Unorthodoxy
Nov. 10th, 2009 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoOK, so I'm doing something I've never ever done before. I'm writing the end of the book before the middle. Because I know how it's supposed to come out, and I'm having all sorts of blocks at the middle part. Also because I really really dislike Stefan Ulf now and having to write his journal for him is causing brain damage. Really.
Remember the garbage disposal replacement I mentioned last week? The drain started to leak over the weekend, so Gary called to have the installer come back out. Then on Monday the bill came, and had written on it the statement that there was no guarantee against leakage because the drain installation was non-standard and the trap was backward. "Customer refused to allow the drain to be rebuilt." Apparently that's a little more severe than what Gary thought he said, but the result was the same, the drain was not rebuilt.
No word from the appliance store, so this morning he tackled it himself, using his copious collection of spare parts. We managed to get it to stop dripping, though it seemed quite likely to me that vibration from the garbage disposal or dishwasher would eventually loosen it up again. Given the wording on the bill and the fact that the store hadn't called back, we figured they were washing their hands of us.
He went off to a rehearsal. I took Tess out to the pasture at about 2:30 and the dogs started barking while I was back there. When I got back to the barn, I saw that the appliance store truck was in the drive. Sure enough, the installer was back, with the extra parts needed to redo the trap and drain in a more conventional configuration. I didn't want to send him away, even though I know we'll get a second bill for the extra work. So he rerouted the drain pipe in the proper manner, and I'm convinced the problem is settled. We had quite a nice conversation about keeping horses and baking bread, too.
Unfortunately, no writing got done while Gary was clanging about under the sink, nor again this afternoon while Gary's work was undone and replaced. Soooo. Desperate to push the word count, I'm skipping ahead to write an easy part. But that means I won't be posting this new work for a while...
Remember the garbage disposal replacement I mentioned last week? The drain started to leak over the weekend, so Gary called to have the installer come back out. Then on Monday the bill came, and had written on it the statement that there was no guarantee against leakage because the drain installation was non-standard and the trap was backward. "Customer refused to allow the drain to be rebuilt." Apparently that's a little more severe than what Gary thought he said, but the result was the same, the drain was not rebuilt.
No word from the appliance store, so this morning he tackled it himself, using his copious collection of spare parts. We managed to get it to stop dripping, though it seemed quite likely to me that vibration from the garbage disposal or dishwasher would eventually loosen it up again. Given the wording on the bill and the fact that the store hadn't called back, we figured they were washing their hands of us.
He went off to a rehearsal. I took Tess out to the pasture at about 2:30 and the dogs started barking while I was back there. When I got back to the barn, I saw that the appliance store truck was in the drive. Sure enough, the installer was back, with the extra parts needed to redo the trap and drain in a more conventional configuration. I didn't want to send him away, even though I know we'll get a second bill for the extra work. So he rerouted the drain pipe in the proper manner, and I'm convinced the problem is settled. We had quite a nice conversation about keeping horses and baking bread, too.
Unfortunately, no writing got done while Gary was clanging about under the sink, nor again this afternoon while Gary's work was undone and replaced. Soooo. Desperate to push the word count, I'm skipping ahead to write an easy part. But that means I won't be posting this new work for a while...
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Date: 2009-11-11 02:51 am (UTC)On the book, that's a clever idea and it might make the middle come together better. It's not like you have to keep this ending, but it makes your visualization of the whole more concrete.
Also because I really really dislike Stefan Ulf
Becoming immersed?
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Date: 2009-11-11 03:29 am (UTC)Writing this obnoxious character's journal gave me nightmares last night. He has no conscience, and no sense of social responsibility whatsoever. If there were teabags in Chatton, which there are not, he'd be a teabagger's teabagger.
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Date: 2009-11-11 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 11:51 am (UTC)Now
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Date: 2009-11-23 12:41 pm (UTC)It's a good thing Gary doesn't restore cars otherwise you'd have a bit more noise ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 04:03 pm (UTC)We still have a problem, though. The new disposal is already failing, and we never even put anything through it.