Heya guys, sorry I aint been around the last couple of days.. been sorting out with the car and helping out with odds and ends to do with the heating system that's being installed.
On the Ex front, I aint seen her since saturday, or heard from her either, but with all that's been going on this last week, it's a good thing I think, my head's pretty clear on things. I'm happy we're going to manage to be friends, though I think now it's going to be more a sort of "we speak to each other, and will drink together" kind of thing, as opposed to practically living in each others pockets or going out of the way to see each other, which I think, ronin, you'll agree is a good thing.
As for the other stuff, it feels pretty damn good to actually be useful again, even if it is just calling the garage to see if parts have arrived and can be fitted (going through tomorrow, early as poss), or helping with cleaning up and/or moving things outta the way for folks.
The heating guy has only just (15 mins ago) left us, with a completely functioning system, which he's worked on since 7:30am til, get this, 11:55pm, just as to not inconvenience us with having no hot water and no form of heating. That guy is an absolute star for what he's done today.. he didn't even break for lunch!
All the others however, clocked off at 5pm, so since then I've been helping him out with the parts he needs, finding tools for him, and generally just being there to give him support and a helping hand when he needed it, and it felt great to be able to just help out. And since he's a decent enough guy to talk to, we got on fairly well and have been chatting a fair bit too.. I've even learned a bit of knowledge about how to get things installed and plumbed in over the last few hours, and can identify just about every fitting that he carries with him, and which sizes and what parts will match.. pretty good going, I think.
Anyways, the last few days have been pretty fun for me, but tomorrow is gonna be a mare, gotta take another 20 mile round-trip to have the center-box of our cars' exhaust fitted, and see if I can blag them into fitting the middle-pipe between the center and back boxes, and get him to fit the new back-box and refit the old tip (preferably with no extra cost). Dunno exactly how long that's gonna take 'em to do, but hopefully it wont be long, as I really hate having to mess about with that old rust-box, and suffice to say, if they wont fit the stuff for no extra cost, my day will be taken up by sorting it all myself, so I'll have to source a trolley-jack and find some old clothes to work in, and then find all the right tools for the job. Bah!
Oh well, we had a nice suprise for the heating guy when he left, just for being the gem that he is, we sent him off home with a litre-bottle of Southern Comfort, as a gift for doing such a good job. He only has to bleed the system, fit the last radiator, and then sort out with a couple of pressure-outflow pipes through to the outside of the house, and his job's done, so he'll likely only be here a couple of hours at best tomorrow.
Still need the electrician to come and show us how to set everything up on the heating controls, and make sure we know how to sort things out if something goes amiss in the system, and then have the guy fit the new fireplace (if it ever arrives) since the once they sent was wrong, or it'd be done tomorrow, now we've gotta wait for delivery of a Mahogany hearth + surround for the fire, as the company that sends them out decided to send us Oak instead, morons.
Any way you look at it, though, the jobs mostly done, thanks to one man and his work ethic of "Never leave a job half-done", and things are hopefully gonna return to normal. Never know, this time next week, I might wind up being his apprentice
Sorry for the lack of contact guys, but yeah, busy is an understatement.
Hope you're all ok, and thanks for your support and your concern, I'll get around to posting more and trying to work through some of the things that have been posted here at some point in the not too distant future, so expect more from the madness of Method0nes' abode!
Have to wait a bit I'm afraid, but I'll use the meantime to shape my body a bit. I have to loose some weight (and God do I hate that!), and work with smaller weights in the gym...