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Some Eh Things
Sep. 28th, 2024 01:41 pmI signed a contract for my window replacement project late May with a promise of an update in about six weeks. No update came. In fact, no contact came at all and I finally attempted to reach out about three weeks ago. FIVE emails and one more pointed text later, I got a "gosh, I'm sorry - something's going on with personal issues and I just can barely function. Sorry for the unintended disrespect, we'll touch base with you next week for scheduling."
Next week was ... this last week, and no communication yet again. I had such high hopes these folks wouldn't turn out to be typical County Where I Live contractors. I should really have known. I put a deposit down. I was told end of summer for completion of project. I'm about five seconds away from either demanding that back or the windows themselves and then finding someone else to install.
Grumble.
In more personal issues type news, my boss officially announced her retirement for the end of October. One of my colleagues applied for the position and I need anyone out there to please put forth vibes for him to NOT get it. Nice enough guy. Total diva and a nightmare waiting to happen should he ever get into management. I don't want to work under him. Oy vey. I AM interviewing for a different position, but don't anticipate getting it. It's not 100% what I want anyway. We'll see.
Pickle does not have a UTI, right, so if she's peeing she's just being a brat. Roy, though, his bloodwork finally came back and he has mildly elevated kidney numbers. He is entering early stages of kidney disease. He and Johnny both have been very thirsty lately, sucking all the water out of their food first, etc, so I assume she's in the same or similar condition. I am not surprised, but I am sad to think about it. I've ordered a bunch of low phosphorus food for them to eat, and hope they like it. Why the H is that stuff so much more costly than most food - I don't feed super high end, but definitely have focused on quality for years. Also, if many cats get kidney problems as they age, why are we not just always feeding them low phosphorus food? That should be the norm, no? Anyway, here's hoping that they like some of the non-prescription options. The prescription food all, frankly, looks like junk to me.
May as well switch the other two cats to this diet too. They're 9 and 8, so not young either.
Earlier this week, police were dispatched to a grisly scene at an apartment complex about half a mile or so from my house. Walter loves to go sniff around in the courtyard areas - it's not a great place to live, and the people are ... unsophisticated. There's lots of junk and stuff for him to smell, so he loves it. Turns out that a man shot his wife and then himself. Horrible. It's actually the second scenario of that type to happen in my town this year, though the first was more of a suicide pact than a murder/suicide. And of course Walter wanted to linger there a long time this AM. Now it's just even creepier to me, so we'll be putting the kibosh on that from now on.
^A rare moment of closeness, but those ugly ol' windows. Ugh.
Next week was ... this last week, and no communication yet again. I had such high hopes these folks wouldn't turn out to be typical County Where I Live contractors. I should really have known. I put a deposit down. I was told end of summer for completion of project. I'm about five seconds away from either demanding that back or the windows themselves and then finding someone else to install.
Grumble.
In more personal issues type news, my boss officially announced her retirement for the end of October. One of my colleagues applied for the position and I need anyone out there to please put forth vibes for him to NOT get it. Nice enough guy. Total diva and a nightmare waiting to happen should he ever get into management. I don't want to work under him. Oy vey. I AM interviewing for a different position, but don't anticipate getting it. It's not 100% what I want anyway. We'll see.
Pickle does not have a UTI, right, so if she's peeing she's just being a brat. Roy, though, his bloodwork finally came back and he has mildly elevated kidney numbers. He is entering early stages of kidney disease. He and Johnny both have been very thirsty lately, sucking all the water out of their food first, etc, so I assume she's in the same or similar condition. I am not surprised, but I am sad to think about it. I've ordered a bunch of low phosphorus food for them to eat, and hope they like it. Why the H is that stuff so much more costly than most food - I don't feed super high end, but definitely have focused on quality for years. Also, if many cats get kidney problems as they age, why are we not just always feeding them low phosphorus food? That should be the norm, no? Anyway, here's hoping that they like some of the non-prescription options. The prescription food all, frankly, looks like junk to me.
May as well switch the other two cats to this diet too. They're 9 and 8, so not young either.
Earlier this week, police were dispatched to a grisly scene at an apartment complex about half a mile or so from my house. Walter loves to go sniff around in the courtyard areas - it's not a great place to live, and the people are ... unsophisticated. There's lots of junk and stuff for him to smell, so he loves it. Turns out that a man shot his wife and then himself. Horrible. It's actually the second scenario of that type to happen in my town this year, though the first was more of a suicide pact than a murder/suicide. And of course Walter wanted to linger there a long time this AM. Now it's just even creepier to me, so we'll be putting the kibosh on that from now on.
^A rare moment of closeness, but those ugly ol' windows. Ugh.
