Hotels, cough, FedEx

[drscott]

Just saved $300 by rebooking our Millennium Broadway reservation - $100/night off previous sale rate, though this one is nonrefundable. I had heard that it pays to check the week before for more sales, and indeed it did. Though we may spend some of the savings on cab fare to/from Newark, since it looks like we'll have too much luggage to use the express bus option.

The cough subsided yesterday but returned again in the evening, and this morning it's as bad as ever, so I'll check in at the doctor's office (with somebody else) in case there's anything to be done. Still no fever but some odd feelings -- hot and cold, chest fullness, etc. Tuberculosis!

FedEx was supposed to deliver an office chair for David yesterday that they had tried to deliver Saturday, but they never showed. Turns out it hadn't even been put on the truck.

The guys spent 11 working days redoing the flashing around two sides of the roofdeck, hammering up bushels of slate and tearing out stucco wall covering the old flashing, then replacing everything. They finally finished yesterday. We'll see if that fixes the leaks -- about $10,000 worth of work done on a guess, and if that doesn't do it, next stop is tearing out the inside ceilings and insulation to find the real source.

Yes, this is a dull entry. Recycling cardboard, coughing, stopping newspapers and mail, buying new suitcases.... it's a full life.

Comments

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Just remember that we're going to have fun while we're gone. We'll have good food, drink good wine, see the bambini e bambina, mix with relatives and friends, and remember what cold is like.

And then your reward is to spend a week with zzbear whilst I return to ye olde salt mines.

[omero-hassan.livejournal.com]

Time to stop hanging out on the moors in your filmy nightgown waiting for Heathcliff. Or cruising Buena Vista park in skimpy shorts, as the case may be.