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ratcreature) wrote2011-06-09 01:33 pm
ratcreature) wrote2011-06-09 01:33 pm
three good things!
1. My Gmail works again, because it finally occurred to me to try to restart my router. The DNS lookup must have become borked last night for just the Gmail address, and restarting reset it or something. Anyway, working email!
2. My new oven came this morning, which is great, because after four weeks without one I've been really missing it. The process of getting my replacement took a bit, but the new one is better than the old (more heating modes, trays on slide rails, also a timer, and the new stove top has fields that can be regulated large or small to fit pots better) and most importantly it works. Now I just hope it'll be durable too.
On a side note, I had forgotten what the etiquette about tipping delivery/installation people is here, because it's been so long since the last time I had to deal with this. In the end I decided to tip them with five euro each, because they were on time, nice, had to walk up to the fifth floor (sixth as Americans count) on fairly steep, winding stairs, and then had to spend extra time to adjust the hole in the counter top for the stove with a saw a little bit. So it was good service, and I figured better an unexpected tip than being a jerk.
3. My kitchen is really tidy and clean right now, because said oven delivery provided me with sufficient motivation to do all the dishes, to clean all the counters, to clear the kitchen table of all the crap that was piling up on it, and to wash the floor. I already did some when I had to clean for the heating meter guy last week, but not as thoroughly. And having to do all that sucked, but now my whole place looks mostly okay, and I think this is the neatest my kitchen in particular has been in months, so I feel quite accomplished. It wouldn't pass the hypercritical in-laws test (not that I have any, but the archetype I mean), but in comparison to the before state it's great.
2. My new oven came this morning, which is great, because after four weeks without one I've been really missing it. The process of getting my replacement took a bit, but the new one is better than the old (more heating modes, trays on slide rails, also a timer, and the new stove top has fields that can be regulated large or small to fit pots better) and most importantly it works. Now I just hope it'll be durable too.
On a side note, I had forgotten what the etiquette about tipping delivery/installation people is here, because it's been so long since the last time I had to deal with this. In the end I decided to tip them with five euro each, because they were on time, nice, had to walk up to the fifth floor (sixth as Americans count) on fairly steep, winding stairs, and then had to spend extra time to adjust the hole in the counter top for the stove with a saw a little bit. So it was good service, and I figured better an unexpected tip than being a jerk.
3. My kitchen is really tidy and clean right now, because said oven delivery provided me with sufficient motivation to do all the dishes, to clean all the counters, to clear the kitchen table of all the crap that was piling up on it, and to wash the floor. I already did some when I had to clean for the heating meter guy last week, but not as thoroughly. And having to do all that sucked, but now my whole place looks mostly okay, and I think this is the neatest my kitchen in particular has been in months, so I feel quite accomplished. It wouldn't pass the hypercritical in-laws test (not that I have any, but the archetype I mean), but in comparison to the before state it's great.
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