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TONY'S ONLINE TIPS
for Thursday, October 20, 2005
This is another short note from me to you. I will be back to full-sized columns on Monday, October 24, but today's installment consists of brief updates.
Although I'm hesitant to be too optimistic when discussing the Casa Isabella remodeling/renovations/repairs, it does look as if we could be finished with our current contractor by the middle of next week. Then we can have additional work done by someone who isn't utterly clueless, i.e., someone who doesn't think we're just awful for forcing him in October to finish a job which was supposed to be finished by the end of July.
As I feared, our current contractor has failed to pay at least one of his subcontractors. Under a really stupid Ohio law, we are ultimately responsible for paying the subcontractor...who we didn't hire in the first place. However, this subcontractor has finished all he was hired to do and will happily work with us to collect his remaining payment from our current contractor. I plan to seek like accommodation with any other subcontractors or suppliers who don't get their full payment. They all did good work and, in the future, we may be hiring them directly.
This project, especially since mid-August or so, has consumed my time like Dagwood on a sandwich. There have been a couple weeks when I've spent 30 hours doing whatever it took to get the project moving and no week that I can recall when I didn't put in at least 15 hours. Getting the contractor to finish up his end of the work and settling the final bill will probably eat up another 30 hours of my life. That's minimum and assuming no lawsuits.
However, when all is said and done, I think I can get a funny and helpful book out of this. With lots of humorous illustrations. And maybe a movie sale.
I think George Clooney would be good as me.
The trip to the dentist I mentioned in Tuesday's column didn't go as swimmingly as I would have liked. I have to take some x-rays to a consultant before I know for certain, but it appears I will be having root canal surgery soon...hopefully before I run out of the Vicodin which my dentist prescribed.
Oddly enough, though I'm generally the poster child for nasty side effects, I've never had any problems with Vicodin. Also oddly enough, the last time I had root canal surgery, I bounced back from it within 24 hours. So I'm not anticipating missing any TOTs as a result of this.
However...
I will be tweaking my online schedule ever so slightly just to balance out the workload a bit.
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Can I get a "wretched excess" from the audience?
Thanks for spending a part of your day with me. I'll be back on Monday with more stuff.
Tony Isabella
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