Day Eighteen

On Day Eighteen, Sue started work. So far so good. It sounds like her first rotation will be the lightest of the three with respect to workload... the second hardest... the third in the middle. She also heard from some "graduating" interns that they have lined up exciting jobs, which is encouraging for her.

Last week we filled out an online form to request that the street light out front of our house be fixed or to have the bulb replaced. We received word from the Providence City government today. What a name this kid has. I love it!

Hello Mr. [Bad Verb],

This is Billy Popwell, the intern at the Office of Neighborhood Services in City Hall. I just wanted to give you the work order number for the request to fix the street light that's out at [redacted] Road. It's: [redacted].

Have a great day,
Billy Popwell

Also we did more work in the basement. We removed the wooden platform beneath the washer/dryer/basin area (seen in the last picture in yesterday's post). Now it looks like this...


...and now there's all *this* to haul away at some point...


...a lot of which was moldy.

One thing we found under the platform are two exposed pieces of metal rebar. If you look closely at the first picture above, you can see them on the left.

It appears some sort of wax has been poured around them. I don't see why we can't cut them back -- flush with the floor. Does someone know better? Any idea why someone might keep those things around?



PS
Happy holiday week! Did you know Obama wears the flag on his lapel upside-down?