Construction update

Plans supposedly go to the City today for approval. I don't know how long the approval process takes. The engineering plans have been being drawn up over the past two weeks.

Construction camera is in the house. I'm working on getting it set up to automatically upload pictures to a soon-to-be-revealed location. Hmmm. I could have it post to my blog every 15 minutes. Naaah. That'd be annoying.

Sears has managed to annoy us. We purchased a bunch of appliances from them about six weeks ago. Part of the plan was that one of the appliances would be free due to a rebate they were offering. They didn't tell us, before the purchase, that you had to make the purchase with a Sears credit card or with a zero-financing plan. We paid cash.

We got the rebate rejection in the mail yesterday and noticed the clause on the rebate about the financing/credit card requirement. Sears, on the phone today, has been dismissive of our plight. We will probably get Kim's dad involved in these discussions, since he's get a better gift of gab.

Since we haven't taken delivery on the appliances, we can use that as a potential tool to leverage the rebate out of them. Do they want some profit or no profit?