more on the electrical permit
found out the other night that the electricians in fact did NOT take out an electrical permit. would've been nice if they had asked me back in september whether i needed a permit, but in the end, all permits are my responsibility (i am technically the contractor, after all) and they certainly didn't do anything wrong. i've just learned the hard way that i need to be more proactive about such things in future projects.
so anyway, the permit's being taken care of now. if i understood jerry correctly, he did the permit paperwork in person, which should help shave at least a couple of days off the processing time. jerry says it'll probably be 5-6 days before it's processed and the dude can come inspect. the lady at the permit office says at least 10 days. the dude doing the actual inspecting says 2-3 weeks. i have no idea which one is closest to the truth, so i'll start pinging them around middle of next week to see where things are.