Scrabble Board & Tiles

nicholas.steffine · February 24, 2021, 10:46pm

any updates? lol

trually · February 24, 2021, 11:04pm

No, I haven’t been able to use my machine for quite a while now.

nicholas.steffine · February 25, 2021, 12:28pm

oh no! what happened?

trually · February 28, 2021, 8:41pm

Well, it’s a loooonnnngggggg story. lol

If you want to hear my long story telling about it, expand this. LOL

First, one of the front carriage wheels broke, so I had to wait for the new part.

Right when I got the new part, but before I had a chance to replace the wheel, we discovered a leak in our kitchen. It was bad, it was under the cabinet and not visible. A large area of the kitchen was wet, so the hardwood floor had to be torn out of about 2/3 of our (small) kitchen, and the whole bottom section of cabinets. Our whole house is chaos because we had to move everything out of the kitchen.

Then to make things worse, the crisis in Texas has delayed our claim (especially because the insurance company is based in Texas). So right now we’re still waiting on the approval of the estimates. I called them on Friday and escalated our claim basically, so hopefully in the next few days it will be approved.

It wouldn’t be as difficult if we didn’t have two young kids (including our daughter with special needs) and they are both doing remote learning.

Depending on how I manage my time today, I might maneuver my way around everything and try to replace the carriage wheel today. I know it’s not good to have the machine not in use for long periods of time. At least if I can get it going and do something small, that would help. (And because I guess I’m a glutton for punishment, yesterday I changed my son’s whole bedroom and we had to move furniture around the house LOL but it’s all good, just chaotic.)

But our lives have been kind of like this for the last 4 years, we just try to roll with the punches the best we can. It’s all good. Our daughter had leukemia, so this is all fine. We will get through it. Cancer brings perspective! lol

trually · March 4, 2021, 5:02am

Char-lee (my GF) is up and running again! <3 I’m so excited I was practically dancing around. But as soon as the the stars and moon align and our rebuild is approved and set up, I’ll lose access for a while again, I’m sure. (that’s ok.)