Last week on Justified’s season four premier there is a small scene in the first few minutes that is there to set up the plot line our intrepid hero will travel. And in it, because its on cable, they tossed in a bit of nudity. The woman is totally starkers, but Timothy Olyphant is wrapped in a towel. Kind of a double standard, huh? I’m betting more than one viewer might have enjoyed the sight of Timmy’s hiney.
When we first picked out the counter tops at Lowe’s, Cabinet Guy told us that if we did buy it from them we would get a free sink. Cool.
Then the Contractor told us that we should shop around for the counter top because we could get something a lot cheaper from a local granite place. Well he was right, it was a lot cheaper, but that was mainly because we were looking at a different grade of granite. If we did buy from the local shop we would have to buy our own sink for $175. That figure is not a lot compared to the stone, but every little bit saved…
This last time at Lowe’s we looked at the lowest priced granite and it was only $2 more a square foot than the local guy and it was sealed with a 15 year warranty, so decided to just get it there. Plus the sink was free.
After about the third time of hearing that the sink was free, I muttered just loud enough to be heard, “It ain’t free, it’s in there somewhere.” Cabinet Guy responded that it was free as long as we picked from one of three standard sink styles.
When we got home I put the Lowe’s quotes inside our little remodeling folder and removed the counter top quote from the local guy. Before tossing it I looked it over and noticed the price break down; the sink was $175 and the sink cut out charge was $100. I looked back at the one from Lowe’s and sure enough the sink was listed at $0, but the sink cut out cost was $280.
Free sink my ass.
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Today the MMC took a last pilgrimage to a museum full of cars that make the Miata look normal sized, the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum before it closes its doors forever in February. We had a recent record turnout of 10 Miatas and a bonus RX-8. We also had near perfect weather.
Met with the cabinet guy tonight where we have finalized the cabinets in style and locations. When we mentioned the new counter top color he told us that that color was not as smooth as the Ubatuba we first selected. Sure enough, when we felt a larger sample of the Iberian Sunset it was a lot more pitted. He suggested Caledonia, a slightly darker color with a little more gray in it. Ok, this is it, we’re done. Great.
No, now everything is too light, let’s darken the cabinets some. So we change their color from Maple Spice to Cherry Spice, that’s the ticket. Well now the cabinet pulls need to go from satin nickel to rubbed bronze to match better. The light gray tile still works with that, right? Yeah, about as well, but I’m still angling for a slightly darker shade of gray.
With all this wrangling around we had now spent more than we did before we walked in. But in actuality, the price bump put us up just enough to get an extra $400 discount, bringing the total to a couple hundred less than when we started.
When we got home and started looking at the price list we noticed that the new rubbed bronze draw pulls were $9.12 a piece!! Man, when we picked out some pulls previously they were like $1.97. With 35 pulls we are spending over $300 on them total. But, because if we took the expensive ones off the list to save that princely sum, it would drop us back below the discount threshold, we would lose the $400 savings. This meant in essence those $9 pulls were really saving us $3 each. Wait, the savings is more like $5 because then we have to spend $2 more to buy handles…
Meet with the contractor this evening and agreed on a price for his services. The thigh will be the cabinets, the calf the counter top and the dishwasher the foot. Tiles=Toes.
After signing the paperwork we met him at Lowe’s and showed him our cabinets and the color we had picked out for the counter top, Ubatuba (dark green.) Because we couldn’t find a nice floor tile that we all agreed on to go with it, we picked out another counter top in the same price range, different color, Iberian Sunset (light brown/white.) Couldn’t find a nice tile to go with it either, but the three of us did agree on the color and the shade, now, just to find it in a 12 x 12 tile for a buck and a half.
We have a BCS Bowl Pool at work. All 35 bowl games were used, starting with Arizona vs. Nevada in the New Mexico Bowl on December 15th and culminating with the Discovery BCS Championship Bowl in Miami pitting Alabama against Notre Dame. We include the point spread as published before the first game and don’t adjust it. And if the spread is an even number, a half point is added to the underdog to eliminate ties. We have 36 people playing and with just tonight’s game left my wife is in the catbird seat. If the Tide rolls she wins having picked 23 of 35 correctly. If the Fighting Irish win or lose by less than 10 points she will be tied for first and can do no worse than getting 2nd place money, if the tie breaker doesn’t go her way.
We have a MMC event this weekend, so in preparation the Emperor got a sponge bath this evening. By the time we get home from work these days it is too dark and too chilly to be getting out a bucket of sudsy water and a hose, so I opted for the soft towel and Meguiar’s Quik Detailer option. He is a small enough car and not too dirty that it didn’t take too long. I also put the top up and washed the windows. Tomorrow or the next day I may go ahead and give him a waxing in the garage as well being sure that I do wheel it outside in the daylight at some point to ensure I get all the dry wax buffed off.
We have a cache over in Augusta that we didn’t find when we first looked for it, so we put it on a watch list. This means that every time someone does or doesn’t find that cache we get an email letting us know what happened. Tonight we got a couple of emails telling us that some folks from Canada had found it. Somehow the mundane log of “Found with so & so. Thanks for the cache.” sounds so much more exciting in French, “Trouvé avec Pascal70 et lolo001. Merci pour la cache.”
The bank called this afternoon, the home equity loan is ready, so we meet one last time with the contractor tomorrow and then on Wednesday it is back to Lowe’s to talk with the cabinet guy to iron out the final details. Looks like this thing is gonna happen.
