Friday Quickie

Howdy, all! Hope you all had a great holiday weekend. Mine was reasonable. For the most part I was working on the house. I got the last major construction project done this weekend: I installed a new floor in my kitchen. Other than that, it was a lot of moving things about, putting in doorknobs, etc. Mostly minor stuff. I’m not even sure I remember half of what I did; the first three days of the long weekend are a total blur. (Damn! I’m too YOUNG for senior moments!!!) The 4th itself was cool though, I simply took the day off and we vegged as a family all day. My boy put on the LOTR dvd’s (extended editions, of course!) and we had a 12+ hour Tolkien marathon. It was a great way to simply relax and unwind with the family. We all just sprawled on the couch and enjoyed the day.

The rest of the week has been crazy. I had three new hires to train at work every day and in the evenings, my wife has been making me nuts about our kitchen table. We bought a beautiful table about a month back but it’s been sitting in the living room, waiting until I got all the work in the kitchen done before we moved it into place. Well, the kitchen floor was the last thing to do, so we moved the table in and The Wife says: “It’s too big.” (sigh) I don’t agree with her but I’ve long since given up trying to win battles like this so I tell her to return it if she wants. Problem is, the store has a 14 day return policy and we’ve has the table for a month now. They finally agree to take it back but with a 25% re-stock fee (nearly $1,000 – Yea, it’s an expensive table.) so we trundle back to the store to find a new table (which of course means more argument with The Wife!) and finally decide on having the store’s carpenters cut down the original table because that will cost less than the re-stock fee. We leave and everbody’s happy. End of story, right? Wrong! Yesterday The Wife changes her mind once again and wants a different table, AND different chairs. (sigh, again) I told her she could do whatever she wants so long as she leaves me the hell out of it! I don’t wanna even hear the word “table” until the new one shows up at the door.

Haven’t done any work on “First” this week but I’ve been making good progress on editing “Fish”. I’m through the first 150 pages or so and moving steady so that’s something.

Well, I still have trainees in, so I gotta run, my break’s about over. Have a good weekend, all.

Later!