We'll be going away for a few days and have hired a cat sitter, but the cat sitter wants us to have an emergency backup person in case she and her staff can't get here. [Bad username or unknown identity: jenett"] kindly agreed to do this for me, so I went to her place yesterday with a set of spare keys, and spent about half an hour visiting, which was fun. (Given her and my limited spoons, neither of us visited the other in the 18 months I lived half a mile from her, in Arlington.)
The keys were more of a hassle than they should have been, because the first set of spared we got didn't work. Apparently the apartment door lock )(which our landlord put in within the last year) uses an obsolescent blank, and the first hardware store used the wrong one. The second hardware store explained the problem, but didn't have the necessary blanks; they gave![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude the name/code number for the correct blank, and referred him to Commoonwealth Locksmith, which is conveniently located near Porter Square. He got three keys made, that being what he thought we needed (two for the cat sitter and one to give Jen); I'd been thinking four, but I'd forgotten that the spare I gave adrian_turtle also doesn't work. So, I stopped in there and got two more copies of the key, which I tested as soon as I got home.
All this also means that the cat sitter, who came over a few days ago to meet us and the cats and get the spare keys will be coming back on Monday, to get spares that actually work.
The keys were more of a hassle than they should have been, because the first set of spared we got didn't work. Apparently the apartment door lock )(which our landlord put in within the last year) uses an obsolescent blank, and the first hardware store used the wrong one. The second hardware store explained the problem, but didn't have the necessary blanks; they gave
cattitude the name/code number for the correct blank, and referred him to Commoonwealth Locksmith, which is conveniently located near Porter Square. He got three keys made, that being what he thought we needed (two for the cat sitter and one to give Jen); I'd been thinking four, but I'd forgotten that the spare I gave adrian_turtle also doesn't work. So, I stopped in there and got two more copies of the key, which I tested as soon as I got home.All this also means that the cat sitter, who came over a few days ago to meet us and the cats and get the spare keys will be coming back on Monday, to get spares that actually work.
