When you are building a house you need to go visit it often...really often. Oftener then once a week. We stopped by the new house today to check things out. Errors! Oops! Time for a frantic call to the builder. Despite the walk-thru and the checklist that we printed out for him and the diagrams and the photo's, we still have a couple of things that seem to be wrong. The drywall is installed and they "forgot" to move the ceiling vent in the living room as they promised. They also "forgot" to move the wiring for the speakers. Hopefully this won't be a big problem since they haven't started taping or doping the drywall as yet. Wait a minute...it hasn't even been a week since our walk-thru! I can see why the builder has decided on a policy of absolutely no changes with their future developments. The construction crews can't read the drawings and are easily confused when encountering even minor changes to the pattern. Heaven help the person who varies even slightly from a recipe. Unfortunately, I happen to be one of those persons who never can follow a recipe...to the letter. I guess I'm just too creative.

Today's Little Bit of Trivia

The hardest part about inventing the stapler wasn't the device itself, it was getting all those little staples to stick together. It wasn't until 1923 that Thomas Briggs, founder of the Boston Wire Stitcher Company (later shortened to Bostitch), figured out a way to glue the staples together into a long strip that could be loaded into a stapler. Bostitch still makes staplers today.