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They moved in on Friday and Saturday and have started painting and unpacking! They also discovered that someone did an extremely thorough and professional job of sabotaging the new air conditioner that is at the house! They had an HVAC contractor and an electrician out and got it fixed to the tune of over 800 bucks, and both agreed it was probably done by the installer: both of them thought probably after whoever hired the installer didn't pay them. We have no proof of this, but it seems the likeliest scenario. They signed an as-is contract so the sellers, even if they did cause it by stiffing someone, aren't legally liable, which was my first thought. And apparently it was done after final inspection.
However, that isn't my point. Insurance will probably pay. My point is that this is why I love my dad's contributions to conversation.
ION, Wax's younger brother visited this weekend from Seinäjoki with our youngest niece, who is now seven and has started school this year but is still just as crazy about animals as ever! She spent a lot of the visit staring at the bunnies and following Tristana around, but she had a lot more success this time. Tristana spent a lot of time playing with her and Japp and Rowan both let themselves be caught, held in her lap and petted for a long time, so I think it was a win from her point of view!
She's bilingual and she still refuses to speak Swedish - they live in a Finnish-dominated area and her mother is a Finnish speaker, and they do the standard thing where each parent speaks their own first language to the kids. Her older sister speaks Swedish with him and with us, his family, but the littlest niece refused for years and she mostly just answers everybody in Finnish, with her dad translating if necessary in the past, but now all her cousins (14 and 16 respectively) speak better Finnish than I do, it's fine. HOWEVER, she doesn't 100% refuse to speak Finnish anymore! Brother in law says that the one time she speaks Swedish to him is when she's really mad at him, like she wants to make EXTRA sure he understands her!
This is adorable and I think she's hilarious. I can't wait to see what she's like as she continues to grow bigger.
However, that isn't my point. Insurance will probably pay. My point is that this is why I love my dad's contributions to conversation.
me: I mean... the universe is infinite, so while money is the most likely cause, it's not the only possible one.
[CUT a long discussion between me and my sister about how much the sellers suck, what else they did wrong, and the bad renovations that were done in my and Wax's house]
Daddy: The universe probably is infinite, but our part of the cosmos, with galaxies and stuff, [h]as well defined but unknowable limits. So some possible things may have never actually happened.
ION, Wax's younger brother visited this weekend from Seinäjoki with our youngest niece, who is now seven and has started school this year but is still just as crazy about animals as ever! She spent a lot of the visit staring at the bunnies and following Tristana around, but she had a lot more success this time. Tristana spent a lot of time playing with her and Japp and Rowan both let themselves be caught, held in her lap and petted for a long time, so I think it was a win from her point of view!
She's bilingual and she still refuses to speak Swedish - they live in a Finnish-dominated area and her mother is a Finnish speaker, and they do the standard thing where each parent speaks their own first language to the kids. Her older sister speaks Swedish with him and with us, his family, but the littlest niece refused for years and she mostly just answers everybody in Finnish, with her dad translating if necessary in the past, but now all her cousins (14 and 16 respectively) speak better Finnish than I do, it's fine. HOWEVER, she doesn't 100% refuse to speak Finnish anymore! Brother in law says that the one time she speaks Swedish to him is when she's really mad at him, like she wants to make EXTRA sure he understands her!
This is adorable and I think she's hilarious. I can't wait to see what she's like as she continues to grow bigger.
