April 8 – “Everybody knows your name”

We had one of those marathon meeting with our contractor today.  He and Chris went over every possible detail about the interior doors.  I thought we came to a decision at one point.  Silly me.  Now we are waiting to hear from the sub contractor with another revised bid.  He's trying to find a middle ground between the all-stain price and the all-paint price.  The new idea is to have stained doors and painted everything else.  We saw some pictures, and it should look fine.  Actually, it would look fine to me with all paint.  We both sure like the look of wood, though.   The tape and bed guys showed up unexpectedly while the contractor and the floor guys were still there.  We thought that would mean World War III.  But all was well.  The contractor even got to tell them some of the concerns he had over what they had done so far.    When I went back by after teaching at SCA, the floor guys were gone.  It looks good.  It would look great, but there is sheetrock mud all over it now.  Oh, well.  They have to sand it before they stain it anyway.   The tape and bed guys were still there.  One of them was hooked in to those stilt things so they can reach the ceiling.  I think it would be cool to have a huge Olympics with every event run while on those things.   I went by Home Depot to pick up our medicine cabinet.  The same one we've been trying to get for weeks now.  They have failed to locate it, located it and then lost it, reordered it, scratched it right in the center, reordered it again, and given us the wrong date of arrival.  And guess what happened today?  It had not arrived yet.  It was (once again) "due in today."  The girl I talked to was a new one.  I guess by the time this is over we will have talked to their whole sales force.  She went back for help at one point, and when she returned, she said, "Everybody here knows your name."  I stayed very calm and talked just above a whisper the whole time.  When I left she was leaving a note for the manager, "Warning him" that we wanted to see him when and if the cabinet ever does come in.   Philippians 2:9-11 says, "Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."   Father, the only name that counts for people to know is yours.  Amen.