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I am exhausted, the weather is cold and wet. Fortunately B has noticed that when the weather is like this, I want pasta, so he brought home a variety of pasta dishes for dinner!

F, the contractor, quit on Monday morning. He was working in the back yard and I poked my head out and saw him prying up a tree root with a pickaxe. I asked him to be careful, he said okay, no big deal. The tree was fine. A little while later I stepped outside and he said "I think we're finished. We've took out all the dirt we can and we leveled it."

Point 1: no, he hadn't leveled shit.

Point 2: he had not removed soil from a really critical place: the enclosed area on the S side of the house. That area is where the water came into the house, because the piled up soil there trapped it against the house. He also hadn't done the North side of the house.

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Ok the contractor has gone all sorts of shady and we may end up firing him today.

Yesterday he called in sick. That was fine, people get sick! He was sick one day last week too, and we understand that and don't want him working sick. This morning, he called B early in the morning and said he was too sick to come in, but was sending his employee in to do the drywall mudding. That guy came in and started work, and almost as soon as B left, F shows up. He always waits until B is not home to have these pushy conversations with me, and I suspect this morning it was intentional, because . . .

He informs me he is not going to paint the master bedroom. He says that painting was not included in the original estimate and that I said I would paint. I showed him his estimate where he wrote that painting was included. I acknowledged that I said I would purchase the paint, but that he was hired to do the painting. He changes his tune and says that he only meant painting the places where he drywalled. I point out that he is drywalling in the bedroom. He insisted that we never mentioned painting the whole bedroom. I know that we did, because B forgot to bring it up and so I did, and he was all "Oh yeah, I forgot about that. We want this whole room painted white." So now F says he's not going to paint my bedroom. He says it will take too much time and that he thought I was going to paint.

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The landscaper we want to hire to regrade the yard has been squirrelly. Like he's really slow to respond to contacts. When I get him on the phone he asks me to send him an email, and then when I send the email he never responds. So Monday I texted him saying I sent an email to let him know we want to hire him. He responded Tuesday morning. Supposedly he will get back to me soon.

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