Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Okay, on to the next bit of my to-do list ... it looks like the roof is done. Having noticed a little while ago that the guy working (amazingly quietly) on the third-floor roof had started dropping buckets and brushes onto the second floor, just now I went to see how much progress he was making on the parts I could see. It looks like he's finished.

They'd said they were going to apply an aluminized topcoat. For some reason I had in mind the kind of grey that I've seen and envied on many roofs around me. Uh, nope. This is Shiny and Silver, and while it's obviously a metallic paint and not a sheet of metal, it is nonetheless Very Shiny and Very Silver. Not the grey pebbly look I was expecting. I'm gonna need curtains upstairs fer shure now, 'cause it throws a whole lotta light at those windows.

After Pennsic I'll let y'all know whether I can feel a difference in how hot the office gets. With that much shiny, I'm expecting it to be noticeably cooler. Hope I'm right.

Now to see whether I can keep my head together long enough to do everything rlse sortakinda effeciently. Probably not.

And if you've put the "are you reading me?" thing in your journal lately ... well maybe right before Worldcon and Pennsic wasn't the best timing, eh? I'm surely not the only one who'll miss a bunch of those in journals I ordinarily do read, 'cause right now I'm busy and then I'll be away from LJ long enough for stuff showing up now to have slipped past the skip-limit when I read back as far as I can after I get home.