This is somewhat normal behavior, right?

[TrekDianna]

I am so tired of home remodeling also. I am working remotely at my vacation house while every floor in my other house has been ripped out (good riddance to the pink carpet). I was going to stay there, but after I stepped on a nail and needed a tetnus booster, I came to the other house. If I had a bit of forethought, I would have scheduled this while i was on vacation out of the country for a month this summer.

[ny biker]

I am so tired of home remodeling also. I am working remotely at my vacation house while every floor in my other house has been ripped out (good riddance to the pink carpet). I was going to stay there, but after I stepped on a nail and needed a tetnus booster, I came to the other house. If I had a bit of forethought, I would have scheduled this while i was on vacation out of the country for a month this summer.

I only have one house and one bathroom. I want to be here for the bathroom renovation so I can be involved with the details and keep an eye on things. So I need to find out how many days it will be totally unusable (no toilet) and find a hotel or friend to stay with on those days.

As for the new floor, they say they can be finished in a day. The challenge there is piling as much in the kitchen as possible to minimize the things the installers have to move around in the rooms where they are working. I even have to get everything off the closet floors. This is where having fewer bikes is a good thing -- I can put the mountain bike out on the balcony and store the road bike in my car.

[Wasp]

Was out looking at dishwashers over the weekend. One thing I didn't like with the Bosch was the bottom rack layout, it's quite restrictive. You have to put certain sized plates in certain sections. We actually took a few of our dishes and bowls with us to try out, you might want to do that. I looked at the Miele. They are very expensive (Canada) and other makes offered same options at a lower price. I wanted my new dishwasher to have a few things. Top rack had to be adjustable, cutlery rack not on the door, a third rack for small cooking utensils. Ended up buying a Maytag.
To the OP......buy the bike

[thekarens]

FWIW my sister has a very expensive Kitchen Aide dishwasher and hates it. She says the best dishwasher she's ever had was a mid priced Maytag. We're in the market for a new one. I hate my Frigidaire.

[IBrakeforPastry]

Get the bike! Do it for us and the economy. We'll help you pick red accents.

The bike actually comes with red bar tape and bottle cages, and has a white stripe. I might to go all black. Or maybe silver or gold, if it's not too "blingy". Or blue. I like blue.

Funny thing, though. A couple of days ago I was out riding the red bike. I found a baby bird in the road and stopped to move him over to the grass. As I was standing there in the road, cradling a bird in my hands, I looked over at my bike, shimmering in the sun, and thought, "Wow, that looks sharp". The bird just blinked at me. He wasn't impressed.