September 3, 2007

• Saturday night I went to Navy Pier with Danel and her friend from work, Tina. Along the way we stopped off at Mario's lemonade stand in Chicago for some good ass strawberry lemonade. Was it strawberry? I really can't remember, I should have written about it by now. After that was Navy Pier where we watched fireworks and I ate a chocolate crumb pretzel from this gourmet pretzel place. It was good shit, chocolate on the inside of the pretzel and then chocolate sprinkled on the outside.

  Last night was a card game at this Ken, who is a co-worker of  Don. Ken also has a brother named Dan who is good friends with Jt. When I arrived Dave was outside smoking and for some reason, he felt the need to open the door and shout "ladies and gentlemen, Mike Consalvo." At the end of the night, I told him he had to give me an exit and he did the same thing. In between, I lost $50 playing and finished in 7th place out of 14 people.

  Today was the baseball game followed by a bbq at my house. I don't feel like going into more detail so that's all you are going to get.

  I have to say, I'm frustrated with the whole garage situation. Toby, who is a friend of a friend, has been contracted to replace the shingles and siding. Well, after tearing off the siding, he told me that the dry wall that is on the garage has so much damage that it needs to be replaced. Because my driveway floods near the garage, he feels that I should tear down the garage and fix my concrete before I put up another garage. Long story short, I went back and forth trying to make up my mind as to what I want to do, but in the end, I am not taking his advice. Instead, I'm going to fix it and attempt to find ways to alleviate the flooding, which he insists won't work. For some reason, probably because I'm not taking his advice, he is starting to become difficult to work with. For starters, he has not been out here to work on the damn thing since Thursday, in fact that is the only day he has worked. I need plywood to replace the dry wall and I called him today to ask him if he was going to work tomorrow. His reply was "what for?" I told him he could tear off the shingles and he told me he did not want to start that until he finishes the siding. Ok, that sounds reasonable, except that tomorrow is the only day this week that he can work, as he will be contracting at McCormick Place the rest of the week. Meanwhile, I can only have this dumpster until Thursday before they start charging me $10 a day to keep it. Also, the siding is off the garage on 3 sides and the sofitt is entirely off the garage, meaning that if it rains, my garage is totally going to be fucked. I've also got the code enforcement officer breathing down my neck, he was just here the other day and my neighbor said he was taking pictures of the garage. I'm starting to regret using Toby, I mean, I want him to finish it, but honestly, I'm thinking about replacing him, even though I haven't paid him anything yet. I'm so fucking stressed right now about this whole situation.

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