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May 24, 2006

The sun finally came out today......I like it. I think we were one day short of a record for continuous days of rain. No way could I live where it rained this much on a normal basis...Got that big brother (and BunnyBeth!)? I was definitely beginning to twitch.

Today's bathroom adventure: The side piece of the shower door is shattered. It only took 45 minutes on hold for sweet young thing to tell me I had 3 days from receipt to call for a replacement. (3 days was up last Friday) I asked her what she thought I should do about getting a replacement piece since *I* was not going to buy a whole shower door unit for $500+. In the old days, I think I would have said something like..oh well, my loss. My persistence lead her to call in her supervisor. ..or maybe it was the quiver in my voice mumbling something about 45 minutes on hold and shattered glass, and unfinished bathroom, of course we didn't need to open all of the packaging, and 13 straight days of rain.. whimper. Her supervisor was agreeable to a swap. I suspect neither one wanted to be the cause my my going over the edge..commitment has such a permanent ring to it. I still have to box up the WHOLE shower door unit for shipment back to them though. I think a baggie would do fine for the shattered pieces. Fortunately, Leo needed to check out that piece today instead of waiting until "installation day". We bought some wiggle room to get the new door here, I hope.

The fancy tiles have an "up" side to them as well as a particular placement in the scheme of things. I drew graphs..then I modified them then I miscounted fancy tiles needed, then Leo bellowed to me to question my graphs...ooppsss never mind. He discovered he had the graph upside down, *I* discovered he had the wrong wall graph. All is well and the tiles are going up albeit slowly. What's done looks good.

Oh yeah, I fixed the upstairs toilet so it doesn't leak anymore. Hmmm...I bought new innards because I couldn't get the pieces I thought I needed. Installing them made me aware of the fact that whoever installed the old pieces, probably put the washer in upside down. I also suspect that "whoever" was me. sigh.

We may not get more rain for a day or two which means I may not have to gnaw off one or more of my limbs...I have to admit to getting a little on the crazed side. In the meantime the cats have been crazed, Knoel has a big scab on his head and ~Elmo has been limping for nearly 2 weeks now. I can't find anything really visible wrong so I'm thinking he has a sprain. Wonder how long I should wait for it to heal.

I think I need to go outside for a bit..have a fine evening all...

Posted by frani at May 24, 2006 04:25 PM

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I'm late commenting, so I hope that it is not raining in Vermont today. Thanks also for commenting, on my blog, about my mom's death. Have a great day and stay well. Customer service these days STINKS; I'm glad you persisted and they made it right. Take care.

Posted by: bunnybeth at May 29, 2006 03:50 PM

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