Randomness

[tiggymalvern]

We're in Walla Walla this week on an anniversary trip, and we were just wine tasting at Kyle MacLachlan's winery. We were chatting with the winery lady about his career and got to talking about David Lynch's Dune.

Winery Lady: I never read the books.

My SO: I read them all. I always tell people to read the first three then stop. After that, they're all backstory and world-building without much plot.

Winery lady: (looks confused)

Me looking at this casually dressed middle aged woman who knows about wine-making processes in excessively nerdy detail: It's like the difference between reading The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, if that makes any sense to you.

Winery lady: Ah, I see!

Sometimes you can take a pretty good guess about someone you don't know at all.

Comments

[tameiki]

Thank you! If we can make it through these next few weeks, we should be okay. A couple weeks ago we discovered that we've had a slow leak under the sink of our powder room. Long story, but it was only when it leaked downstairs in the second bedroom that we found it. Just got the asbestos test result - no, there was none but it's a state law that everything must be tested. Mold test came back positive, thankfully, it was a low count but we won't know until they get into the walls and subfloor. Joy. Since it's not an immediate, "OMG! I have a leak!" thing, it might not be covered under insurance. We won't know until the adjuster comes out for inspection.

FH and I sharing one bathroom is going to be a true test of our love for each other. *laughs*

[bymyverytoes]

Ugh, bathroom leaks :( My condolences

Spouse and I have never had more than one bathroom, and we've together 33 years.

On the other hand, we hate each other's guts, so there's that :)

[tameiki]

Got a call from the lovely insurance company. This isn't covered since it's not "immediate" but rather, "happened over some time." In any case it's got to be fixed so...the whole thing will be around $10,000 when all's said and done. Hopefully, that's on the higher end and it'll be a little less. We can always hope.

I've been working on emptying out everything in the little half bath (I didn't do the toilet cabinet side before). It's a good time to throw a lot of things out! And...I'm also having to clear out everything on the other side of the bathroom wall that's inside the actual bedroom/office. That's taking a bit longer. *sigh* Right now, I'm so fed up that I'm throwing stuff out that I would normally want to keep. There are also a lot of stuff going to donations like a neck massage machine, several wireless keyboards and mouses, all kinds of charging cords, ear buds still in unopened cases... So much fun! Ugh. :P

If FH and I hadn't had separate bathrooms for the past 27 years, having to share one now wouldn't be a problem. Maybe. But he's taken over that bathroom and there's no room for my stuff.

You and your SO are too cute together, I've never seen a couple so laid back and in tune with each other.

[tiggymalvern]

Ugh, sorry about the expense and the hassle. Mould is a nightmare. As is having to test for asbestos that you already know isn't there because you built the place! Some of the local regulations we've had to deal with in our planning have been ridiculous. We have to have a pest controller come out and lay traps for 4 weeks before we start construction in case there are rats. We've lived here for 20 years and there are no rats. What we do have is a lot of native wildlife like pacific jumping mice and creeping voles that I would very much like not to have eradicated...

Our house has three bathrooms - one is used by us, one is used by our occasional guests, but mostly bathrooms two and three are used for rinsing and drying diving gear!

[tameiki]

I was wondering about that, it didn't sound right that a house your size would only have one bathroom. *laughs* Thanks for the explanation.

Yes, the asbestos thing was ridiculous - to the tune of $335 just for them to come out and $35 a pop for each test, which they had to do three to make sure we didn't have any nonexistent asbestos. We were super careful of the materials that were used but what the hell do we know. Bleh. The good thing (I guess?) is that they were out there already so we only got charged half the $335 of the "yes, we get paid just to show up" fee. Then, $50 for each mold test, of which there were three. Then, once all the repairs are done we get to pay another $335 and $150 for the "we're just checking to make sure there's no more mold" test. There goes a grand right there. FH is having kittens over the prices. XD