The kitchen looked great in espresso brown. It looked very dressy and it fit the condo. Here’s what it used to look like. I have a lot of amazing memories in this place. I built my data centers from this place. This was the home I had far away when I moved to Colombia.
The condo got serious water damage and the kitchen needed to be replaced.
I wanted to replace it with the same espresso brown we had, perhaps with a slight upgrade in quality (although what we had was already very good).
Isa had her heart set on a white kitchen. I thought “well, that will be ugly” and fussed, but everything else in the condo was my taste, not hers, and so eventually I gave in.
I ordered a white kitchen and paid many thousands for them to upgrade the quality of the cabinets.
The trades gave us exactly what we ordered.
It’s fugly as hell. Isa and I both agree that it is vastly worse than what we had before. It just doesn’t suit this place at all. It’s a country kitchen in a highrise condo and it looks absurd. Hideous.
This is very personal to me even though I am not an especially emotional man. I loved this place. It now disgusts me to look at it.
I will now pay someone else even more thousands to throw this fugly kitchen in the garbage and give us an espresso kitchen exactly as I wanted originally.
I am not blaming anyone else. I am not mad at anyone else. This is my doing. I will wear it. I will fix it.
I haven’t taken one. It’s impossible to give it the same context as the apartment is still a construction zone. No furniture, no lighting beyond the ceiling lights. You couldn’t compare them. Good thing I hadn’t planned on buying a Rolex anytime soon because that money’s going to go into the kitchen now. lol.
from where i live, you can’t go an hour in any direction without seeing one of those roadside crosses that mark where someone had an accident and died.
you know the ones.
the cross is crooked and what once was a teddy bear is now just a sodden mass of fur.
that shrine to mybignancy looks like that.
keep the grass clipped, reggie
You know what they say about crooked crosses? I don’t either but it made me think of this scripture.
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing. Inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
One version states they are wolves who come to attack you. Some versions exchange ravenous for other similar words. I don’t know which one is correct so I always just assume all of them.
Ferocious = brutal
Vicious = malicious
Ravening = black
Plundering = steal
Ravaging = lay waste
Wild = uncultivated
Voracious = insatiable
Savage = ferocious/vicious (rinse and repeat)
As Asia opens travel from the USA the number of new cases of coronavirus is as high or higher than it was at the peak of new cases during the Trump administration when the entire world was on lockdown in March and April of 2020. Only essentials were allowed on the streets and no one was allowed out without a mask on. Many of you supported that lockdown and the mask. Looking back, I do wonder what you think about these mandates now. Of course some of you have me on ignore so I can safely assume you have no opinion of value or you would take off your mask, take me off ignore and attempt to score some kind of active communication about this new world we are living in.
Today, the mask mandate is laxed in most places except in health care facilities and schools where children must wear them all day. These are the same children that were never affected by exposure to the virus.
This is a fair point. We had 78 deaths in Canada yesterday, the highest total since February. Lockdowns are ending here, though. People are just done with it all. The general consensus is to let the weak and unvaccinated die.
