Bathroom and Kitchen Disaster! (And Still Not 90)

Our trip to Cancun went well, and we had a great time.  Like most all-inclusive places, the food was generally mediocre, but the resort was clean and well-maintained, and the staff was excellent, particularly the poolside service staff.  

Things took a turn for the worse when we got home, however.  We had our house inspection on Thursday afternoon, and the inspector started filling the jacuzzi tub in our master bathroom, which we have never used in the 20 years we've owned the house. The tub immediately began leaking into our kitchen, ruining about half of our kitchen ceiling.

The next day, we had a meeting with our HOA, which is required before selling, and we were told they want us to completely replace our concrete driveway before the sale because it has cracks in various places.  The total cost will be about $25,000.

Our initial buyer backed out of the transaction after all of this.  Our back-up buyers are fine with the status and steps we're discussing, so the house is still under contract.

We finally got a plumber out this morning and found out that the tub was apparently never installed correctly, so it would never have worked / always have leaked.  We're going back to our new buyers now with an offer to replace it with a soaking tub. If they have their heart set on a jacuzzi tub, we'll provide them with a credit so they can buy a new one and have it installed themselves.  We expect the drywall repair to be completed by the end of this week, at which point the new buyers can have their inspector come out.

On the World of Warcraft front, between vacation and this nonsense, I'm still not at max level.  I just finished Zul'Aman, which I enjoyed a lot.  One of the better zones in a long time from my perspective.  Now I'm babysitting Arator as he runs around doing paladin things.  As an undead warlock, I apparently provide a lot of comfort to him.  Go figure.

I'm at level 87 now.  The scaling so far has been slow; it took me 2 hours and 15 minutes to go from 86 to 87, but we'll see how it all comes out in the end.

That's the update for now.  

Cheers,

Joar

Picture Day!

In preparation for listing our house for sale, we had our real estate agent and her photographer come in to take pictures and shoot video of the house.  The process of getting ready for this photo shoot was nothing short of exhausting.

Of course, we had yet another long swim meet this weekend - this time the high school club championships.  This was a prelim finals meet over 3 1/2 days that took up the majority of the time before picture day.  Probably terrible planning on our part in hindsight, but too late to do anything about it now.

Every counter had to be cleared and every item stashed away or hidden.  We're not messy, but we have a lot of clutter everywhere.  We thought we had everything planned out well with a bin system for each room, but that quickly turned out to be rubbish when we figured out there was far too much stuff in most of these rooms to fit in the bins.

So Sunday evening ended up late, followed by an early Monday morning, and we still managed to pull it all off on time.

The house goes on the market on Friday, the same day we leave for spring break, and hopefully it will be sold and done by the time we get back.

I have had a little bit of play time now as well.  I finished Eversong and have progressed to Zul'Aman, though I'm still very early in that zone.  I'm at level 84 now.  Demonology Warlock seems to play pretty well, and I'm enjoying the story at this point.  I've done one delve so far, and it was decent.  It was the one you have to do as part of the story anyway.

I've not really made any progress at all on professions other than disenchanting a few things, but that's no big deal at this point.  Curious to see what the ZA zone holds.

That's it for now.

Joar

It May Be A Lengthy Break

I haven't had a chance to play much of Midnight yet.  Joar has barely made it into Eversong Woods and has only just dinged 81.  A lot is going on in real life right now, so I may not get much play time at all until April.  

First off, the good news.  We had the State Championship swim meet this past weekend.  My son, Jake, the youngest Joarling, won both his events:  the 50 Free and the 100 Breast.  He set new Meet, State, and Pool records in the 50 Free and a new Meet record in the 100 Breast.  Both his relays also won, with the 200 Medley relay setting new State and Meet records and the 200 Free Relay setting State, Meet, and Pool records.  His team won the overall State Championship, and Jake was selected as the male swimmer of the meet.  It was a pretty exciting weekend, and a great end to his high school swim career.

The next couple of weeks are all extremely busy.  With Jake heading off to Arizona State to swim in college, we have no actual connection to our current home in Columbus, Ohio - I was moved there for work - so we're going to move to Arizona to be a little bit closer so we can watch his meets that are on campus.  We're having pictures taken for the realtor next Monday, and then the house will be listed on Friday, March 13th.  We are also, as fate would have it, leaving for a spring break trip with Jake and several of his high school friends that same day.   We don't get back until the early morning hours of Thursday, March 19th.  With any luck, the house will be sold by then, but that will start a countdown to finish packing and moving into temporary housing until Jake graduates, and we're ready to make the move to Arizona in mid-June.  

Our older son also graduates from college in early May and will then move into an apartment in Boston shortly after.  

On second thought, it may be July before I get much play time!

So it's going to be a slow process getting Joar leveled up to max in Midnight.  

The updates may be more personal than gaming for a while, so hopefully that doesn't offend anyone.  What I've seen of Midnight so far, I've really enjoyed.  It's nice to be back in Silvermoon and Eversong Woods, although it's definitely not the Silvermoon I remember!  A lot of nice little flavor side quests that I've been enjoying so far.  

That is the update for now.

Cheers,

Joar