state of the journal

I'm a little disappointed to have missed my 3000th post. No big deal I guess. It's not like I can say I've written 3000 interesting and important journal entries.

Seems like I haven't been posting a whole lot lately. Last month had 42 more-or-less public posts (as opposed to private messages for Cyn or just places where I could keep info for future reference). April saw only 32 posts from me.

Most of them seemed to be of at least a little substance. A couple of memes, a couple of song lyrics, a couple of links. Most often, I list what my day was like.

I'm still here, though. Even if I don't post, I'm still reading just about everything. Or skimming. I really don't spend as much time reading as I'd like. When I read my friends page, I start at the newest entry and go back until I hit the last entry that I saw before. If I have time, I go farther back, but often I'm at work and need to be getting back to it. I usually go back online after ten o'clock and read until around midnight. Sometimes I have other things to do besides LJ, and I rush through it. But I try.

There are a few of you who list my journal, whom I don't list back. I get around to your journals every now and then, and I don't always comment when I do. I don't always comment to the people whose journals I read every day, either. I'm sure they've noticed that.

Anyway, I'm still here. Same as always.

remodeling... or not

We've had the worst time getting Home Depot to put in our countertop. We sat down and ordered it on May 8th. We still don't have the quote. It was over two weeks before they even came to measure, and now it's going on two weeks since then, while they said they'd call in a week to ten days.

Now things are going better with the flooring - at least on Home Depot's part. We ordered it last weekend, and they came to measure on Tuesday. Then they told us they couldn't do laminate flooring because of a hump in the floor. That was disappointing because that sort of thing is really appealing to homebuyers these days. So we went back today to sign up for vinyl. Now it's going to be at least four more weeks (from Tuesday) before they install, probably more. Four weeks from now is the Fourth of July weekend, so I imagine it will definitely be later.

We were originally as of early March, we were planning on having this all done by May first. Now it will be the middle of July. wtf?