. If it rains they won't even deliver at all but they have legitimate reason. Roads aren't safe when they flood, are full of pot holes, and up until recently most of them were unpaved. My personal road is still unpaved so they don't like doing down it. The drivers have admitted to me they deliver to my area last so they don't jostle their packages as much. That's fine with me, but it sucks when they wait a few days & I need something asap. Usually if there is a delay I talk to them about letting me meet them in town to pick it up, but they don't always inform me. It's against their policy to not deliver some stuff on time but they don't care. My BIL used to work for FedEx in Albuquerque area & he told me about the rules there & said there was one place they weren't allowed to deliver to after dark- Meadow Lake neighborhood of Los Lunas. One of their drivers got carjacked there. I believe it may have been the incident my father told me about where a Chinese assassin (I know, sounds like a fiction but was no joke) attacked/killed the driver, stole the uniform & the truck, and used the guise to infiltrate the local prison to find a political prisoner inside to murder him. His location wasn't supposed to be known, but some jackhole in the press leaked that the inmate was being held there. By political prisoner, I mean it was someone who filed for asylum from China bc he was a political rival of the powers in China & they wanted him dead. Might have been 2 separate incidents though. My memory is fuzzy on a lot of stuff now.
Ah, the bureaucracy of the bean counters. Back when my father was a relatively new OIC (officer in charge) of an INS unit, he was informed that his office area didn't meet OSHA standards for minimum space requirements. He consulted engineers & found the blueprints to identify a non-loadbearing wall. He then contacted higher ups to have the wall removed. They told him they would get to it in 6 months. OSHA told him they would fine him for every single day that the space was too small & he couldn't just up & move. He told the higher ups that, but they didn't care (they would have penalized him/taken disciplinary action for his office getting fined but still wouldn't do anything to prevent it). So he got a sledgehammer, took the wall down himself, then called the higher ups to say there was a huge pile of debris & they needed to have their maintenance people come clean it up asap. They weren't happy about it, but it saved them $ on hiring contractors & the office wasn't getting fined.
Been somewhat productive. I did putty & touch-ups with the stain on my friend's cabinets & got the poly coat on. It's a single coat deal so I only had to do it once. We had a good laugh over how much the stuff looked like ejaculate. It coated well & is water resistant. Cabinets wipe down a lot easier. I had to scrub the older ones clean bc my friends didn't clean them first (I was a teeny bit miffed about that). Almost got nailed by the ceiling fan while doing the pantry but asked my friend to turn it off. Discovered that it just barely clears the top of the upper pantry door. Got most of them in one shot but had to wait to do the side of the pantry (needed to have touch-ups dry) and the corner cabinet (again, needed some touch-ups to dry) so I came back the next day & finished it off, then played with the kittens. I got them some toys-- only thing small enough for them were little poop emojis with ribbons. They seem to enjoy playing with them.
Ate waaaay too many chocolate chip cookies & fudge rounds so my stomach hates me. LOL.
Mom got some calls from Social Security to set up her benefits now that she's 70. She had put it off until that age because she'd been told she'd make more $ by waiting but apparently that changed. They said they found reference to my father's Army Reserve service but couldn't locate his records for active duty service in 'nam. Here's where the family curse kicks in (of weird unlucky things happening). So, he was told by the Army that his records were burned in a fire at the records facility BUT the online references all claim the fire didn't affect records from that date range. So either they just lost his records & lied, or more records burned than they were admitting. I think it may be the latter because that is just the sort of luck we have. They told Mom she needs his DD214s or something like that. I thought he had them (since he needed them to get his retirement benefits) but we have no idea where they are. I looked on his old hard drive (which I backed up on to mine) but only found the blank dd214 form. I know his MOS & the date he went in. I can find the date he was discharged too, but not sure quite how to find it without having to send all sorts of formal stuff in the mail.
To end on a happy note, here is a comparison between my vision for the cabinets in Sketchup & the actual cabinets after they were finished (well, almost-- toekick trim still needs to go in). Pretty damn close.
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