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> Somehow, I was particularly shaken by today being a >>Tuesday<<, 
> although it was raining cats and dogs, instead of that bright 
> bluer-than-blue sky.   So I looked up the first posts from that day - 
> deb bledsoe's was the initial one.  And note Drew Diaz's spot on 
> predictions.  From September 12th to 19th there was a service outage, 
> repaired (do I recall correctly?) by Dan Becker.  The 19th was the day 
> of Pyrate's memorable post, also included.
c,

Due to rain took 3 hours to get to the work site yesterday. Along the 
way considered it may not be the best day to drive into Manhattan. 
Remembered the drive out on that day. Later in the morning achieved near 
total panic simulation when realized that after a month of measuring and 
measuring and all the walls being within 1/4" of perfect (the damned 
screw heads on the steel studs threw us off) that the floor stones (the 
largest at 400 lbs., 1.25" marble slabs at one time salvaged from the 
St. Regis) suddenly were 2.5" short of meeting the walls. It took a few 
hours of feeling very ill before we settled out a plan. Just enough 
spare stone salvaged from a reconfigured footprint to make up the 
difference, we hope. I still have no goddamned clue why the floor fell 
short of the walls. The joke earlier in the project about our leaving 
our stone stretcher in Vermont did not seem quite as funny the second 
time around. We are moving and replicating an existing marble clad 
bathroom and I now suspect that our fatal error was to assume that the 
original bathroom was squared -- the new bathroom certainly is squared. 
One stone is 1/2 inch out of square in 3'... when they laid the first 
bathroom with the salvaged stone they cut it to fit the walls. Spent the 
adventure with son. It was good. At 10 pm got home to find out our home 
insurance is canceled... they no longer insure within 1 mile of the coast.

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