So we start another broadcasting week

[bill_schubert]

I can tell it is time for the part time gig to end.  With a little more than three weeks to go I'm ready to move on and dread a little starting each day.  Not nearly as bad as the previous customer service gig.  I was really unhappy with that.  This is more of a general cross section of people and many of them are happy to have help and are fun to talk to.  

The guy coming to look at the window to quote its replacement will be here in half an hour.  I have no idea what it will cost but assume a couple of hundred dollars.  It is accessible only through the attic which means rafter walking and it is double paned, although one that can not be opened.  My guess is $250.  Paid without complaint.  It is not something I could do or not something I could do safely even if I could get the replacement parts.  

Dana got shot number two on Saturday.  And was sick the rest of the day and worse yesterday.  But by evening she was feeling better.  Neither of us would have given a thought to skipping the shot so it was just something to get through.  I'm a couple of  weeks behind her, the 7th and am scheduled to work that day and the next.  If I have the reaction she did I'll be cancelling work.  Still not something I'd even think of changing.  I'm ready to be in a position that a slip up in human contact will not result in being in a hospital or dying.  Small price to pay.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I'm in a unique position to discuss side effects. 43 neighbors had their second shot of the Moderna vaccine on the same day in five minute increments. Six of the 43 had zero to mild side effects ... 3 had stronger side effects that lasted a day ... one person had side effects that lasted three days. Response is all over the place. You may experience no side effects ...

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I was way off on the price. Unfortunately.

Since it is an attic job they have to bring two people so the cost is $390. We have to do it eventually and it will never be any less expensive so I pulled the trigger and they will be coming some time likely next week.

About a five day shift at the gig I've been doing. That is actually the bright side that I'm doing work now that will pay off the window so there is no dip into any kind of savings.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

OMG, everything in the US is so cheap! My quote for reglazing a single largeish pane was over a thousand dollars (hence my retaining my cracked ones). Hopefully that will help your bill sting a little less.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'd have to learn glazering (?). This is a smallish window but is energy saving double paned. It doesn't open so it is pretty simple. BUT hard to get to if you're my age.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

Would it be helpful at all to have some handyman, perhaps this one if you like his work, lay a path of, say, plywood cut into "planks," perhaps quite wide planks by today's standards, secured to the rafters/joists so it's possible to walk from window to window without having to fret yourselves (or the handyman) about possible missteps off the joist and through the ceiling of the room below?
Himself did that here---sort of first thing he got the property---just to be able to reach the attic vents (open in summer, close in winter) without stepping off onto and at least part way through the "back" of the ceiling.

Oh, and you might need or want the path to be wide enough that if you're carrying, say, a heavy tool bag, and either you lose your balance or the bag gets dropped, there's room enough on the "path" to keep you and / or it from going through the ceiling. That phenomenon, viewed from the room below, is called a "Footslip," in the real estate industry. Just thought you might enjoy knowing it has an actual if unofficial name.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I've thought about that but this is kind of a one off and not worth making any changes. And the way they build these houses they run electrical wire through the air rather than running along the inside of rafters and joists. So there is wiring all over preventing a nice, neat path and/or storage by putting down planks. It saves them a few cents which multiplies when they are building hundreds of houses but makes the attic useless as a space. Probably just as well. We'd just collect more stuff.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

Dod, man! You live in Texas, and aren't y'all famous for some rather extreme and often rather violent weather? Isn't it possible, even if the probability isn't high, that an attic window will crack again, whether from hail, unfortunate pop fly balls, flying branches, or Flying Monkeys (I know: different state)?

"And the way they build these houses they run electrical wire through the air rather than running along the inside of rafters and joists. So there is wiring all over preventing a nice, neat path and/or storage by putting down planks."

I've never been in a house of which the builder had been so cavalier about placing wiring. Old knob-and-tube was carefully kept orderly and "discreet."

" It saves them a few cents which multiplies when they are building hundreds of houses but makes the attic useless as a space."

...and encourages the self-storage unit industry.

Well, mine was just a thought.
Keep safe and well, my friend.

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

Where did you work prior to the current gig?

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, I seem to suck at retiring. Every time I do it I end up screwing up and going back to work. But I'm focused this time and determined to make it stick.

I ran a computer service company that was absorbed by a different company a few years ago and I've done a bit here and there since mostly fore this customer service company, Working Solutions. They are really a good company and you can make a decent living with them but I have so little patience with some people and it is all the time on the phone. Maybe half of the calls are really good, nice appreciative people. I try to make them last.