Thursday's Trials

I was up early again today, too much daylight too early I guess. This morning I tried something different, I read the paper and then went out back to pick some blueberries and raspberries for my cereal. For a creature of habit this was quite a change!

After finishing breakfast, I emptied the dishwasher load that I did yesterday morning. I did not get to do it yesterday and when we got back from Alyssa's last night I was too tired to think about doing it. So by the time I got the dishwasher emptied and put away, I loaded it up again with yesterdays and this mornings dishes.

By this time the mail came, so I went out and got it, there was quite a lot there as there was no mail delivery yesterday. I started going through it, but then I though that I would go outside and work in the garden for a while before it got too hot to be out in the sun.

I came in about 1130 and shortly after that the electrician called and said that he was on his way. Knowing that our power would be out for a while I made myself lunch with the leftover wild rice and salmon salad and the rest of the potato salad form a couple days ago. He arrived a little after noon and I showed him the problem area. Well to make a long story short, he said that there was more to it than just what was on the work order.

He called the estimator to find out what to do, but he was in a meeting, I found out later. So he said that since he could not get a hold of him it would be better not to do anything because the two options were to do what was on the work order and take a chance that the city inspector or the power company would say that we needed to bring it up to present day code.

The other option was to bring everything up to present day code, at a cost of ~$7000, so I thought that it would be better an probably cheaper to have him talk to the estimator and see what he says.

Making a very long story short: the estimator called me back a little after 1500 and told me that I would be better off talking to the city inspector and the power company myself, so he gave me the phone numbers.

I spent the next hour or so coordinating with the city inspector's office, the power company and the electrical contractor company and have rescheduled to have the work done two weeks from tomorrow. It looks like the original work order could have been completed as written, but I would rather play it safe and make sure that everyone was happy with the decision.

After all that I sat down in my chair and started going through the mail. Somewhere along the way I fell asleep and woke up about 1630. So I decided to watch the news, but that put me to sleep again.

I woke up around 1830 and went upstairs to ask Kathleen if she felt up to making dinner, she said she would. She has not felt very well all day, so if she had not felt like it I was going to make myself either a salad or a Boca burger for dinner. She came downstairs and made a chicken and wild rice dish that tasted really good.

Well, I do not feel like I accomplished much today, but I feel like I worked hard all day. I am pretty sure this will be an early to bed night. At least with the forth of July past the neighborhood should be quieter. Well I guess that I will just call it a day and say good night.