User talk:TheEileen/Nov 2008
November 2008
27 Nov 2008
happy thanksgiving! Updated list and wiki. Many movements and four posted projects. huzzah! I did nothing but some minor mentoring and dp-feedback. The stress is still so high that DP, which I love, still uses too many of the same skills as work and so I come home and read or just play card games and try to zen out.
Weather has finally turned chilly enough for me to break out the puffy coat. Dropping below 40 at night. Definitely my bedroom and office are colder than the rest of the house. That is the same as before new heating system, and the guys said it wouldn't get much better. They were right. Except, I swear my bedroom does level off to fairly comfy eventually. I haven't hit that bit where when I get up at 2am to pee, I'm freezing the whole time I'm out from under the covers. It's actually okay. We'll see what January is like.
Work still a pain. New person started, and she's doing very well. We understand each other and communicate well. I don't have to mentor her, just give her the steps to the work to do and then she's off on her own and does the job and keeps it going. Great. The guy - a washout. Some people have pointed out he exhibits many signs of depression as men present it - aggressive, outward directed, mood swings, etc. etc. It's been freaking bizarre and I would say I hit the wall this week. I've got my list to give to my boss and he has got to deal with it. I'm done. I will not deal with this crap any more. I don't know if I truly can just say "no, not acceptable, I won't accept that", cuz that is very confrontational and hard for me. My main reaction is always to try to reasonable discuss and he won't. I don't want to re-detail my issues, it just riles me up again. But I'm happy I got a little caught up. By the 20th I was actually completely caught up on forums but hit some exhausted nights and social events that soon got me behind again. I may or may not decide to try to catch them all. We'll see.
15 Nov 2008
Updated list. No time to update wiki. Then I went and looked at my large list and updated some there, getting one posted project and a few movements. But not much else. I'm nearly done with my redo of images for content.
Weather hadn't turned as cold as it could be. The days are often sunny for a few hours and it doesn't drop below 45 at night. Finally on the 12th I got the whole house heat thing done. I am going to write a letter to the company. Not a complaint, more of a suggestion. They need to spell out to the homeowners the sequence of events. Each person who showed up told me the next part but since I didn't have an overall plan it took longer. If I had known that I need to have everything inspected (and saying, 'you have a permit' doesn't automatically translate to me as "you need to then arrange for an inspection"), I would have planned for that and had much of this happen sooner. If I had known the "charge up" of the system could take 3-5 hours, rather than the 30 minutes implied by the comments (we will come between 3-5pm - does that sound like the job would be a 4 hour job? who shows up at 5pm and works for 4 hours?????), again, I would have arranged things better.
Job is still hard - guy there is going through something and he's dragging me through the ringer also. The stress levels are going through the roof.
07 Nov 2008
Updated list and wiki. Two projects moved, none posted. Continuing to work on punicorum and my CP fixes to the images (all need color removed - slow going but I'm getting there). I've caught up on forums - huzzah. I'm starting in again on L'eclarissement. I really should do more spaldings but I don't wanna. hee.
The weather has turned rainy but not that cold - it got up to 58 today. It's nearly 10pm and it's still about 55 out there. So, they came on Tuesday the 4th and put in my heat pump/ac. That was a long day and of course chilly and rainy (the next day was much milder and drier) so I was cold with no heat in my house all day. However, I swear it has been a ton warmer since then even though they haven't turned on the heat pump. They can't until it is inspected. So, I called for inspection for Thursday because it never occurred to me that the inspector would come at 7:45 in the morning. I had several things scheduled on Wednesday starting at 11:30 (therapy, massage, hair, etc.) So, I call on Wednesday for a Thursday appointment. It's all phone computer, and you get a DATE, no time. The phone rings on Thursday morning at 7:45am. I was up, lucky; I was in the bathroom dealing with upset tummy, not lucky. Lucky, that the inspector spoke on my answering machine for like five minutes, I'm not exaggerating. It allowed me to make it to the phone and I was able to buzz him in. So, I'm in my robe and he takes a glance, no more, at the heater/furnace in my garage and then a glance, no more, at the unit on my back porch. Okay - he's done. He was gone by 8am. He points out that the electrical permit was from the wrong city so I can't get that done until that is fixed. This is one of those things of the "if I had but known" variety. If I had but known - I would have said f*** it and called for both electrical and mechanical on Tuesday FOR Thursday. But two of the guys said to me that I had to have the electrical done last - so I figured I had to wait until after the mechanical. Now I know better, I could have called them both in that day for Wednesday, learned that the electrical was wrong. Instead, Thursday I call the company and they are all "Okay, we'll get that to you today". I had been bummed I was going to have to hang out at my house all day for the inspector, and then quite happy that he came that early. Then bummed again due to having to hang out waiting for the electrician. In addition, suddenly the phone number to the heating company doesn't work. I have to leave messages on people's cells. They don't know why it is doing that and now they are having to get the city to fix that.
Does the electrician show up anytime on Thursday? No, he shows up mid-day on Friday. Now, I may not have had any plans for either of those days, but it is the whole, YOU HAVE TO BE HOME IN CASE SOMEONE COMES BY, that I hate. I feel trapped. It makes me want to do nothing in my house, I want to be out of it. I want to go shopping or get lunch or see a movie. Instead, I'm stuck at home. In addition, I managed to have this horrible dream Thursday morning, so I woke up crying. And couldn't stop for almost 10 minutes. I hate those dreams. I don't have them very often, and in one respect I am very, very grateful that it happened on vacation, because I've learned that if I try to go to work and interact with people after one of them, it doesn't work. Yes, I've actually had to take a day off work when those hit. I don't think it's related to my grandma because that wasn't the theme of the dream. The theme was neglect and disrespect which is what I've been feeling from work for some time and so I think, more it was that. Finally coming out in some ways. I really wish that having it come out like that means I've processed it and can deal with it better, but I can't be sure.
So, by the way, now I have to take some time off next week for the electrician to come and the heat guys. I just know that if I depend on this inspector coming at 7:45am, he'll show up randomly at 3pm or something. Then I have to have the heating guys come back and charge the heat pump. Part of me wants to schedule them for the same day, but late in the afternoon, but again, the thought is: the heat guys will show and the electrical inspector won't have been there yet. I do not love spending all this money and not having this working. In my discussion with the heating guys I realized that in fact, since they don't actually deal with the inspectors, they haven't a clue about when they come and how and such and how to arrange it, so they wouldn't have been any help anyway, but boy, I wish that the city would have a real person to talk to - you cannot call and get a human, you are dashed well stuck with the telephone computer. ARGH.
So - frustrated, annoyed, my head hurts, but overall my house is actually warmer. ha! I think it's the temperature controller/sensor. It's tons better.
02 Nov 2008
Updated list and wiki. Only one project moved around. I've been trying to work on punicorum as it is nearly done. Then I can concentrate on the sixteen other projects. Sigh. And catch up in forums. I'm nearing that.
Life is okay. Grandma passed away on Monday. It's been expected for a while and I seem to feel mostly release and relief for her and for me. Because I got to see her when she was still lucid and we said our good-byes then, I don't have that "if only" going on. I love her and I miss her but *SHE* has been gone for a while. I'm off this week, getting the house heating done. The weather has finally turned cooler and rainy and yet today I was without a coat all day. Too hot for one (I'd say upper 50's to low 60's). I've been stuffy and sort of allergy-ish for about two weeks and phlegm-ed out the max. Ugh. So, I'm trying to dial back the stress levels. We'll see.
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