This has been a great week to work on GANNET. Sunny. Low’s in the high 30sF and highs in the 50s for a few days, now lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s. But I haven’t been working. I have been in the condo waiting for workmen and delivery men. On Monday stonemasons to fit granite around the fireplace. Yesterday men delivering our months ago ordered bed. Today men from a cable company who need access to the attic which in this building comes through our utility room and workmen to replace the baseboards around the fireplace. This has all been worthwhile and today is momentous not only for the inauguration of a new President, but that the long running renovation from Hell is completed. This is Carol’s triumph. There are still more details to be taken care of, but they are add ons. The place is not fully furnished and may not be for quite some time. But the renovation really is over. I can’t yet believe it, but we will go out and buy a bottle of champagne to celebrate this evening.
San Francisco’s Singlehanded Sailing Society asked me to speak to them via zoom in what is called a ‘webinar’. I really should have copyrighted my name. I will talk for maybe twenty or thirty minutes and then take questions. Unlike many of you I am unfamiliar with zoom and don’t know how this will go, but if you wish to view I am told you can. It will begin at 5 PM Eastern time/2200 UTC this Saturday, January 23.
Here is a copy of the link I have been given.
| You are invited to a Zoom webinar. Date Time: Jan 23, 2021 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Webb Chiles, January Guest Speaker To join: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0LrYWr8GTZGgviq31lQ-tA |
In terms of duration, anxiety, frustration, exhilaration . . . There must be many ways to compare the saga of the remodel to, say, a circumnavigation?
ReplyDeleteI’d take a circumnavigation any and every day. There, particularly if you sail alone, it is you, the boat and the sea. A renovation is filled with people and permits. Carol fought the battles and persisted. The credit is all hers. Endurance is essential to both circumnavigations and renovations, at least ours.
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