We found the same sink that is in our new kitchen, but in white, at a local building salvage operation. It was $15, so we’re grabbing it. The current sink is quite worn and features a craptacular shade of chocolaty brown enamel.
A match
Tasty
The Cartoonist unearths the Calvados Diary.
I love Calvados.
Happy Birthday, Suzy.
Today my sister would have been 35. So not only is it Fitzmas.
I paid my first gas bill today; I can already tell that I dislike the utility company, which is clearly untrustworthy – a six dollar ‘convenience charge’ to pay via card, an online billpaying option that cancels the paper bill: the unmistakable spoor of evil.
My mail backup service plan appears to be working quite well, thank you, and I was pleasantly surprised by the professionalism and responsiveness this far on the part of my ISP. I initiated my DSL service with a mom-and-pop out of Olympia years ago, and my account has been acquired by a succession of pump-and-dump providers that really did a pretty poor job of providing support – a year or so ago when Qwest altered some technical details of the connection, I had to act as the ombudsman between Qwest and the acquiring party.
Saturday morning we’re meeting our contractor at the house. He says two to three weeks. I sure hope so. Maybe this weekend I will be able to mow the lawn.
offline!
Phones are down as of 10/27 – looks like DSL will be back up on November 1.
Rivet
You know, it’s really frustrating when you take the doors of your refrigerator off in order to change the way the door opens from left-to-right to right-to-left and discover that the last part exposed, the base mounting pin, is riveted in place on the carrying plate rather than removable and reconfigurable, like everything else. Which you had just removed, and now must put right back in place.
Also, someone somewhere must have explored the mystic rules or lack thereof which govern or torment the placement of light switches.
In attempting to fathom the plan, or lack thereof, behind the electrical ‘system’ installed in the new place, I begin to glimpse what I think must be the handiwork of the Old Ones.
Treo as video iPod
A MeFite suggests TCPMP as a video playback method for the Treo. I must admit, I had not considered employing the Treo to face video-capable iPodders. Come to think of it, I still won’t.
Service interruption
Qwest informs me that they will be transferring phone and DSL to the new location on October 27. I forecast some dark fiber in my linkfarms. Please bear with us as we navigate the outer reaches of telco provisioning.
Sacco
Chez FLOG subordinate shill-in-chief Eric Reynolds notes a long profile of house genius Joe Sacco today in the Oregonian.
The Oregonian has a non-PII demographic thingy you click through, and at least for me, insited on throwing up a print dialog on accessing this page; you may wish to print, given that the article is seven pages long as broken up for web publication.
Sleepers awake
My final weekend count of Home Depot visits appears to be five.
It’s unclear if this should remain an index or a high point. I would prefer to plan the jaunts and execute them once per weekend on Saturdays at 8 am.
Wet
As I stood in the sun on our shaggy lawn yesterday, I thought, ‘Perhaps I should mow it today instead of Sunday – after all, it is the rainy season.’
I dismissed this as an idle thought which was distracting me from other chores and decided to stick to my plan.
I awakened this morning to the soothing sound of steady winter rain.