Rocks are hard

I’m sure I have mentioned the “rock” that I want for my table in here before. The idea is that there is to be a thin slab of limestone or travertine underneath the latticework in the top. The problem is that no one wants to sell me this rock. I’ve been to two different Home Depot locations because they claim to sell exactly what it is that I’m looking for. The first location was too helpful for my own good and told me that I didn’t actually want to buy a box of tiles from them. What I actually wanted to do was spend four hours on the telephone with local flooring sellers (apparently HD doesn’t qualify) trying to convince them that I should be allowed to buy a sample tile from them. The second Home Depot was much more not-helpful and actually managed to place an order for one box of 24″x24″ unfilled, honed Travertine floor tiles for me for the low, low price of $139 including tax. They said it would be in in 7 to 10 days. They said they would call me when it came in.

So, two weeks after I ordered it I’m starting to wonder where my rocks are. Since I was meeting Whitney at the greek food for dinner (Zorbas = nummy) and the HD was right across the parking lot I figured I’d wander down there and see what was the hold up. I found the guy who had placed the order for me and talked with him for a little and eventually we find out that my order had been canceled because the supplier said that rocks have been discontinued and that no one had bothered to call me to let me know that there are no more rocks. This puts my record at 0/2. I’ve been told that you only have to get a hit one in three times to make it into the hall of fame. I’ve also been told that there are a lot of flooring vendors in the Metic/Rundberg area and that I might be able to find someone that still has some rocks in stock. We’ll see. I might need to start thinking about alternatives to rocks if this keeps up.

Oh, I also had a dinner party. It went pretty well considering that I’ve never made dinner for nine people before. Bill took some pictures and put them on his Flickr page. Alex made the bestest cake ever and I’m thieving a link to the picture Bill took for my stupid blog.