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Okay, so now the hallway (third floor, where I work) smells like burning plastic. Ugh. I wish the second-floor remodelling would finish, but I think we have another couple-three weeks of various indignities. First floor had some kind of plastic thing up to catch dust, they're moving a wall and doing heaven-knows-what in the ceilings. I think it's time and past time for me to start going out the back door - which means I parked in the wrong place today. (The back door goes straight out to an outdoor stairwell, single flight down - the second floor is the ground floor, there, I think the first stops further over.)
April 8th, 2002
So, today got better. Work was really busy, and I scrambled to get a few extra things done - so I left 20 minutes after I'd been aiming for.
Fortunately, I know my work. I'd been aiming to leave 45 minutes before the inspection, for a drive that takes 15 minutes - in clear traffic; I was expecting 20-25 minutes. It turned out to be 15 minutes, so I arrived 10 minutes early, but even if it had been heavier lunch-hour traffic, I'd have been okay.
The inspection went really well - they didn't find a lot. It was supposed to take two and a half or three hours, with paperwork after, but it took two with paperwork after, which was really nice. Meant I could get all the papers up to the mortgage company - our lender was in a meeting but they photocopied the papers to provide to him, and I'll call him tomorrow.
We could have gotten $500 on claims of doing the work ourselves; it will probably only cost $250 or so; but there were a couple items we wanted done before we started moving in, so we just asked for the seller to do the lot. They can have the extra $250, it'll be easier on us.
After running the papers over, Scott and I headed for the Japanese Gardens, with a stop for fast food along the way. He was fine, I was starving. This might be because I raced to work with a minimal breakfast to get more work time in, expecting to buy lunch and eat it while working, and instead forgot the 11 am meeting and hence never really had time thereafter to deal with lunch without making myself late. By almost 5, I was starving. Food made it all better, though.
The gardens were gorgeous - early-spring gorgeous, most things still coming into leaf and flower, very pretty. I took a few pictures, but not many - mostly we wandered. Scott forgot his card but, since we have a family plus membership (which permits guests), he just came in as my "guest". That works. I love it when they go back to summer hours. ;)
( And, just for my own amusement, a laundry-list of the items found in the inspection. This is _so_ minor. )
Fortunately, I know my work. I'd been aiming to leave 45 minutes before the inspection, for a drive that takes 15 minutes - in clear traffic; I was expecting 20-25 minutes. It turned out to be 15 minutes, so I arrived 10 minutes early, but even if it had been heavier lunch-hour traffic, I'd have been okay.
The inspection went really well - they didn't find a lot. It was supposed to take two and a half or three hours, with paperwork after, but it took two with paperwork after, which was really nice. Meant I could get all the papers up to the mortgage company - our lender was in a meeting but they photocopied the papers to provide to him, and I'll call him tomorrow.
We could have gotten $500 on claims of doing the work ourselves; it will probably only cost $250 or so; but there were a couple items we wanted done before we started moving in, so we just asked for the seller to do the lot. They can have the extra $250, it'll be easier on us.
After running the papers over, Scott and I headed for the Japanese Gardens, with a stop for fast food along the way. He was fine, I was starving. This might be because I raced to work with a minimal breakfast to get more work time in, expecting to buy lunch and eat it while working, and instead forgot the 11 am meeting and hence never really had time thereafter to deal with lunch without making myself late. By almost 5, I was starving. Food made it all better, though.
The gardens were gorgeous - early-spring gorgeous, most things still coming into leaf and flower, very pretty. I took a few pictures, but not many - mostly we wandered. Scott forgot his card but, since we have a family plus membership (which permits guests), he just came in as my "guest". That works. I love it when they go back to summer hours. ;)
( And, just for my own amusement, a laundry-list of the items found in the inspection. This is _so_ minor. )
