House update: Friday and weekend

My aunt reports:

Today for lunch there were no hooligans in the afternoon; so John and I joined Ken and Carol at Ce Vediamo. They have just come back from Budapest.

John worked on wiring changes on the third floor all day.

Brian the Tile came and put up cement board Jen's bathroom. He wants the crew to put up greenboard on the party wall in Jen's bathroom (who has a party in a bathroom?), and perhaps in Robin's.

Ken and Carol came to see progress and were impressed.

Cheers all, Helen

Sadly, the weekend was not wildly productive. On Saturday my parents and I went in and measured stuff on the third floor. I owe Daddy a copy of those notes so that he can start constructing the shelves in my closet-to-be.

I also have decided that if possible, my closet lights should be sort of tracklighting-esque floodlights mounted on the sloping ceiling and aimed at the closet. I fear this will not be popular with John.

Also, the Rona guy called and the pendant lights we liked for the stairs are in. I think we want 3, although we could get 4 and just change the one at the top if we don't like it.

I called to request an inspection for tomorrow afternoon, but have not heard back from the inspector people yet.

I learned this morning that the Russian for "hooligan" is pronounced very much like "hooligan", only with the H sounding more like the CH in "loch". I'm afraid I can't give you the Cyrillic version, although I was shown it. It starts with an "x", or at least something that looks like an "x".

I think that is all for now.