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Monday: meetings
Oct. 21st, 2024 03:18 pmLots of meetings today — an electrical meeting, because the electrical has bloated past the service size, so we are now following two paths, one to increase the service and the other to have some load shedding system in place. I would just do load shed, but the electrician seems to think we can probably get the larger service and that that would be good. *shrug* Once one path is a firm yes, we know how to do it and here’s what it will cost, I’m going to take the bird in the hand. Murphy being Murphy, we’ll probably get simultaneous yeses with some kind of weirdness to make the choice difficult.
I also had a budget meeting about the attic space we want finished, and that was fine. It was more money than I was thinking originally, but there has also been significant scope creep, but of a good sort. Both rooms will be fully enclosed, so we are truly going to get five full bedrooms out of this. Neat.
Later today will be book group, and yesterday I started _West with Giraffes_ and today I finished it. Lots of narrative momentum but otherwise kind of an insane book. It reads like a grown up version of _Snow Treasure_ — someone was enchanted by newspaper coverage of a past event and turned it into a novel, and it is a bit moralizing and educational but in a mostly good way.
R. went for an outdoor bike ride, not planning on being back for a bit. It’s a perfect day for it. Tomorrow is in person meetings.
This morning was ADRs, and I did pretty well. I’m leaning fairly heavily on being able to add another person or 2 to a couple dinner reservations, or KC choosing not to participate or BR choosing to go have dinner separately or adding BR as a table of two or something along those lines. I may work with R. later today to have him create 2 person reservations at the same restaurants at the same time, to give us a bit of wiggle room. The lunches are all fine, altho I wasn’t able to get as many people into Space 220 lounge as I had hoped, but I don’t really care because A. and I can go and honestly, I’m selfish like that.
I also had a budget meeting about the attic space we want finished, and that was fine. It was more money than I was thinking originally, but there has also been significant scope creep, but of a good sort. Both rooms will be fully enclosed, so we are truly going to get five full bedrooms out of this. Neat.
Later today will be book group, and yesterday I started _West with Giraffes_ and today I finished it. Lots of narrative momentum but otherwise kind of an insane book. It reads like a grown up version of _Snow Treasure_ — someone was enchanted by newspaper coverage of a past event and turned it into a novel, and it is a bit moralizing and educational but in a mostly good way.
R. went for an outdoor bike ride, not planning on being back for a bit. It’s a perfect day for it. Tomorrow is in person meetings.
This morning was ADRs, and I did pretty well. I’m leaning fairly heavily on being able to add another person or 2 to a couple dinner reservations, or KC choosing not to participate or BR choosing to go have dinner separately or adding BR as a table of two or something along those lines. I may work with R. later today to have him create 2 person reservations at the same restaurants at the same time, to give us a bit of wiggle room. The lunches are all fine, altho I wasn’t able to get as many people into Space 220 lounge as I had hoped, but I don’t really care because A. and I can go and honestly, I’m selfish like that.