weekend

[cellio]

We had an infusion of gamers Saturday. It was a fun day. We had some people who could come early but couldn't stay, and others who could come late, and some who could come for the whole day, so we did some juggling to make it work out. We ended up playing Settlers of Katan in the afternoon and then switching over to two longer games, with dinner in there somewhere. Dani really wanted to play Republic of Rome (and I didn't -- but we had eight people anyway), so four of them played RoR and the rest of us played McMulty. RoR is a longer game, so our group ended up with a fair bit of socializing before the other group finished and joined us. Long day, but fun. (It's just as well that we bailed on the group brunch the next day, though, even though that would have been fun.)

Sunday evening we had dinner with friends from my synagogue (the same folks whose seder I went to last year when Dani got sick; they've also invited us to other parties). It was a fun evening. Another couple (also from the synagogue) was there too. I worried a bit that Dani would feel left out even though he's met all these people on many occasions, but it wasn't a problem. There was enough of a geek density to work. :-)

I think it may be time to give up on Andromeda. It's been a while since the show was actually good; Sunday night I fell asleep during this week's show and found that this didn't really affect my enjoyment of it. Um, yeah. There was a change in creative control about a year ago (I think) and things went downhill then, but I held on in case it was just transition pains. But now, two of the most interesting characters are gone (for all practical purposes, in the case of Rev Bem -- the character as shown this week is not the one we know), and the stories have been more and more about action at the expense of plot. Yawn.

A few months ago the Contractor Who Rarely Returns promised to find the source of the water damage to the ceiling in the front hall and deal with it. (This damage is almost directly below a spot in the bathroom that is, in turn, damaged from an apparent roof leak, but he thinks that's a coincidence. We have been hypothesizing a bathtub-related plumbing problem, though a plumber we had in a while ago hadn't found anything suspicious.) In both cases, we were probably snookered by the sellers; the CWRR pointed out places where problems had been covered up rather than fixed.

So anyway, the contractor hasn't done anything yet, though some supplies have moved around so we know he's been here. We still have the crack in the ceiling.

Sunday the toilet overflowed (sigh), and we heard the unmistakable sound of running water coming from downstairs. (New experience for us.) Oh joy. The good news is that we didn't lose a chunk of ceiling; the bad news (on reflection) is that the water stopped after several minutes and did not return on subsequent flushes. Why is that bad news? Because plumbing problems are probably easier to fix; it sounds to me like our bathroom floor is suspect (which may, of course, be caused by a plumbing problem too). I was hoping for, say, a cracked supply pipe, or even a broken seal on the toilet, that we could fix and be done with. So I guess it's now time to (1) poke the CWRR and (2) call someone else because we'd like the work to be done sooner rather than later. Not that this is a sure bet, of course; we wouldn't still be depending on the CWRR if contractors in general showed up when they said they would and did the work they said they'd do.

(In case you're wondering, the CWRR replaced the Conractor Who Never Returned, who disappeared off the face of the planet mid-job about half a year after we bought the house. Fortunately, while he owed us work, he had about the right amount of money from us when he vanished, so we eventually decided to call it even.)

Comments

re: Andromeda

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

Dan and I watched this weekend's episode last night. I looked at him and said "Is it just me or did that episode make absolutely no sense?" He ventured his guess that PTB for that show have some big season finale in mind and they're just throwing in fillers for now until they get there...

But yeah, I've been getting that "is this worth recording?" feeling for a while now...

Re: Andromeda

[cellio]

I had two reactions to the episode: "WTF was that?" and "what are you idiots doing to Rev Bem?!". The real Rev Bem (before he left the crew) and Tyr (before he left the crew) were my favorite characters.