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Aug. 10th, 2021 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckCordelia's work has started requiring masks again. Cordelia's both irritated by wearing the mask and glad that her employer is taking things seriously.
Michigan State has let us know that they'll be requiring masks for at least the first few weeks of fall semester. They didn't commit to any end date, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was deliberate.
We need to get our house into company ready state by next weekend. Our SIL and older niece from Seattle are coming to town so that our niece can take a look at the University of Michigan campus. They'll be here less than 24 hours, but we need to come up with a place where they can sleep.
We used to put people on an air mattress in the basement, but Scott and Cordelia have ruled the basement 'too gross' for guests which leaves the floor in Cordelia's room and the floor in the living room. Probably the niece on a camping mat on Cordelia's floor and our SIL on the living room couch.
It'll be challenging because I'm used to being able to stay up quite late and then sleep equally late, so is Cordelia. Given the configuration of the house (1 story ranch, about 850 square feet), it's not possible for me to stay up while someone's trying to sleep in the living room, and Cordelia staying up while someone's trying to sleep on her floor has obvious problems.
Our rooms cluster tightly enough that light in the study, the kitchen, or the dining room means light in the living room. The two bedrooms and the bathroom have doors which will mitigate some light issues (but not all), and the doors are not quiet, not when they're all so tightly clustered. I can get from our bedroom doorway to the study or to Cordelia's room in one step. I can get to the bathroom in two and the living room in three. The study and the living room both connect to the kitchen/dining room, just at different points. (The basement stairs open between the study and the kitchen.)
I'm pretty sure that our SIL is expecting sleeping quarters in the basement. That's where we've always put them before. Of course, we don't have a usable air mattress any more, and we have a rather large number of boxes of books (I think we've got about 12 good sized boxes) that we want to donate as soon as the Friends of the Library start accepting donations again.
They're currently saying possibly the end of August, but I'm not holding my breath. Partly because I'm not convinced the reopening is going to last and partly because I suspect they'll open up and then get overwhelmed as 18+ months of donations get dumped on them in the first week.
Some of Cordelia's old books might work for either the nearby K-8 or for Skyline, but either will be a long wait for being able to donate. I don't think most of what I'm getting rid of would be useful for a school collection as it's mostly mass market paperbacks.
We don't have any good options for moving the books elsewhere. I suggested the garage, but there are two barriers there. The first is that Scott wants to be able to put the car in there every night. The second is that we'd have to jury-rig something to keep the boxes off the floor; all the rain that hits the driveway flows toward the back of the garage. We have some crude mechanisms for getting it out the back without rotting the baseboards, but that doesn't help anything on the floor.
Michigan State has let us know that they'll be requiring masks for at least the first few weeks of fall semester. They didn't commit to any end date, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was deliberate.
We need to get our house into company ready state by next weekend. Our SIL and older niece from Seattle are coming to town so that our niece can take a look at the University of Michigan campus. They'll be here less than 24 hours, but we need to come up with a place where they can sleep.
We used to put people on an air mattress in the basement, but Scott and Cordelia have ruled the basement 'too gross' for guests which leaves the floor in Cordelia's room and the floor in the living room. Probably the niece on a camping mat on Cordelia's floor and our SIL on the living room couch.
It'll be challenging because I'm used to being able to stay up quite late and then sleep equally late, so is Cordelia. Given the configuration of the house (1 story ranch, about 850 square feet), it's not possible for me to stay up while someone's trying to sleep in the living room, and Cordelia staying up while someone's trying to sleep on her floor has obvious problems.
Our rooms cluster tightly enough that light in the study, the kitchen, or the dining room means light in the living room. The two bedrooms and the bathroom have doors which will mitigate some light issues (but not all), and the doors are not quiet, not when they're all so tightly clustered. I can get from our bedroom doorway to the study or to Cordelia's room in one step. I can get to the bathroom in two and the living room in three. The study and the living room both connect to the kitchen/dining room, just at different points. (The basement stairs open between the study and the kitchen.)
I'm pretty sure that our SIL is expecting sleeping quarters in the basement. That's where we've always put them before. Of course, we don't have a usable air mattress any more, and we have a rather large number of boxes of books (I think we've got about 12 good sized boxes) that we want to donate as soon as the Friends of the Library start accepting donations again.
They're currently saying possibly the end of August, but I'm not holding my breath. Partly because I'm not convinced the reopening is going to last and partly because I suspect they'll open up and then get overwhelmed as 18+ months of donations get dumped on them in the first week.
Some of Cordelia's old books might work for either the nearby K-8 or for Skyline, but either will be a long wait for being able to donate. I don't think most of what I'm getting rid of would be useful for a school collection as it's mostly mass market paperbacks.
We don't have any good options for moving the books elsewhere. I suggested the garage, but there are two barriers there. The first is that Scott wants to be able to put the car in there every night. The second is that we'd have to jury-rig something to keep the boxes off the floor; all the rain that hits the driveway flows toward the back of the garage. We have some crude mechanisms for getting it out the back without rotting the baseboards, but that doesn't help anything on the floor.
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Date: 2021-08-11 10:11 am (UTC)We had similar logistical problems with overnight guests in our old house.
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Date: 2021-08-11 03:24 pm (UTC)Admittedly, most of them move away before the oldest kids hit 3rd grade. Our neighborhood is about half rental properties that house graduate students with families. The other half is mostly people older than we are who have owned their houses longer than the 25 years we've lived here.
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Date: 2021-08-11 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-11 02:49 pm (UTC)Also, I'm the former webmaster for the Friends of the Library and might be able to get you an in with sending a donation sooner. Should I ask them about that?
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Date: 2021-08-11 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-11 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-11 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-11 03:16 pm (UTC)Some of how this works will depend on whether they're coming here from Seattle or whether they did the Boston college visit first. I suspect the latter because they're going on to Chicago from here, but who knows how the airfare and scheduling lined up? They're flying to Metro, staying here one night, and then taking either the train or the bus to Chicago.