10 October 2001
Last year: Not that I have any hope we'd actually use it regularly, but at least when these fits of loathing for the clutter overtake me, I'd have someplace logical to put it all.
We have a working water heater again, and for less than I'd feared it would cost.
It turned out that the problem was that both thermostats (did you know water heaters have two thermostats?) had gone bad.
So finally, just after lunch, I got to take a hot shower. I went back into the office for a couple of hours (so I wouldn't have so many to make up over the rest of this week) and managed to accomplish just about nothing.
After I got home (again), we paid the Brandts a visit. Emma's still as cute as a button, though she slept for most of our visit. She's up to a little over eleven pounds now - Matt was making jokes about her chubby baby cheeks being a pound each all by themselves.
Matt's mom called us Monday evening. She'd heard two loud explosions, and gone outside to look. She saw nothing, so she called the police. They told her that what she'd heard were sonic booms as F-16s escorted a plane into O'Hare airport after a mentally disturbed man tried to break into the cockpit.
Slightly shaken, she called to make sure Matt was okay. No, it's not logical. But it makes perfect sense.
Yeah, today should be fun. I've got a staff meeting at 9:30 - and those have just been getting more and more fun, let me tell ya - and then at 10 or 10:30 I've got a meeting with the people who make the third-party software that my project uses. Hopefully they'll be able to tell us why their network security package makes our server so secure it can't even talk to things plugged directly into it.
In the meantime, I'm fighting either allergies or a cold - or possibly both. All I really want to do is curl up in bed with a large box of kleenex.
But I think I'm going to have to settle for finishing off my last four bags of tea.
Word of the Day:
spumescent - frothy, foamy
Song of the Day:
Easier Said Than Done (Essex)
Current Projects:
- drawing
- Hall stuff
- garden