Technical Difficulties

I had just organized myself and taken a slew of pictures of the finished apartment during the twenty-four hours prior to packing. I sat down to publish them onto the web only to be told that Apple had changed the way all that worked on my .Mac account and I would have to use a different program. I opened it and it didn't work and before I could say "help line" our internet service went on the fritz.

Several days later, Time Warner came out and replaced our cable modem with a newer, faster one, so our tenant can have uninterrupted faster service. The guy "hadn't seen" one of our type of modems in a while. I explained that we got it in '01 when we moved in and he snickered. It was a snicker, there's no doubt.

So now we are up and running with the internet service and iWeb has been newly installed and I can fulfill my promise to bring you some pictures of the apartment that will be waiting for us when we return to New York City.

I recommend the slide show option.

Blogging will resume after August Second and Third at which point I will be posting from Cleveland and then Ithaca and then Cleveland again on various and sundry topics that land in the tool chest of AN ACTOR REPAIRS.

Tone

Another tantalizing “what the sam hell is that” clue.



Sometimes my tounge can be so firmly planted in my cheek that only I note the fun loving sarcasam I spread with a trowel over life’s events.

Our visitors of yesterday were nothing but gracious and generous in their response to our humble abode. We look forward to Tuesday night when all the major players in the New York family come to call. Until then!!

Trojan Horse

Infiltration was achieved and the apartment was breeched 48 hours before schedule. The enemy (family members, but what of it...)arrived at 15:02 and surveyed the premises. One of the team members was unable to make the later 7/17 opening and pulled rank. I stood against the entry hall wall like a chef in prep mode.

Soon the doors will be open to all sorts of riff-raff (other family members and dear friends) and they will cart in their opinions, wheel barrels full. We're tough, we can take it. I am prepared to go to the mat in defense of, for example, the backsplash tile choice. TWO POINTS! REVERSE! Or execute a pick, asserting the validity of our counter top selection. ONE POINT! TAKE DOWN! All comers welcome!

Tastes of the inevitable reveal.










The gloves are off.

A Slow Reveal

Touch ups are nearly done, shelves installed, and the cork backsplash is ready for assembly. Cleaning and the disappearing of tools is a day and a half away. And more importantly…

THE CAMERA IS BACK!!!

In keeping with the age of information management, I will be leaking a photo here and there until next Wednesday. At that point the NYC family contingent will have made a personal inspection and the cat will be out of the bag. (If you can get our two cats in a bag without loosing a pint of blood and manage to lift the bag off the floor, and carry it 100 yards, I will gift you the apartment). Check back in Wednesday or Thursday and there will be a link to a photo gallery of the finished product. (it’s never really finished).

7 1/2

Eat your heart out Felini. Beat you by a whole digit.

The first appointment that was made by a possible sublet-ee lasted about 7.5 minutes before her father shook my hand. Things were piled this way and that; the floor had only one coat of poly and had been screened to receive the second; the secretary was in the bathroom, the area rug rolled and shoved in the kitchen. And yet, amidst all that chaos, the first year med school student and her parents took seven and a half minutes to decide.

Bye bye 70 Haven, Hello Cleveland.