Well, despite the relative unpleasantness of the past week (and believe it or not, there were things I didn’t bother to write about) things seemed to have settled down to a relative calm.
We replaced the light on Monday–took about an hour and a half, and we didn’t have to rerun the wire (if we’d had to do that, the project might not have been done until spring.

Michael called the insurance company immediately after we discovered the windshield was broken, and the insurance company took his information, and immediately helped him get set up with an appointment to repair the window–even though it was 9:30 in the evening. We received a message the next day that our deductible was $200, and this morning we got the windshield replaced. The only problem was the the window collapsed on the way there, so there was a mess of broken class in the back of the car (luckily on the sheet we had put down when the glass first cracked.

And the frustrating week at work (mostly due to the fact that we are understaffed, and look to remain understaffed for some time to come) will be a faint memory as I take the next week off to travel with Michael to a conference. He goes to seminars and talks, I’m going to sit in the shade and read, and try to eat seafood for every meal but breakfasts.

Hopefully we won’t get any calls while we’re gone, telling us something else has happened to the house, or any other type of bad news.