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Sep. 21st, 2006 08:03 amWhee... Tired.
Yesterday was mostly insane-ish. Unexpectedly, the guy to build the new elevator for my father showed up. Something that wasn't expected to happen for almost years. And for some reason, nobody told me they ended up rescheduling it to now.
So when i got home, there was a huge hole in the side of the house, tons of demolition being done, the old elevator partially disassembled and blocking my way to the backyard.
Definitively not something i was expecting.
And since they were going to throw everything away except the elevator itself, i quickly started scavenging for interesting parts. I found a few nice things, like magnetic door sensors, some panels with buttons, buzzers to unlock the doors and the whole door unlocking mechanism, door handles and some other junk.
I also found out that the doors they had installed before had only some odd cardboard structure inside them, not any wood. Not surprising that they let the cold in and broke at nothing.
They also made quite a few mistakes in the plans, which i helped point out. One of them was that they had the electric system all wrong, and were about to cut some of the beams holding up the floor above the basement. They didn't know that my father's room used to be my (...grrr, yeah, i used to have one...) garrage, and not a fully finished piece with support columns. They also almost sawed thru the part where all the wires for the heating and 3 out of 4 old electric circuits in the house are. That would have been rather bad, i think.
And they kept thinking that the cable for the TV was a part of the elevator. 3 different guys started pulling on it expecting it to have nothing at the end and almost pulled TVs and other stuff along.
Blah.
And all this kinda prevented me from sleeping at the usual time. Was up until about noon. So unsprisingly, i'm VERY tired now.
So i'll go sleep now.
*yawns and curls up, then falls asleep, hoping they won't make too much noise today*
Yesterday was mostly insane-ish. Unexpectedly, the guy to build the new elevator for my father showed up. Something that wasn't expected to happen for almost years. And for some reason, nobody told me they ended up rescheduling it to now.
So when i got home, there was a huge hole in the side of the house, tons of demolition being done, the old elevator partially disassembled and blocking my way to the backyard.
Definitively not something i was expecting.
And since they were going to throw everything away except the elevator itself, i quickly started scavenging for interesting parts. I found a few nice things, like magnetic door sensors, some panels with buttons, buzzers to unlock the doors and the whole door unlocking mechanism, door handles and some other junk.
I also found out that the doors they had installed before had only some odd cardboard structure inside them, not any wood. Not surprising that they let the cold in and broke at nothing.
They also made quite a few mistakes in the plans, which i helped point out. One of them was that they had the electric system all wrong, and were about to cut some of the beams holding up the floor above the basement. They didn't know that my father's room used to be my (...grrr, yeah, i used to have one...) garrage, and not a fully finished piece with support columns. They also almost sawed thru the part where all the wires for the heating and 3 out of 4 old electric circuits in the house are. That would have been rather bad, i think.
And they kept thinking that the cable for the TV was a part of the elevator. 3 different guys started pulling on it expecting it to have nothing at the end and almost pulled TVs and other stuff along.
Blah.
And all this kinda prevented me from sleeping at the usual time. Was up until about noon. So unsprisingly, i'm VERY tired now.
So i'll go sleep now.
*yawns and curls up, then falls asleep, hoping they won't make too much noise today*
