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A.’s first scheduled class was part of her study skills pack, and at 11:30 which would have really messed up my ability to do the meetings today. So I emailed the school and said we’d bring her in at 12:30 for lunch, and she’d have homework cafe and study skills before her one class so that’d be fine. And it is fine.
So she got to sleep in. I got a 9ish walk with Marisha. I got to do my meeting while NOT driving, and I got to bring up all the stuff I wanted to (the shower width in my nieces’ bathroom, and it sounds like that’s going to turn out fine; asked for the draft millwork for the eat-in kitchen at the bar and anything else they have; asked for the drone footage since the first week of July). Tadelakt / waterproof plaster is entirely out, so we talked a bit about my sister’s bathroom shower, and how to deal with the weird shape. I asked N. if he could come up with a non-curved solution but he wasn’t sure what would be allowed. J. already had the minimum degree angle the solid surface folks could do, so it looks like N. will be willing and able to move forward on that which is huge.
The solar / battery / generator package is moving forward. The window and door (other than 1 and 10) is order is _finally_ about to be placed. We’re probably going to have to apply for a variance for the board of health for the pool drain to dry well or swale (remote chance they’ll just change their minds on interpretation), which, honestly, not super surprised.
Weirdly, D. is now starting the meeting reviewing J.’s design guide table, instead of his 3 week lookahead. I, obviously, am not complaining. The 3 week lookahead is crucial to the build team, but owner involvement on that is limited to non-existent and at this point, I trust these people more than I trust myself. But the design guide table is what I was begging for so I would know when decisions needed to be made by, because no one was telling me, no one was giving me options, no one was soliciting my opinion until the architect had already put some full proposal together which I often did not like and they didn’t want to change because it would mean redoing work. Obviously, super infuriating! I should get input at some point (highly reminiscent of JB from Spry, actually, not that I think about it, altho even worse. There, we were peers. Here, I’m the fucking owner paying all the bills for this circus.). I kinda love that the design guide that it took a while to pry out of the build team is now the primary tool for running the OAC meeting. Hilarious. This is what happens if you hire a design-build person, they design something too big for them to build, and then you hire a builder. It’s just all weird and bass-ackwards.
I took A. in to school, and she was five minutes “late” for lunch. Ha. Then I went over to Mack, because I realized over the weekend that Mack had Hafele displays and might have Le Mans and/or Magic Corner to look at and open and close. They had both! And a bunch of other cool stuff, too. I bought 3 Emtek leversets from them and picked them up last Friday (they are great), so they are even friendlier now. And they were pretty friendly to begin with!
When I was in the driveway with A., I saw a massive stack of boxes on the front stoop, so I parked, got out, opened the front door and started shoving them in. T. walked away from his virtual piano lesson to help out. I think 2 were mine, 1 was R.’s and the rest were T.’s. I ordered a Baggalini mini bag and, as expected, the strap is too short, but I have Options when it comes to straps, so I will figure that out. It is otherwise a better shape and volume than the Vera Bradley or the The Sak minis that I have been using. I also ordered one of those plastic dispenser with cup things that you can put cereal or rice or pet food or whatever in. This particular one is aimed at rice dispensing, and I think the effective capacity is around 15 pounds, which is fine, because a lot of the bags I get from Severson are 15 pounds. Anyway. I put a bag of wheat in, it works, it’s great and it’s too tall for any of the pantry shelves and our counter is already wedged. So I got a plastic bin from the garage, cleaned it, put an unopened bag of Einkorn in it, put the lid on, set that on the floor of the pantry (which is where all these bags were living anyway) and put the dispenser on top of that. If no one is crazy, it should be fine. If people yeet stuff into there, there will be hell to pay, because if you push the front button, wheat will pour out (hopefully into the cup).
I ordered the minibag, because my mini is driving me slightly nuts in terms of what I can put in there with the phone, and what happens if I have a popsocket on the phone. I ordered the dispenser because I am engaged in pantry planning, and I figured now is a good time to nail down how I want to store grain. And the answer is NOT bags, and I kinda don’t love the idea of really deep bins and scoops. I’ll try this for a bit, and if it’s good, 4 copies should get it mostly done (hard, soft, einkorn and rice, is what I’m thinking, but popcorn could be in one, too).
