Updates

Well, it's been a while since I wrote anything of any consequence, so I'm thinking it's time for an update. The problem is, there's not much to update. Our variance process is at basically the same stage as it was after the meeting-- we have talked to an engineer, but at this point we haven't actually hired him as we haven't actually determined what he's going to do for us, other than accompany us to the November ZBA meeting to use his professional engineering authority to squelch our neighbor's whining. He's also going to come to our house on Wednesday to meet with us, someone from the Mecklenburg County water quality dept., the Matthews Town Engineer, and possibly one of the Town Planners to talk about impact and mitigation, and the impossibility of anything we build affecting drainage in our neighbor's yard. We've also invited our neighbor, but I'll be really really surprised if she comes.

We've also been getting some quotes on things like appliances, and looking into financing. Since we don't really have any equity, we need to get a construction loan, which might take some fancy finagling since we're planning to only contract out a small amount of the project and have Jeff do most of it on his own. However, there are options, we're just going to start at what's likely to be the least expensive way and go from there.

Another inconsequential (to anyone but me) update is that Jeff has to go to Chapel Hill for a week for job training. He's going to be away for 5 nights... the most we've ever spent apart since we've been married is 2 nights, and we've only done that twice in 5 years. ::sigh:: (Rose, if you read this, just ignore me :o)

Other than that, I can't really think of anything. Life is just mooching along. Will update if there's any news.