In this same interlude it doth befall that I... present a wall

Sorry for the suspense!
I had a second interview (same place) on Saturday and was almost immediately hired! I am not only relieved to have the hunt come to a close, but I am also happy with where it ended - I think 5 Napkin has exactly what I was hoping to find: great hours, good money, food and drink I can stand behind and a pretty cool staff. The bar closes with the kitchen at midnight so I won't be stuck with a 4am NY closing time. The food is actually really good and we have a bunch of great beers as well as specialty cocktails and shakes. The product combined with its proximity to the theater district/times square area keep the place packed, so the money is well worth my time. (Hard work, but I definitely prefer that over standing around. Plus I get to play with a blow torch and use all of my mad drink-making skills.) I haven't had much time to get to know people but in my 3 days so far I have picked up the feeling that the people who are good at their jobs, whether I would care to spend time with them or not, outnumber the duds. I mean, they're no Acme staff, but they're alright. ; )

The house is slowly on its way to becoming a really nice space. The shelf install was going great until I found a peculiar problem with one wall on which I would very much like to have a somewhat key shelf: one part of the wall is hollow at a depth of about half an inch, a problem I ran into on a previous wall but one easily remedied by hollow wall screw anchors. However, the other part of the wall, precisely where I wanted to screw in the opposite elbow bracket, seems to have concrete at the same depth at which the other side is hollow. Peculiar, yes and also very frustrating. BOTH of the stud-finders I have used are completely wacked, beeping at random and giving consistently contradictory reads on the wall. It leaves me a pickle: do I give up and just hang some pictures there, after I patch the two large holes? Or do I drill until I find 2 proper holes, knowing that the wall needs to be patched anyway? The latter seems a bit crazy, but then again, so is the wall.

At least we have the important stuff in place: the kitchen is in cooking order, the bedroom is cozy and free of clutter and my music area is all set up in a comfortable corner section of the living room.