The contractor came over to talk about the bathroom: for our rinkydink retro matchbox of a water closet, the estimate came in to 60% of what I projected. Yes, I'm Rain Man in that I don't know what things cost, and assume the worst of any scenario.
It's mildly curious that so much of my working life is dealing with high-tech and beta software and yet-unpublished protocols, but I live in an old house and if I could swing it, I'd have a Victrola. I think the woman who owned this house before I did, and who lived here fifty years, just had her husbands (sequentially) add stuff here and there as they had the money, as we're doing.
For the codgers like me out there: Muppet Show's "Beaker" = Stan Laurel?
'It will not cost $9000.'
April 29th, 2008 at 08:09 pm
April 29th, 2008 at 08:45 pm
I think its a great exercise for anyone to co-exist in at least two different planes of time. Makes you more mentally flexible.
April 30th, 2008 at 06:04 am
April 30th, 2008 at 07:27 am
April 30th, 2008 at 09:25 am
Baselle is totally correct about the "planes of time". Just try not to fall off the plane!!! Would love to see pics when the remodel is done.