So she got to sleep in. I got a 9ish walk with Marisha. I got to do my meeting while NOT driving, and I got to bring up all the stuff I wanted to (the shower width in my nieces’ bathroom, and it sounds like that’s going to turn out fine; asked for the draft millwork for the eat-in kitchen at the bar and anything else they have; asked for the drone footage since the first week of July). Tadelakt / waterproof plaster is entirely out, so we talked a bit about my sister’s bathroom shower, and how to deal with the weird shape. I asked N. if he could come up with a non-curved solution but he wasn’t sure what would be allowed. J. already had the minimum degree angle the solid surface folks could do, so it looks like N. will be willing and able to move forward on that which is huge.
The solar / battery / generator package is moving forward. The window and door (other than 1 and 10) is order is _finally_ about to be placed. We’re probably going to have to apply for a variance for the board of health for the pool drain to dry well or swale (remote chance they’ll just change their minds on interpretation), which, honestly, not super surprised.
Weirdly, D. is now starting the meeting reviewing J.’s design guide table, instead of his 3 week lookahead. I, obviously, am not complaining. The 3 week lookahead is crucial to the build team, but owner involvement on that is limited to non-existent and at this point, I trust these people more than I trust myself. But the design guide table is what I was begging for so I would know when decisions needed to be made by, because no one was telling me, no one was giving me options, no one was soliciting my opinion until the architect had already put some full proposal together which I often did not like and they didn’t want to change because it would mean redoing work. Obviously, super infuriating! I should get input at some point (highly reminiscent of JB from Spry, actually, not that I think about it, altho even worse. There, we were peers. Here, I’m the fucking owner paying all the bills for this circus.). I kinda love that the design guide that it took a while to pry out of the build team is now the primary tool for running the OAC meeting. Hilarious. This is what happens if you hire a design-build person, they design something too big for them to build, and then you hire a builder. It’s just all weird and bass-ackwards.
I took A. in to school, and she was five minutes “late” for lunch. Ha. Then I went over to Mack, because I realized over the weekend that Mack had Hafele displays and might have Le Mans and/or Magic Corner to look at and open and close. They had both! And a bunch of other cool stuff, too. I bought 3 Emtek leversets from them and picked them up last Friday (they are great), so they are even friendlier now. And they were pretty friendly to begin with!
When I was in the driveway with A., I saw a massive stack of boxes on the front stoop, so I parked, got out, opened the front door and started shoving them in. T. walked away from his virtual piano lesson to help out. I think 2 were mine, 1 was R.’s and the rest were T.’s. I ordered a Baggalini mini bag and, as expected, the strap is too short, but I have Options when it comes to straps, so I will figure that out. It is otherwise a better shape and volume than the Vera Bradley or the The Sak minis that I have been using. I also ordered one of those plastic dispenser with cup things that you can put cereal or rice or pet food or whatever in. This particular one is aimed at rice dispensing, and I think the effective capacity is around 15 pounds, which is fine, because a lot of the bags I get from Severson are 15 pounds. Anyway. I put a bag of wheat in, it works, it’s great and it’s too tall for any of the pantry shelves and our counter is already wedged. So I got a plastic bin from the garage, cleaned it, put an unopened bag of Einkorn in it, put the lid on, set that on the floor of the pantry (which is where all these bags were living anyway) and put the dispenser on top of that. If no one is crazy, it should be fine. If people yeet stuff into there, there will be hell to pay, because if you push the front button, wheat will pour out (hopefully into the cup).
I ordered the minibag, because my mini is driving me slightly nuts in terms of what I can put in there with the phone, and what happens if I have a popsocket on the phone. I ordered the dispenser because I am engaged in pantry planning, and I figured now is a good time to nail down how I want to store grain. And the answer is NOT bags, and I kinda don’t love the idea of really deep bins and scoops. I’ll try this for a bit, and if it’s good, 4 copies should get it mostly done (hard, soft, einkorn and rice, is what I’m thinking, but popcorn could be in one, too).