–Went to Five Guys for lunch (yum) then Smart & Final for fruit.
–Played with knives; actually revived (centered) the Touch.
–Frozen for dinner.
Month: November 2022 (Page 2 of 3)
–Put some bins in the attic; unpacked all bins in the kitchen. Tried to improve the garage a bit, without much success.
–Watched Bullet Train. Entertaining, but too fast/complex for me.
–Continued unpacking. Set up the two glass-front bookcases by the fireplace.
–Walked to Bel Air for frozen dinners and to deposit the house sale check and a check for $50k written to myself rom Chase, preparatory to dropping Chase to the minimum (still need it for Zelle, maybe wires, etc.).
–Escrow closed this morning around 11. Yay! Picked up a check at American Title.
–Puttered around, put a couple of bird feeders out.
–Went to REI to pick up wall-mount bike holders. Installed later in the afternoon. I’m drained, but they’re not going anywhere. They don’t leave as much room as I’d hoped. This will improve with folding handlebars, but then it turns out that the sawhorse I was going to remount buffer and belt grinder on is too wide at the bottom. Crap! Nice to get the bikes on the wall, but I’ll have to get creative before I can do any polishing.
–Went to Bel Air for frozen dinners, cream, dessert.
–Heard from Mark Solich that the final walk-through was successful.
–Lunch at Panera (+ bagels and croissants).
–Picked up some Jack’s for dinner.
–Replaced four bathroom faucet stems. Utterly trivial. Wish the one I demolished had been so easy. Still have near-zero water pressure in my left sink.
–McDonald’s for lunch; Papa Murphy’s for dinner.
–Unpacked all day. Can’t find my knives that were on racks in the kitchen. Discovered the attic is clean and has a huge amount of storage space–floor and shelves. Could be a godsend, depending on what I can haul up there.
–Jack’s take-out for dinner.
–Went to Pause Coffee on Madison for breakfast–really nice place, with Ettore pastries even.
–The real challenge begins tomorrow.
–Went to Tunnel Hill for bagels and coffee. Hauler came over with a huge loader and two buddies. They tossed (literally) everything in and charged their minimum: $675. Oh well, couldn’t have done it myself.
–Comcast cable guy (another Russian) came over early and set things up. There were four cables under the TV nook: a white one that had been cut and shoved back in, two black ones with coax connectors, and one black one with the connector cut off. The last one turned out to be Comcast. The cable guy crimped a connector onto it, did some magic in our box on the side of the house and the “community” box across the alley and Voila! Internet seems faster than at Tunnel Hill.
–Took a shower and shave.