Developments

There have been a few....minor ones, and one relatively major one. The minor ones involve making phone calls, not getting them returned, and then making some more until we get response.

For instance, Liane will call the Project Manager several times with no response. Then I call, and he'll answer. Probably doesn't recognize my work number. Or maybe he is genuine when he says that I happened to call at a good time. I've told him twice now to let her know what is happening proactively. "Even if you don't know anything, call to tell her you don't know anything." He says okay, but doesn't do it.

Occasionally she'll call the owner and that usually gets a response fairly quickly...from the Project Manager. It's weird. He generally sounds great, and responsive on the phone, but....well....we are where we are so obviously he's not getting the job done (though he really is better than most of the others we've dealt with).

The relatively major development can't be discussed here yet. I don't really know who all is reading this, so there are some things I have to keep quiet about. But it will eventually come out. No worries. Though this project is nearly complete the entertainment is not over, I promise.

Mistakes

A significant typo in the previous post has been corrected. No change to status otherwise.

I Swear I Am Not Making This Stuff Up

So...

We've pretty much given up on our (second) bathroom tile guy. He either can't or won't get it the way we want it. I'm sure he's extremely frustrated, but so are we. We've been talking to the Project Manager for a while about bringing in a third guy, Angelo. He's been very busy and hasn't been able to get to it yet. Well, last weekend he died. I am not kidding.

Back to the drawing board... The Project Manager is trying to find someone to take over the job and finish it.

Snowed Today

After a couple of weeks of temperatures in the high 40s and 50s we got a surprise snow this morning. Weirdest winter weather I can remember here.

The lake has frozen and thawed half a dozen times since the beginning of December.