Re: Hullo from the "there be dragons here" area of MA
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:08 am
As expected, trying to get what needs doing done while spouse is swept up in the Xmas Postal Season has been less than easy. I didn't check his e-mail enough yesterday because I was doing other things that needed doing, and missed the opportunity to reply "Nope, and I've already explained I don't have any days off let alone week days off right now." to one person we've been awaiting word from to say, "Didn't you get the e-mail about an appointment last week? When is the best day to do that?" The heavy work load is really taking a toll on him, so I have to be extra nice even when I want to strangle him because he forgot to do something I can't do without him.
Spouse is supposed to have today off, but one of the regular carriers has something going on and hasn't worked at all yet this week and may call out today as well. If so, that means it will be a second (third? losing track...) seven day week for him, which is making a lot of things difficult because everyone we're dealing with now except our realtor are M-F 9-5 kind of folks, who don't understand that he doesn't get a day off, no, not even Sunday because that's Amazon deliveries too.
Time will tell if we can manage to eck out some progress today where he has be involved directly, or if he's finally going to have to turn to his PM and say, "Look, I know it's Christmas and we're short handed by two subs as it is, but I have got to take a week day off." His PM has been great about this in the past when we were starting this out, but now the timing is exactly as I feared, and it's slowing all the wrong things down.
One good thing that came out of yesterday, I finally came up with a name for the comic I've been talking about doing..."Historical Bits". Sketched out a new one based on a thread here, in fact. No idea when I'll have time to polish it, but I've already realized that everything that's not about closing the house on time or moving prep is going to wait until at least mid January.![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)
Spouse is supposed to have today off, but one of the regular carriers has something going on and hasn't worked at all yet this week and may call out today as well. If so, that means it will be a second (third? losing track...) seven day week for him, which is making a lot of things difficult because everyone we're dealing with now except our realtor are M-F 9-5 kind of folks, who don't understand that he doesn't get a day off, no, not even Sunday because that's Amazon deliveries too.
![Doh! :doh:](./images/smilies/eusa/doh.gif)
Time will tell if we can manage to eck out some progress today where he has be involved directly, or if he's finally going to have to turn to his PM and say, "Look, I know it's Christmas and we're short handed by two subs as it is, but I have got to take a week day off." His PM has been great about this in the past when we were starting this out, but now the timing is exactly as I feared, and it's slowing all the wrong things down.
![Waiting :confusion-waiting:](./images/smilies/confusion/waiting.gif)
One good thing that came out of yesterday, I finally came up with a name for the comic I've been talking about doing..."Historical Bits". Sketched out a new one based on a thread here, in fact. No idea when I'll have time to polish it, but I've already realized that everything that's not about closing the house on time or moving prep is going to wait until at least mid January.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon/biggrin.gif)