What a mess.

Long time readers of this might have recalled the tenants from hell who plagued my parent's life for the past couple of years. We got them evicted, and they left the house a huge mess, and lots of vandalism, holes kicked into walls, grafitti, ruined carpets and damaged floors.

So, as our various schedules permit, we have been working on fixing the house back up these past couple of months. Mostly we were still finding and removing more trash in forgotten closets, and getting estimates from contractors on how much it would cost to repair things, and trying to find buyers for the property.

So sometime between monday and thursday, a pipe froze and burst up on the second floor. Dad went out thursday and found the damage. I thought we had shut the water off already, but somehow this got missed. So, dad shut the water off thursday and saturday we went out to assess the damage and start cleaning up. basically, everything on the right side of the house got soaking wet. Carpeting destroyed. The plaster ceilings have fallen off, wallboards soft and mushy and falling off. There was a floor drain in the basement, and a drive in garage, so the water went down the drain or flowed out under the garage door.

Waiting now for the insurance folks to come out and look at it. *sighs*

Boskone in a couple weeks

Once again it is time for Boskone. I'll be working in the con suite as usual this year, but in order to save money, I'm gonna be commuting into the con each day.

Since I have a life membership, and earned a membership for volunteering last year, I have a membership that I can gift away to someone deserving. There are annoying restrictions on who might get it, send me a message if interested.

www.boskone.org February 17-19th at the westin waterfront hotel in boston.

Furfright in 2012

I was shocked and amazed to find out last night that the furfright hotel had opened up reservations back in december, and it had sold out the entire hotel by christmas. I wasn't expecting to see hotel bookings open up until march or april. Whoops on me. So I've made a reservation in the courtyard by marriott down the street. and so much for my plans to hold a party at the con this year. *sighs*

Unless I can find someone who already has a room and wants a roommate and is willing to help host a party. Yah, I don't think so either.

www.furfright.org halloween themed furry con in CT.