Still settling in
Other than out of necessity bringing the fall clothes up from the basement a couple of weeks ago, I’ve kind of stalled out on the unpacking. Still have a few boxes in the garage to finish dealing with, and all the stuff in the basement to organize. And I’m starting to get a little restless about hanging up some pictures and stuff. I’ll have to figure out what items I’ve more or less identified placement for. I guess after having lived in a rather barren house since listing in April, I’m ready to have things look a little more cozy again.
Had a few more things done on the house by the contractor who lives up the street. They finished up this morning installing the cell phone signal booster gizmo we got. So far it seems like it’s helping. But the biggest thing we had done was putting a railing around our front porch with a gate. It looks cute, and will even more so when the wood has “aged” long enough to be painted. Now the Agent and The Dog and I can go out and sit on our church pew and I don’t have to worry about anybody dashing off!
Mr. Tldz has been working to get his team at work on track to go back to their shift coverage. The whole crew has been on first shift with on-call coverage since the beginning of October with the goal of getting all the policies and procedures in place that this new group needs. (That was only supposed to be a one-month arrangement.) It’s been tough for him because he’s not officially the team lead, but he’s had to try to function as a shadow team lead so stuff will actually get done. The boss seems to be recognizing him as something of a co-team lead now. Anyway, the date is set to go back to shift schedule on November 23, which will leave just Mr. Tldz and the team lead on first shift; and Mr. Tldz should be able to start to work from home pretty regularly then. We’re looking forward to that. He has a nice, private office setup in the new house, so it’ll be good to get to use it!