{"id":4100,"date":"2024-07-19T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"mostly-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"MOSTLY FINISHED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I only have energy for a bit of stream-of-consciousness writing tonight, so here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n

It’s weird to finish a project that you’ve been procrastinating on for nearly 4 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

My deadline for the stair railing was 2:00 today. That was when an appraiser was coming by our house to judge what it is worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

With an extra hand from Hannah at the finish line, I had all the balusters in place by 2:45, just as the appraiser was ready to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n

He complimented my work, said he was glad it wasn’t his project, took a picture of it for his records and then walked out the door.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

I mentioned yesterday that I am greatly helped by having a firm deadline. I hate to admit it publicly, but I am sure I would get more done at both my jobs if I had some outside force setting deadlines.<\/p>\n\n\n

(I am finding it very hard to make progress on my dissertation work because I easily blow past my own deadlines. There are no repercussions – besides feelings of guilt and inadequacy.)<\/p>\n\n\n

Melissa is more than happy with the way the stairway turned out. And making her happy is a big motivator for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Maybe I should put her in charge of my weekly calendar?<\/p>\n\n\n

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(I say it’s finished, but that’s not exactly true. There is still painting and trim work to do. But I am determined to break out of my handyman reputation of being “King of Almost Finished Projects”, so perhaps when Melissa travels out to Myrtle Beach with Hannah in a couple of weeks to do some apartment hunting, I will get the stairs 100% complete.<\/p>\n\n\n

Now that I’ve stated it publicly, Melissa is bound to hold me to it!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only have energy for a bit of stream-of-consciousness writing tonight, so here goes: It’s weird to finish a project that you’ve been procrastinating on for nearly 4 years.\u00a0 My deadline for the stair railing was 2:00 today. That was when an appraiser was coming by our house to judge what it is worth.\u00a0 With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}