Status:
I've been neglectful in posting pictures of the completed patio project because it's not
quite completed and when I post the pictures, I want to post them of the
finished-finished product. I have a ton of planting to do, there are some trim pieces for the firepit and the BBQ that need to be chosen and inserted, and half of the granite on the BBQ counter has to be recut. The installers blew the cut the first time and it doesn't fit right so the tile company is paying for an entire new slab. That should all be done by the end of this week, and when it is I'll post a before-and-after photo extravaganza.
On a completely different subject, I quit my job in October because I somehow landed
the job I never dared even dream about. Sometimes in my dreams, my dream-self would fantasize about it, but then I'd immediately jolt awake, laughing at the implausibility. But I actually
got the job, right, and I signed a contract stating I would write a 170-page book over the course of the next year with the initial research and interviews to begin mid-October / early-November. But it hasn't started yet. And that makes sense, really, considering the way the world works; it's a giant project with a lot of money and a lot of people involved, so I should have planned for a delay. I thought about the possibility at the time, but I also wanted to make sure I gave my current employer enough time to hire and train a replacement in the event that the project
did start on time, so I gave my notice.
Word on the street is that we'll be starting sometime in the next two weeks. That's a
lot of time I've spent out of work. Even when I was doing accounting, I usually had some freelance technical writing work to do-- safety manuals, employee handbooks, other projects outsourced by various human resource departments-- but again, I made sure I wrapped all of that up in anticipation of
this.
So! Two weeks! Until then it's me and some socks and buttons and more socks and some other socks. And that sock over there. Yeah, bring me that one.
