(hopefully) until the kitchen floor is finished. One more day (hopefully) until the appliances are back in place and I don't have to have yet another bowl of granola for dinner. I like granola, I'm just tired after a week of it for dinner.
After my trip to Cleveland last week, I missed two more days of work thanks to a nasty case of bronchitis, something I haven't had for a decade. I haven't missed it at all! Then, just to put the grey icing on the cupcake of doom that was last week, in addition to the floor being sanded, I developed a sinus infection. I am now recovering from both illnesses, but it's been a week I don't want to live through again any time soon.
Also, I decided that I am going to bring the map home from Cleveland and just plain have it framed at Joann or Michael's or Pat Catan's. I don't need to spend $2,000 for museum-quality framing for something I just want to hang in my living room and enjoy.
Oh, and Little Miss Piggie Pie continues to have the staff at Valley Animal Hospital snowed--they tell me every day how sweet she is. However, in her favor, she was a snuggly little girl last weekend when I needed a nap partner, and she didn't even huff much when my coughing shook her off the bed.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Nice day for a drive to Cleveland
It was warm and sunny this morning, so Mimi's map and I took a confusing drive to ICA Art Conservation on Detroit Ave. Between heavy traffic even though it was technically after rush hour, it's a good thing I left 25 minutes early. I arrived with time to spare, and a (or possibly the) paper restorer spread the map on the table and was kind enough to say it was in really amazing shape. Apparently a missing bottom dowel and some small tears are minimal damaged--the restorer said that most maps they see are absolutely trashed and that my grandmother must have taken good care of her things. The copyright date on the map is 1895, and Dad was right, it was made by Rand-McNally.
Although I had joked about paying anything under 5 figures, it turns out that to have the map cleaned, restored and custom-framed would in fact cost about $10,000.00. When I said that was not in my budget, they said for about $2,000 they can repair the small tears and encase it in Mylar, which can then be attached to the old case. So I left the map with them for a full exam and quote, and got to drive along the Shoreway on a sunny day, looking a blue skies and a lake still almost completely iced up.
Then I took Mucinex for the chest cold which is trying to develop and took a nap.
Oh, and of course I now have a picture of the map:
Saturday, March 14, 2015
It takes more than blue skies
...to make a happy Jammies. I hate DST. Just when I was getting used to it being light when I got up, now it's back to pitch black and the alarm clock.
The weather's been warm and springlike all week, with two days of blue skies mid-week. Unfortunately, this week was also Call Day, and it was a big one this month. I hadn't gotten my Lexapro refilled, so I missed one dose on that day, which didn't help. Granted, it didn't hurt all that much since it's a cumulative medication, I just felt a little dizzy and foggy-headed.
The good news is that I'm getting the mechanics of Call Day to a point where they're pretty smooth, and the judge really likes being able to send folks straight to the help desk. That will be even smoother when the renovations are finished and the help desk is directly across the hall from the courtroom. I did say one stupid thing in court, which led to a resolution to keep my mouth shut (hard for me to do, as those who know me well would say). The judge was nice about it, and didn't say anything when we were on the record, but she did discuss it with me the next day.
AT&T is providing miserable customer service, including offering a "payment arrangement" that is actually a demand, then cutting off my phone four days before the agreed-upon date, then saying I'll have to pay $30 to have my service re-connected. The flooring people I agreed to allow to start my floor with less than a day's notice so their workers would have something to do have left me for a week with an unsanded, unstained floor and no word on when it will be finished.
So the blue skies are nice, but I'd like more, please.
The weather's been warm and springlike all week, with two days of blue skies mid-week. Unfortunately, this week was also Call Day, and it was a big one this month. I hadn't gotten my Lexapro refilled, so I missed one dose on that day, which didn't help. Granted, it didn't hurt all that much since it's a cumulative medication, I just felt a little dizzy and foggy-headed.
The good news is that I'm getting the mechanics of Call Day to a point where they're pretty smooth, and the judge really likes being able to send folks straight to the help desk. That will be even smoother when the renovations are finished and the help desk is directly across the hall from the courtroom. I did say one stupid thing in court, which led to a resolution to keep my mouth shut (hard for me to do, as those who know me well would say). The judge was nice about it, and didn't say anything when we were on the record, but she did discuss it with me the next day.
AT&T is providing miserable customer service, including offering a "payment arrangement" that is actually a demand, then cutting off my phone four days before the agreed-upon date, then saying I'll have to pay $30 to have my service re-connected. The flooring people I agreed to allow to start my floor with less than a day's notice so their workers would have something to do have left me for a week with an unsanded, unstained floor and no word on when it will be finished.
So the blue skies are nice, but I'd like more, please.
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