Construction Progress Pics

Newsletter 2021-01-24

Time is relative. The movements of subatomic particles are measured in nanoseconds, while the events of human history are tracked in days and months and years. Then there’s geological time, where a few million years barely make a blip on the vast expanse of forever. But all of that pales in comparison to the contractor time scale, where time not only stands still, but actively moves backwards. I don’t remember for sure when the delays first started, but I wrote on November 22 that work on our latest home renovation was finally supposed to begin “tomorrow.” That’s never, ever, EVER a word you should use when a contractor is involved. Construction actually began last Friday, a full sixty-one days after the already-pushed-back start date. Why the months of delays? Oh, there’s a story, and this time, it involves more than just the typical contractor shenanigans. The short answer is the project is cursed. The long answer is the project is really, really cursed. To figure out how long a hom…