I had ordered a NAS that was to be delivered on Monday by Fed Ex. But this morning (Saturday), they showed up instead. As someone who ships things at work sometimes, I know Saturday delivery is an extra charge. I expressed my surprise to the Fed Ex lady, and she said Fedex Home Delivery doesn’t deliver on Mondays(!) but does on Saturdays.

I wonder if that is a benefit of living in the boonies – things only get delivered on certain days, but they are days when you are actually home!

Things have been slow on the bathroom front. Partially because being sick threw me all off, and partially because I’m a lazy bum. Last weekend, I put the rest of the wainscoating up on the walls, and painted it. I also cut the Wonderboard™ and set it on the floor so we wouldn’t keep stepping on sticky wood. I also repaired the floor around the drain.

Tonight I mixed up a bucket of thinset and set the Wonderboard™ on the plywood floor and screwed it in. Tomorrow I should get the tile laid, and maybe by Sunday night we’ll have a toilet again. And the door needs to be shaved down, or we’ll be without one and you’ll be able to watch people pee.

On a slightly related note, when I was back in NY awhile back cleaning out my dad’s place, my Uncle David took me over to my grandfather’s place to see if there was anything I wanted to take back with me. While entertaining me with stories behind various tools, he would also say things like ‘Do you have one of these? No? You really should. You’ll need it.’ I politely nodded and agreed, wondering when I would.

The nice wood chisels? Used at least a dozen times.

The extra jig saw? Awfully handy when I wanted one in the shop and one in the bathroom.

But the 1/2″ drill I thought I’d rarely use since I have a whole cabinet of drills? When I had to mix a pail full of thinset and my ‘heavy duty’ Delta drill started to smoke, it was priceless.

(I have, however, yet to find a use for the giant pipe wrench. Yet.)