All good things

[BoggleOtaku]

I would mainly make sure he felt like the job went as expected or more smoothly and happy with the outcome, especially since sounds like family friend. If some issue came up (like he felt like he underbid it), then address it.

The framers that did our addition were great. I roasted a tritip in the back yard for sandwiches or similar for their crew on a few of the days. They finished a day earlier than they estimated in their bid and roofed and sided my shed to match my house just to help me out.

Another story: first day the framers attaching a 20' glue-lam beam for the family room and 15' for the kichen and then demolished the back wall of the house. But they saved the several curcuits (for kitchen, dining room, family room, bathroom, etc) that had run through the back wall and nailed them up to the ceiling so that they were all still functional. First day the electrician made an appearance we told him we wanted to keep those circuits as long as possible to allow functionality in the house since we were living there through the remodel with temporary kitchen setup in dining room (microwave, fridge, etc.). When he was leaving we found he had taken all of those circuits apart anyway (that's about all he did), and then he told us he was going on vacation for a week. Bad vibes...

[bwt1213]

I was able to pay the electrician's spouse (same kind of company setup we had back when we were young -- husband and wife) $2,000. He did extra. He worked hard. And he said good things about his wife and children while he was working hard. I'll see what else I can do for them, too. This is so much like what my life was like when I was his age. But I had only two children. He has seven! I can't imagine life like that. But I was able to show him Radio Garden and TV Garden (two websites). He really liked Saltillo Mexico for Radio Garden -- it was really good rock music (I liked it a lot) and it was all Spanish! And when he got home, he showed both to his kids and they loved it, too. High praise: they thought it was "cool". I sent an email to his wife telling her how much I appreciated his hard work and professionalism, and told her he'd said really nice things about her, so since he was so exemplary that meant she must be really super. I hope they all have a really nice Christmas.

[dannyb]

All of this talk of electricians and wires caused these lines to run through my head for a few days now:

Can't seem to face up to the facts.
Tenses and nervous, can't relax.
Can't sleep, bed's on fire.
Don't touch me ,I'm a real like wire.

[bwt1213]

You can kill that song for good with either "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, or "Transfusion", by Nervous Norvis.

[BoggleOtaku]

BWT1213, this basically amounts to a desperate plea.

Spotify lifetime streams compare at 675+ million (PK) to 4.5M (HRL) to too low to list (T)
Monthly listeners compare at 10.6M to 112k to 3k.

I was familiar with PK when it came out, but hadn't heard it for years until recently.
I wondered why.

First ever official music video of PK made this year.
This, a 2005 remaster of the song, and recent major covers account for a resurgence.

OK, I'll admit,
It's a desperate plea from me,
as my teenager
sings Psycho Killer incessantly.

[dannyb]

Hey Naboka, How's your hand doing? Any procedures or therapy?

[Naboka]

Got a bunch of tests done. Turns out to be a problem with the anterior interosseous nerve that's a motor nerve serving the thumb and pointer finger. I can't bend the joints in either the thumb or index finger on my right hand.

Also have carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel sydrome, complicated by (not to be too complex) nerves running from my spine around my shoulder and down the arm.

My first orthopedic surgeon handed me off to another who realized it was stuff he couldn't handle either so he handed me off to an orthopedic sports surgeon. I'm very comfortable with him so we'll do the carpal tunnel and anterior interosseous nerve procedures first. Suurgery not scheduled yet. Full recovery will be slow, maybe a year before my fingers get back to normal--if the nerves haven't been too damaged.

The good news is I can go back to the gym now until surgery, and then 8 weeks after surgery. The other surgeons were telling me no. I had been just using our indoor cycle 5 days a week for 15 mile runs at 85% maximum heart rate. Was missing all the upper body stuff. So, now I'll be doing both. At my physcial in August, I told my GP that I feel pretty healthy for my age. He said I was healthy for any age, so now I get to brag about that.

This hand stuff started a month later, but I'm making adjustments and not bothered by it especially.

The fun thing is I now can play lots of 15 seconnd games looking for best words. Well sometimes much longer before time runs out with nothing to show for it, but... Nothinng's perfect.