Shortly after Stephanie and I moved into our apartment in San Francisco we bumped into our landlords measuring the hallways. “Yay,” we thought, they’d be replacing the ratty old carpet soon! Turns out we were right about the “replacing the carpet” part, just not the “soon.”

Come last week, while Jean-Claude and Sabine were crashing with us before flying back to France, the carpet replacement began.

Yes, we’ve actually been living in a hotel.