I have become a person who has her plumber on speed dial

My electrician and GC too. (FYI, we're using Aladdin, Supercharged, and J Thomas Construction and they're all great. Aladdin and Supercharged are the plumber and electrician that did the work on the This Old House house around the corner from us.)

I realized that we're not actually providing much useful information about the progress of the renovation here - we've really just been amusing ourselves. The short story is:

- We finished the demo on the bathroom, the fourth floor ex-kitchens, and the weird narrow closet on Sunday.

- Today Carlos and Wilson from J Thomas came and framed the reconfigured laundry room and closets in, like, three and a half minutes. Katherine and I were going to do it until we realized how much faster it would be to hire someone who, you know, knew what the hell they were doing.

- Tomorrow and Wednesday, Dave from Aladdin will come and rough in the plumbing in the new bathroom, and plumb the laundry room. RJ and Sean from the fabulous Supercharged will put the electricity in the new laundry room wall.

RJ and Sean are hilarious as well as being really good, careful workers. They speak to each other in a Creole we can't understand at mach 10, and even in another language we can tell they're like an old married couple. We'd been trying to buy them lunch for days, and finally found out that they're very particular about what they eat - they seem to be devoted to an undisclosed Jamaican place - so Katherine gave them a twenty and said for god's sake, let us buy you lunch!

- Friday Carlos and Wilson come back to put the subfloor into the bathroom and do a lot of other stuff I haven't completely organized yet.

Over the weekend K and I will patch and fix and I have no idea what else, and by Monday we should be ready to tile the new bathroom.

That's the news from Lake Wobegone.