End of April/beginning of May rewind...
After the torrid posting of April, things have cooled off here... I've been doing various things and stuff. What does that mean? Well, I haven't played golf in a while because I cut open my palm a couple weeks ago (actually the day before the I was scheduled to play). That's what I get for doing the dishes :(. Clodagh's back from Ireland, and it sounds like it was a very good trip. There's even some progress that was made on wedding preperations! While she was gone, it did take a bit of getting used her not being here, and suprisingly again to having her here after she returned - 10-11 days is a lot longer than it sounds... Strange.
I'm still partially on my quest to acquire a lake-worthy vessel but am being harried by the lack of a place to put said boat when not in use. Moorage, it turns out, is QUITE expensive. Likely, this one will wait for another year or two. In the meanwhile, there's a place that we've rented a boat once before (http://www.theelectricboatco.com/) that likely we'll do a time or two again this summer. A nice way to get on the water occasionally without having to feel obligated to do so every free moment of your life.
Other than that, I've had another birthday - celebrated it by taking the day off from work (I do that every year). It's really nice to be able to not work on your birthday :) Didn't do much on my birthday itself (the weather was a bit crappy), but on Sunday we went down to the Boeing Museam of Flight - I'll put up the pictures and more on that later this month.
Lastly, the kitchen remodel. I'll be posting pictures as this progresses [Edit: pictures so far are here]. The cabinets have now arrived and after a bit of an adventure are even inside the condo! Apparently Lowe's hadn't informed the installation people of the time the cabinets would arrive so there's a slight delay before they actually get installed - but as of Monday (May 16) we should resume progress. After that it's just a matter of getting the countertops measured, fabricated, and installed. Why do I have a feeling that some of the things aren't going to fit quite right and there's going to be more delay? This initial delay is actually a bit OK since UPS has apparently lost one of our sinks - we had two (a bar and regular kitchen sink) on order that should have been in last week. Instead I got a call saying that one is lost and there's little hope that UPS will actually find it. How does a company as technologically advanced lose track of packages? It's not like someone stole it and is giving a 'fell off the truck' discount to a friend - it's a bloody sink, not a computer or mink coat or something!