The ceiling

So, had the contractor come in and look at my sons room, where half the plaster ceiling came down. Room is about ten foot by eight foot, and it's 1150.00. That's to take out the remaining plaster, put up drywall, then paint and texture to look like the old ceiling, so i might knock $ off just getting drywall and a skim coat up, texturing not that important to me. I get that with half the ceiling, it's not a patch job, it's a replacement, and btw, drywall about 1/4 cost of getting a new plaster ceiling.

but it's about double what I was hoping it would be! I have some more calls back to places to get estimates, but no one's getting back to me. I guess they consider these small residential jobs not worth it.

So far out of bounds it's not even funny - Benedict Cumberbatch cyberstalked

a neighbour was live-tweeting his movements in his London home.

“I would say that it was the strangest fan experience that I’ve ever had, I had someone live tweeting my movements while I was in my own house.“It was such a strange and a direct thing to see these tweets saying what I was doing as I was doing them. I found it really worrying, and, yes, of course, very hard to deal with. I worked out after a while who it was who was doing it so, when it came to it, I didn’t actually call in the police, but I was prepared to do so.

“I’m not going to say any more about it. The person concerned knows now what I felt about it. I just found it very hard to come to terms with the idea that an individual could look into my house like this, and talk about me online, and think it is a perfectly okay thing to do.

“The sad thing is I don’t really have anonymity any more in the UK as it has got just like it is in America,” he says. “Here I get stopped quite a lot now. Sometimes it is bearable and sometimes it isn’t.”


This is incredibly creepy, and so out of bounds, I remember when actress Rebecca Schaeffer was stalked by a fan (and killed) and I’m always afraid for anyone in the public eye these days.