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| Two Disney Beauties |
I’m hesitant to use that phrase given its
employment by one of our former presidents. I’ll excuse him in his failure
because he was surrounded by Navy personnel at the time. Everyone is back home
from their weekend Florida adventure but the California Contingent had a bad
day of it with a flight delay that didn’t get them back into LA until 2:30 in
the morning. It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to move back to the
east coast.
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| Hey Mickey! |
My wife made it back ahead of schedule
despite getting slightly disoriented and wandering the vast Orlando airport in
search of the JetBlue counter. I abandoned my floor removal project long enough
to dash up to the airport thinking I had twenty minutes to spare when she
called wondering where I was. Her flight arrived nearly a half hour early which
would be a good thing if I was operating on that same time schedule. It was good
to have her back and she regaled me with tales of the continued excellence of
our granddaughter on the trip home.
The cosmos apparently didn’t think
ripping up the entire first floor flooring was challenging enough for me over
the weekend. The power failed at the company on Saturday night which I didn’t
think was a big deal because we have a pair of huge generators that could literally
power half of Worcester. While the generator did come on they don’t appear to
be connected to anything other than the emergency lighting was virtually useless
in running daily operations. I had to make several trips to the building on
Sunday to rectify situations that arose because of the power outage.
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| Saturday Morning |
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| Sunday Night |
This turned out to be something of a
Godsend because I needed the break. Chiseling under each of the kitchen tiles
and prying them up was not a lot of fun. I finally arrived at a technique which
had the least (but still measurable) impact on my back. The Mafioso and his
daughter showed up to see the remains of the laminate flooring stored in the garage
which I’m giving to them for their basement. I went back downstairs to put on
some warmer clothing but by the time I got back upstairs they had loaded up the
entire amount (my back silently thanked them).
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| Condo Progress - People Standing in Ours on Left Side |
By the time I picked up my wife all I
had left to remove was the floor under the refrigerator. She tried to make up
for neglecting her supervisory role in the house by advising me on better
techniques for this remaining section. I pointed out the work I had already accomplished
without her “expert” advice and asked if she didn’t have some unpacking to do. So
the floor is completely removed and the hardwood started showing up this
morning. I’m a little proud of myself for getting this done over a couple days
but the middle aged body is staging its own form of protest right now.
Today’s morale photo injection:
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