Wedding Blog: BD**2 - 103

[gsabc]

Rabbi is a definite go. Spoke with GW yesterday, who says go for it, and didn't really blink at his fee. It's probably reasonable, maybe a little on the high side, but I'm not about to go shopping around or to bargain with him. It feels inherently wrong to haggle with your religious leader. So the last "vendor" is set, or will be when I call him today to verify his address to send the retainer.

GW is up and about, packing to come home from visiting the fambly. She managed to figure out how to set the alarm clock on her cellphone. It only took her two years of ownership. BD still sends texts to me for verbal transmission to GW, since poor old Mom doesn't do well in picking up text messages. Just give us old folks a phone that makes a phone call (what a concept!).

House got cleaned last night. BD did her share unrequested, because I had to go to a town meeting on our sewer line construction. Costs of PVC pipe and paving have doubled in the last 18 months, leading to a shortfall in the expected costs (predicted in 2002). In order to complete our section, the last and biggest of 11 phases involving about 10% of the town, we have to authorize another $18MM water/sewer costs (separate from property taxes; works out to $25-30 per year for the next couple years for sewer line users). If the authorization vote doesn't pass next Tuesday, then all bets are off regarding when we get our sewer line.

And the elliptical will get repaired tomorrow morning. The new repairman is set up for a mid-morning arrival. All the parts, including back-orders, have arrived. Let's hope they're the right ones this time. I've maintained weight (thanks in part, no doubt, to the prep diet for my "procedure"), but GW claims to have regained five pounds in the month we've been without it.

[earendel]

Rabbi is a definite go. Spoke with GW yesterday, who says go for it, and didn't really blink at his fee. It's probably reasonable, maybe a little on the high side, but I'm not about to go shopping around or to bargain with him. It feels inherently wrong to haggle with your religious leader. So the last "vendor" is set, or will be when I call him today to verify his address to send the retainer.

GW is up and about, packing to come home from visiting the fambly. She managed to figure out how to set the alarm clock on her cellphone. It only took her two years of ownership. BD still sends texts to me for verbal transmission to GW, since poor old Mom doesn't do well in picking up text messages. Just give us old folks a phone that makes a phone call (what a concept!).

House got cleaned last night. BD did her share unrequested, because I had to go to a town meeting on our sewer line construction. Costs of PVC pipe and paving have doubled in the last 18 months, leading to a shortfall in the expected costs (predicted in 2002). In order to complete our section, the last and biggest of 11 phases involving about 10% of the town, we have to authorize another $18MM water/sewer costs (separate from property taxes; works out to $25-30 per year for the next couple years for sewer line users). If the authorization vote doesn't pass next Tuesday, then all bets are off regarding when we get our sewer line.

And the elliptical will get repaired tomorrow morning. The new repairman is set up for a mid-morning arrival. All the parts, including back-orders, have arrived. Let's hope they're the right ones this time. I've maintained weight (thanks in part, no doubt, to the prep diet for my "procedure"), but GW claims to have regained five pounds in the month we've been without it.

It's good to hear that your "officiant" issue has been settled to everyone's satisfaction.

[peacock2121]

So sweet you said she claims to have gained weight.

very sweet.

[mellytu74]

gs --

I really do love reading the wedding blog.

[Appa23]

GS, I am curious if the rabbi called it a fee or a suggested donation.

(When I got married, as well as all of my siblings' weddings, we provided a donation to the Church, and a small stipend for the altar boys.)

[gsabc]

GS, I am curious if the rabbi called it a fee or a suggested donation.

(When I got married, as well as all of my siblings' weddings, we provided a donation to the Church, and a small stipend for the altar boys.)

Y'know, I don't know what term he used. I'll ask how to write the check, which should tell me.