The countertop dude came and went this morning. Now only a few weeks left until a fully functional kitchen again. But waiting for him started me thinking about this whole concept of service windows, which started a few years ago with the utility companies. Prior to that, they would give you a date that they would come and connect stuff or do whatever and you had to take the whole day off of work, even if you were the last customer on the list and there's no way they could've shown up before four. Then enough people complained that they broke it into half days. So then everybody in the 'meet you at home' trades followed blindly along; when prior to that they would actually set a time to meet you. Now everybody makes you take a half day off from work because they never seem to show up at the beginning of the window. I live close enough towork that I could be home to meet somebody in five minutes, but no - I have to sit there all morning/afternoon and wait for them to show up. And they all have cell phones and so do I. Does anybody but me think this is ludicrous?

If you read yesterday's blurb you know I got the furniture assembled last night. But I didn't get to the drawer knobs. Oh well.