{"id":681,"date":"2002-02-13T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-13T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:15:57","slug":"construction_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/13\/construction_ti\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fortune has intervened<\/strong> and put me in touch with a new tenant to fill the impending vacancy in the Rumpus Room. We&#8217;ve negotiated some terms and talked about some plans for living in the loft together, and swiftly agreed that it&#8217;s time to turn the place from an open space into a spacious two-bedroom bachelor pad. So in two weeks&#8217; time, I start to relive the aggravation of hard labor, clouds of sheetrock dust, and the constant smell of drying spackle and paint. Good grief. I hope I can remember all I learned that last time I tried a stunt like this. Luckily, the new tenant is something of a handyman, and will be able to play the construction foreman. (Not to mention his kind offers of installing some new electrical outlets and a washer\/dryer. He&#8217;s been spoiled by the conveniences of home ownership.) I guess this means that I&#8217;ll actually have to clean up all the junk that\u2019s been accumulating for the last couple of months and figure out where the hell it&#8217;s all supposed to go now.<\/p>\n<p>Bleah. I don&#8217;t have the surplus time or energy to deal with major renovation, but it will be a good thing. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune has intervened and put me in touch with a new tenant to fill the impending vacancy in the Rumpus Room. We&#8217;ve negotiated some terms and talked about some plans for living in the loft together, and swiftly agreed that it&#8217;s time to turn the place from an open space into a spacious two-bedroom bachelor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/13\/construction_ti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Construction Time Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77510,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/77510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}