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A Material Girl

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  Congratulations on surviving Easter and International Trans day of Visibility falling on the same day! I hope you all fought off what was apparently the 300+ attempt by Joe Biden to turn us all Woke Gay and Cancelled. Truly this will be a sane election year that certainly won't end with a bunch of angry white men, bloated to Michelin Man proportions through hangover sunburns and military vests, with thoughts of manifest destiny via Chik-fil-A and genocide, taking rifle shots at minorities, because their ineffectual, doddering would-be despot, existing solely to absorb conservative self-loathing and billable lawyers hours like some loosely shaped sentient cow pie hate sigil, managed to choke out world salad glossolalia during a non-concession speech.  But enough about the thoughts that come when sitting quietly, without a screen to distract me. We've made great home renovation strides! Allow me to draw your attention to this post back from December 2022. This was the entry wh

We've Been Here the Whole Time

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At the time of our last update in September we had just trudged, head down, through several months of flooding, contractor and funding related delays, window vendor foul ups (and delays), and a lot of labor for little apparent change in The Room. Also Walt had run away, chasing a deer through the woods, eventually to be found later that night with the assistance of a strange forest hermit (let's put a pin in that part though). As a reminder, below is the house floorplan. The black Xs are elements of the house that we're taking down/opening up. The room with the blue door to the right of the double X-ed breezeway is The Room and when we take down the breezeway, the brown door will return to being the front door of the main house. We procured the below solid mahogany door from an annoying 80yo British wood worker named Alan for $300. That will be the new front door eventually, but we're months away from that. *** This is where I mention that about a month after my last post