The bathroom is finished! It took a year, but at last we have a working sink, toilet AND shower on the second floor. Our tile guy, dear and beloved Scott, did our job moonlighting between a day time tile gig and a night shift driving gig. So, one row at a time, over the past four weeks, our complicated patterned shower tile was installed (and Scott was made dizzy).
And of course, a shout out to this guy, for doing everything else that makes a bathroom a bathroom (and a house a home):