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Weekend Update is not as bleary-eyed
Jun. 18th, 2016 10:27 amI don't know what the heck was blooming in our neighborhood the last few days, but my eyes have been hella twitchy. Not exactly burning, just irritated by something in the air. It also may have been that I was exhausted from a very long work week (not stupidly busy, just consistent enough that I had very little downtime to take a breather). But it's Saturday, the air is clear, and I got to sleep in until around 8am (that's two extra hours for me, woo!), so I'm awake and rested.
I didn't mention it here, but the renovation on the apartment is pretty much finally DONE at this point. Yay! No more clonking, banging, crashing, tearing, hammering and sawing. At this point I believe they're just doing some final minor things like painting touch-up and fixing the intercom system. It looks so much different than previous:
The original facade, picture snagged from Google. Note the faux stone facade and the boring industrial beige color that most of our older neighborhood apartment buildings have:
...and after, taken by me from across the street:
The end result of four months' work: new color, new facade, new garage doors, new front door, new tile in the entryway and lobby, new paint and wallpaper in the entryway, updated pipes, earthquake retrofit, new drywall in the garage (surprisingly very little water damage anywhere!) and new front facing windows! Yeah, we really like the new windows...no longer leaky, double-paned so it's warmer in the apartment, plus a lot easier to open.
So yeah, in other news, I've started over on the Balance of Light edit. Yes, I know...but it's got to be done. I reinstated the Chapter 1 that I'd deleted a few weeks ago, when it became very clear that the opening was worse without it. I drove over to OfficeMax last weekend and picked up a box of printer paper and a three-ring binder and printed the whole thing out; I realized the only way I could tame this beast was to do a galley edit, one where I had a little more control as to what I could delete and how I could shuffle things around as necessary. I'm just a few pages in so far, but already I can tell that this was the right way to go with it. Which means of course that the release is definitely going to be early next year instead, and I may or may not get to hit any new projects right away (depending on how busy I am). I'm keeping the schedule open in that respect.
Other than that, we have not much else planned this weekend...some food shopping later today, and heading down to Union Square to see a play tomorrow, but other than that, everything's groovy.
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
I didn't mention it here, but the renovation on the apartment is pretty much finally DONE at this point. Yay! No more clonking, banging, crashing, tearing, hammering and sawing. At this point I believe they're just doing some final minor things like painting touch-up and fixing the intercom system. It looks so much different than previous:
The original facade, picture snagged from Google. Note the faux stone facade and the boring industrial beige color that most of our older neighborhood apartment buildings have:
...and after, taken by me from across the street:
The end result of four months' work: new color, new facade, new garage doors, new front door, new tile in the entryway and lobby, new paint and wallpaper in the entryway, updated pipes, earthquake retrofit, new drywall in the garage (surprisingly very little water damage anywhere!) and new front facing windows! Yeah, we really like the new windows...no longer leaky, double-paned so it's warmer in the apartment, plus a lot easier to open.
So yeah, in other news, I've started over on the Balance of Light edit. Yes, I know...but it's got to be done. I reinstated the Chapter 1 that I'd deleted a few weeks ago, when it became very clear that the opening was worse without it. I drove over to OfficeMax last weekend and picked up a box of printer paper and a three-ring binder and printed the whole thing out; I realized the only way I could tame this beast was to do a galley edit, one where I had a little more control as to what I could delete and how I could shuffle things around as necessary. I'm just a few pages in so far, but already I can tell that this was the right way to go with it. Which means of course that the release is definitely going to be early next year instead, and I may or may not get to hit any new projects right away (depending on how busy I am). I'm keeping the schedule open in that respect.
Other than that, we have not much else planned this weekend...some food shopping later today, and heading down to Union Square to see a play tomorrow, but other than that, everything's groovy.
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
