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Personally I had always heard Year of the Ram so that’s the one I am going to stick with. Also if one dropped the ball on one’s New Years resolution, here is the second chance.
A lot going on here at Casa David right now along with a lot of waiting for the other shoes to drop.
We came home from Farpoint to no heat in the house. Got oil and no heat except in zone 1. Had the heating engineer over and rapidly discovered we had a leak from a broken pipe that was flooding Peter’s office. Had to quickly get stuff out of the area of the leak. Called a plumber to fix the leak but had to shut off the heat until the leak was fixed. Leak is fixed but one of the zones still isn’t working. We are trying to thaw it by heating up the rooms with space heaters carefully and listening for water dripping or seeing water dripping if we have another leak somewhere. Meanwhile the first floor looks like a bomb hit it.
So think really good thoughts for our heating system and Sunday, which will be the first day above freeze in almost a month.
I learned yesterday that the Apple store doesn’t service machines over 5 years old. Peter’s is 7 so you see where this is going. Peter’s hard drive on his computer has been slowly dying and is now kaput. To get it up and running, we have installed an external hard drive and used the last back-up to get his computer back to where it was. Since then I have backed up the laptop and all the iItems in the house. We get to see if this solves his problem as he launches into the next two things he must write.
If it does, then I have my laptop to work on a couple of different projects that I want/need to work on. If not then he goes back onto my laptop and we figure it out from there.
I think we skipped con crud this year. Someone did point something out that I didn’t even think about and that’s the bowls of communal munchies that are in the con suite. One infected hand goes in and a bunch of people can get ill. Makes me rethink noshing a bit.
So today is going to be about clearing up some space to put the stuff that had to come up from the basement and dealing with the room on the first floor that now has water damage.
If I get some free time then writing and puppets come into the picture but until I know the heat is working all through out the house, I am going to be on pins and needles waiting to see if I have to go into ‘save the stuff’ mode or not. Now pardon me as I go check the boiler pressure again.
I am grateful for the pipes that don’t break but thaw and allow heat back into the upstairs radiators.
A lot going on here at Casa David right now along with a lot of waiting for the other shoes to drop.
We came home from Farpoint to no heat in the house. Got oil and no heat except in zone 1. Had the heating engineer over and rapidly discovered we had a leak from a broken pipe that was flooding Peter’s office. Had to quickly get stuff out of the area of the leak. Called a plumber to fix the leak but had to shut off the heat until the leak was fixed. Leak is fixed but one of the zones still isn’t working. We are trying to thaw it by heating up the rooms with space heaters carefully and listening for water dripping or seeing water dripping if we have another leak somewhere. Meanwhile the first floor looks like a bomb hit it.
So think really good thoughts for our heating system and Sunday, which will be the first day above freeze in almost a month.
I learned yesterday that the Apple store doesn’t service machines over 5 years old. Peter’s is 7 so you see where this is going. Peter’s hard drive on his computer has been slowly dying and is now kaput. To get it up and running, we have installed an external hard drive and used the last back-up to get his computer back to where it was. Since then I have backed up the laptop and all the iItems in the house. We get to see if this solves his problem as he launches into the next two things he must write.
If it does, then I have my laptop to work on a couple of different projects that I want/need to work on. If not then he goes back onto my laptop and we figure it out from there.
I think we skipped con crud this year. Someone did point something out that I didn’t even think about and that’s the bowls of communal munchies that are in the con suite. One infected hand goes in and a bunch of people can get ill. Makes me rethink noshing a bit.
So today is going to be about clearing up some space to put the stuff that had to come up from the basement and dealing with the room on the first floor that now has water damage.
If I get some free time then writing and puppets come into the picture but until I know the heat is working all through out the house, I am going to be on pins and needles waiting to see if I have to go into ‘save the stuff’ mode or not. Now pardon me as I go check the boiler pressure again.
I am grateful for the pipes that don’t break but thaw and allow heat back into the upstairs radiators.
