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We went to order our kitchen countertops today (butcherblock), and they have to be put in before the backsplash is tiled and before the plumbers and electricians install the sink, dishwasher, and oven (because the backsplash goes behind the hood, which needs both plumbers and electricians). They're supposed to be finished sometime this weekend, but that leaves us several days where there won't be anything the carpenters can do, which, given how hard it sometimes is to get carpenter time, and that the apprentice carpenters go back to school in the fall, is a tragic waste of potential carpenter availability!
We can paint and wallpaper in there before that (except Wax is working and I can't hang the wallpaper alone), but otherwise we have to wait for the counters.
In other news, yesterday I had an appointment that was supposed to be at city hall if the pandemic was over, and over the phone if it was still pandemicky; and given that the pandemic is not over, they've just set up testing points at the Turku airport and are setting one up at the harbor for boats, I concluded that it was a phone appointment. However, since nobody called me as expected, I deduced that in the eyes of the local government at least the pandemic is officially "over", but they thought I would just know that even though the government organization's own website, when I went to try to reschedule, made me click through two announcements about how they're handling things differently right now due to the pandemic crisis. It took me a few hours of battling with the website to find out that I can't reschedule electronically because of having missed the appointment, so I had to text the social workers and ask for help rescheduling. And of course, I "should" be able to schedule it online as long as I have a social security number, but "temporarily" their website can't handle non-EU citizens and when I tried to click 'register' it just gave me an error message where the sole option was clicking on 'OK'.
We can paint and wallpaper in there before that (except Wax is working and I can't hang the wallpaper alone), but otherwise we have to wait for the counters.
In other news, yesterday I had an appointment that was supposed to be at city hall if the pandemic was over, and over the phone if it was still pandemicky; and given that the pandemic is not over, they've just set up testing points at the Turku airport and are setting one up at the harbor for boats, I concluded that it was a phone appointment. However, since nobody called me as expected, I deduced that in the eyes of the local government at least the pandemic is officially "over", but they thought I would just know that even though the government organization's own website, when I went to try to reschedule, made me click through two announcements about how they're handling things differently right now due to the pandemic crisis. It took me a few hours of battling with the website to find out that I can't reschedule electronically because of having missed the appointment, so I had to text the social workers and ask for help rescheduling. And of course, I "should" be able to schedule it online as long as I have a social security number, but "temporarily" their website can't handle non-EU citizens and when I tried to click 'register' it just gave me an error message where the sole option was clicking on 'OK'.
