Hectic morning

Well, we are done with the contractor. Hallelujah! Of course there were overages, still. More door hardware, over by $759.  We had received a bid on all that from the building supply company, so I'm going to have to dig down more and see what happened there. I'm sure it was some stuff that the contractor put into that "bucket" line item on a previous draw. And the staircase railing - he budgeted $2000 total for materials and labor, but it came to $2965. He's so frustrating to try and figure out with why it was over. Well, I know why - he just threw numbers in the bid, that weren't actually figured out to begin with! He did take off a bunch of all the concrete work just done......because that was all supposed to be done in the shop construction loan money and he used it for all his other overages on the shop. So, we were happy with that and weren't expecting it, so we didn't fuss about the extra hardware and staircase costs. He more than made up for that in the concrete charge adjustment.

It is a HUGE relief to at least be done with dealing with him - not that we hardly ever even saw him or heard from him anyway, but still. It felt like a huge weight lifted off our shoulders when he left. He says he'll be back in winter/spring to fix a couple of things related to the concrete.....but he won't, LOL. DH will end up doing it himself, which is fine. We did the "paperwork" with him in the shop - because my computer and scanner is still there. Then he said he wanted a tour of the house. Ya, you should take a look at what "you" built, LOL. I cannot imagine how any of this would have gotten done right, if we hadn't been here 24/7, here to answer all the zillion sub questions. They certainly didn't have a contractor to ask or have on site.

This morning was hectic. I had to get up a little earlier to make sure I was all ready in case the phone company guy showed up right at 8 (they said between 8 and 9). He got here at 8:45. Took him maybe a half hour or 45 minutes. He hooked up the wiring from the house to their box outside the shop. Then brought the modem into the house and hooked it up. All good now. Then I spent an hour or two getting my computer and peripherals all moved into my office and hooked up.

When I went to turn my computer on I got an error message that Windows could not start and it was running a "fix". I have no idea what could have caused that, but it finally fixed and came on........except Firefox was missing. I re-installed Firefox, but all my saved websites, passwords, etc. were gone. I thought I had signed up for Firefox sync years ago, but every email address I tried didn't work. UGH!!! I wanted to cry. Then I googled to see if the old profile was saved anywhere on my computer and it was. There was a new profile folder and the old one. But the Firefox instructions were crappy on how to restore it. I basically figured it out on my own. I wrote down the name of the new profile folder. Then deleted it. Then renamed my old profile with the new profile name. Opened Firefox back up and it all came back up. THANK GOD! Now I'm going to sign up again for sync and write the info down this time.

I ordered a wall mount for our tv, that should be here tomorrow and we can hang it above our fireplace. I think DH will put our smaller 32" tv in his den, but I will need to get another streaming device for it.  And right now he doesn't have anything to set the tv on anyway. Basically, I just need to figure out the best/cheapest way to stream FoxNews to it and he'll be good to go, LOL. He'd just have that running all day, haha. If I can get xfinity (my mom's account) on the Firestick somehow, then I don't need to subscribe to any service

DH is happy to be getting shop space now. If we didn't have all the extra wood (from our trees cut down and extra beams from construction) stored in our garage, DH could move his pick up and the older car into the garage and really give himself shop space. But, we have the wood inside, because it needed to dry out more and acclimate, so that we can use some of it for our bar countertop.

It's so nice to have internet back for my ipad and phone. The data was really getting sucked up the past week.

Ahhhh.....it's so nice and quiet and private up here in my office. And it's so big!