There is no good side of the bed today
Have you had one of those days where it doesn’t matter what you get done, you don’t feel like you’ve accomplished anything? That’s my day today.
It doesn’t help that I’m annoyed with Plagioclase. He went out and bought a haunch of vacant land and said to me “Here! Cook it!” He’s quite busy doing stuff, so of course as the person who cares about houses I have to take care of building the place, with only seagull input from him and his mother, and a glacially-paced architect1 who can’t be trusted to remember to invoice us for the work he’s done.
Actually, though, it’s not really Plagioclase nor the architect I’m annoyed with. I’m pissed off by The Project From Hell that I’ve been working on for way too long and It Just Won’t Finish. This is the one where all the components came in months after they were expected, and now the Project Manager is MIA, though still ostensibly In Charge.
To top it all off, it’s warm today and I’m stuck in the house, and tomorrow it’s supposed to be frigid again.
Grrrr.
- Every three weeks he says “I made that change you asked for. How is it now?” What I really want to do is sit next to him at his computer and say “Put the sink there. Put the fridge here” and so on until all those little tweaks are done. We could be finished in an afternoon, but nooooo, we have to have a “design review” then a redraw then a “cogitation period.” The housing market will have totally recovered and started booming again before we’re ready to take even the preliminary plans to a builder.↩
