Archive for November, 2008

One of the first things our contractor Heath told me was that he hates clean-up on a job site. Having never worked at a job site, I couldn’t really speak to this preference. It seemed to me at the time that clean-up had to be easier than almost any other job that might need doing, and I readily volunteered to... »

When I had called Tom earlier in the day, he had told me he doesn’t often do snake removal, but, he added, he likes it because he gets to see how other people live, to poke around in their space. I can see he’s aching to poke, and I’m happy to let him. I spent the first five and a... »

Tom seems disinterested in the bush and its snake. I want him to be very interested in that snake, but it’s unfair to call a man about a snake that lives in the insulation under your living room floor and then expect him to look for a snake that lives outside in a bush. I take a deep breath and... »