How Do You Feel Today? v4

[sgt.null]

Hi Ali.

Buying a new house. We will move at the end of the month.

Son, pregnant daughter in law and 14 year old granddaughter moving in with us.

Two years until retirement.

[Damelon]

Same town, Sarge?

[sgt.null]

Two towns over, 10 minutes from my current unit. But that is by coincidence, not planning.

[MsMary]

Good luck with your move, Sarge.

We just moved into a new house to be close to the kids and grandkids. Well, we're partially moved in. We still need to ship stuff from our old house to here. But we moved stuff from my temporary (since 2019) apartment half a mile a way to here. So we're functioning with a subset of our stuff.

[aliantha]

Best of luck with the move, Sarge -- and Ms. Mary, too.

Those last two years before retirement were the longest decade and a half of my life.

[sgt.null]

Ali - ive moved into the office. My current major worked in different departments at the same time at my first unit. His wife was a building captain there.

My second unit closed. (Ramsey 20 years. Retrieve 11 years) and our trusty camp was taken over by a neighboring unit, Clemens. I was kind of hiding out at the trusty camp for a year when my department
Head in Huntsville told my current major I was there. Babcock, the department head and I worked together at Ramsey for a some ten years. We stayed in touch.

So thus major let's me run the kitchen for the most part. He stays out of my way. I'm happy. Everyone knows I'm running it. I get as much overtime as I want. I'll get some 30 hours ot next week.

I've missed you Ali. I hope you stick around. It's nice to see old friends returning.

[Avatar]

Meh, I'm looking for a place to move to as well, but it's such a mission...my current rent is ridiculously low, there's no way I can move without more than doubling it at least, not to mention animals, new landlord, etc. etc.

On the other hand buying seems a bit like a commitment I don't want to make right now in our current climate of uncertainty.

But the place I'm in now is really headed downhill, issues with the municipality and stuff...so some anxiety around that too.

Bleh.

--A

[Menolly]

Celebrate every day.

[Menolly]

Time to feast and express gratitude.

[aliantha]

It's good to be back, Sarge. I might just stick around this time.

Av - waiting won't make it any easier, y'know. How long have you been at your current place?

[sgt.null]

I've committed to around 30 hours of it next week.

Ugh.

[Avatar]

Av - waiting won't make it any easier, y'know. How long have you been at your current place?

17 years...

--A

[Damelon]

I could see us moving in the next 5 years. To a single level structure so we don’t have to climb so many stairs.

[MsMary]

We're moving from a single level structure to a 3-story townhouse. Go figure.

That's what's available around here with the number of bedrooms and baths we want, and walkable to synagogue.

We didn't want a private house, cause it's more money and more maintenance. In a townhouse, the HOA takes care of some things.

[Damelon]

Annoyed by a problem with the dishwasher. The control panel is dead. No lights to be seen. The fix has been to go down to the breaker box and flip the fuse off for a few seconds. Except last weekend my cure didn’t work. So I called in for repairs. They came the other day, flipped off the breaker for a couple of minutes flipped it back on and ran some diagnostics and upgraded the software in the control panel and it worked fine. Until this morning, where the control panel is again without power. They warned me it might happen, in which case they would have to replace the panel. A more expensive problem.

[Fist and Faith]

Having the same problem with the dryer. I used to have to replace the control panel of our oven. It was a hundred bucks, and would have been a lot more to have someone else do it. It was just disconnecting wires from the old, and connecting them to the new. Now I'm going to look for one for the dryer.

I expect dishwasher to be a bit more involved, though.

[aliantha]

Aging in place, ugh. My condo is all on one floor, but there's a fairly narrow set of stairs up to it. I'm golden as long as I never have to leave the apartment.

The big problem here is that there's a design flaw in the fabulous wall o' solar windows in the living/dining room. The architect and/or the builder didn't install the flashing properly, or even at all -- I'm unclear which it is, and tbh it doesn't matter at this point because it's been 40ish years since the building was built. Anyway, the upshot is that those solar windows are leaking, and no amount of caulking fixes the problem. Other maintenance has also been kinda let go over the years, and so we're facing a humongous bill for fixing the solar windows in all units, plus re-roofing and restucco of the whole place. A couple of the big windows have already been done, and some roofs* have been patched multiple times, but it's still going to be a hella expensive job. You wouldn't think windows would leak much in the desert, but we've had a lot of rain here (relatively speaking) this year and it's been pretty bad. I'm philosophical about it -- I'm okay with moving furniture out of the way and putting out containers to catch the drips until we have the money to get everything fixed (there's a special assessment for the work, naturally), but not everybody is so calm about it.

* Roofs, plural. We have a regular slanted roof on the north side of the building (which has *never* been replaced), but on the south side where the solar windows are, the apartments are tiered, so there are multiple small roofs. Very cool design-wise, complicated to re-roof all at once...

[sgt.null]

I've committed to around 30 hours of it next week.

Ugh.

Turned out to be 40.

We .ove all of it next Saturday.

I've picked up double shifts for 2 weeks
Next month. And then the holiday
Extra shifts.

[aliantha]

Hang in there, Sarge!

[sgt.null]

Thanks. Swamped with moving then
Holidays at work.