View From the Bushes

So far no one has volunteered for the guest blogger position. I'm not surprised -- it's pretty thankless and largely unrewarding. Maybe I'll try and talk my wife into blogging, though I'll probably have to change the password after she does... I can only imagine what sorts of edits she would make if she had unrestricted access. I mentioned that after much pain and tribulation we're having the floor installed today. Well, apparently the pain and tribulation isn't over yet.

I forget how much I mentioned about the problems we had ordering a new floor for the kitchen and dining room, but I can hardly imagine that I covered the full horror that was just getting the order in. We had problems ranging from them constantly forgetting which floor we'd ordered, to massive delays missing parts, to a bid that kept getting bigger every time we called. Well, the full horror was yet to be visited on us. After ripping up the carpet the installers told us that our floor was horribly un-level and that laminate floors did not play well with floors that weren't level and it was going to be another $800 to prep the floor.

We investigated other flooring options, but they were all more expensive either in material or installation or bribes paid to 3rd world dictators so we just told them to go ahead and we'd add it to the lengthy inflammatory letter we were already composing. When my wife first called I felt like throwing up, but that only lasted for a minute or so until I switched to complete indifference. I imagine it's similar to the zen techniques the tibetan monks practice to deal with the overwhelming oppession by the chinese governement. I definitely see an analogy.

There was a huge piece of news on Monday which I neglected to mention was Steve Job's announcing that Apple was going to switch to Intel Chips. An interesting decision with lots of repercussions I won't get into.

Still slogging
Ross