GOOD / BAD

The dishwasher is in / apparently it took out the floor on its way out, such that we now need to pour concrete pilings, saw out 6" cardeck and rebuild which is only going to be a few (more) thousand dollars

The rig is up / Windows 10 doesn't support LAG, Netgear LAG implementation doesn't actually work, and Euphonix will happily let multiple rigs talk to your control surfaces but buried in the fine print is the fact that they can't be mixed languages so my Mac/PC setup is dead from the factory

I got paid my retro from The World's Most Awful Gig / But they paid me less than 10 cents on the dollar (seriously - my hourly wage went up $14 and somehow they argue they overpaid me by $67 on a 90-hour paycheck) so they still owe me over $8k and I'm now in negotiations with IATSE Int'l to sue them for retaliation

I de-rednecked the back yard by chipping maybe two cubic yards of brush and fallen branches / But I've still got another cubic yard to go and whatever was in my nose is now in my throat and lungs

We're waiting for one more vendor (the countertops) to submit a bid and then we're ready to break ground on the business / But our contractor's son has pneumonia, his dog died yesterday and the city opened a Permit Hellscape before us because our landlord questioned their "mandatory asbestos inspection fee" on the grounds that, well, there wasn't a lot of asbestos being used in construction when the building was built in 1988

On the plus side, we're credentialed by one of the two big firms already, with the rest in process, and my wife has her first client even though the building itself is no closer than it was six weeks ago.

And while I'm tempted to chip the rest of the bullshit in the back yard today, maybe I should do something relaxing, like try and get my head back in the book I didn't quite finish writing last June.