i've been running around a bit more than usual, and now sit typing this on sunday night, in front of the fire, with seth on the floor in front of me, and di drawing at the kitchen table ten feet away. dexter gordon on the stereo, and life is good. we made soup.
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wednesday morning, i got to the shop around 8, with diana and seth. seth got plenty of extra petting today, since it's his ninth birthday.
di started in on grouting the spray-out booth, and i shuffled around doing random odd things which needed doing.
the water meter woman came by at 8:30 to install the new water meter. she loves dogs, and cites "foreigners" as the source of most of the world's problems. flooded basements, stray dogs, high property values, the weird ductwork in my building i had to remove back in august: all due to foreigners. huh, i didn't know.
she left, finally. sara arrived and set about touching up the paint on some of the trim. jack arrived, and we headed down to roscoe village to meet with the accountant. that was actually fun, and i came away feeling great about the business side of stuff.
we stopped at hot doug's on the way back, and ate our dogs in the car. BLT dogs. gggggghhhhgghh.
back at the shop, diana finished and took off with seth. the tub looks great. jack took off. the plumbing inspector arrived half an hour early, and was actually surprisingly chipper, attempting "humor" and "friendliness" which are traits i had previously not thought him capable of. he cited me for a newly-discovered missing check valve (which i subsequently called the plumber for), and said he wouldn't stand in the ay of us opening. awesome.
2pm rolled around, and the general building inspector came by. green light from steve.
erik the electrical inspector came back, scowled at most things, but gave us the go-ahead.
the fire inspector came by pushed the test buttons on the emergency lights, checked the dates on the charges on our extinguishers, and cited me for having too much clutter in the back of the building. well, duh. he said he'd come back in a couple weeks to see where we were at, but gave us the sign-off.
he left, and sara was beaming. i sat down and almost cried. so much relief. we took about two minutes to bask in the glow of passing the inspections, then set to work dragging things out from under tarps and plastic sheeting. sara needed to be on the train soon after 5pm, but we made some serious progress up to then.
dropped sara at the train, went home for 20 minutes, then headed out to practice. stephanie came to play, and we ran through the songs she plays on, focussing on the vocals. she left, and we covered a couple other things we're working on.
home, emails, and to bed.
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