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| Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
da_lj
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9:36a |
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| Friday, June 27th, 2008 |
brad
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11:39p |
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008 |
da_lj
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11:51a |
City Sewer, ct'd After Saturday's sewer fun, I got a call from the city. Since the damage was caused by a city tree, they're taking responsibility for fixing it. They want to send a camera down the pipe to determine what's wrong. And they will pay for any further unclogging that needs to happen before they can replace the pipe (likely not until next year). I didn't ask whether our house needs to fast before the procedure, or whether it requires general anesthetic. I hope they're gentle. |
| Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
da_lj
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1:56p |
Dykes to Watch Out For Any non-local DTWOF fans out there willing to be on the lookout for something for me? Alison Bechdel has published a promotional hard-copy of The Daily Distress, the fictional newspaper from her comic, to promote her new book, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For. I figure it won't be too tricky for me to buy a copy of the book, but I would really like to get my hands on a copy of the promotional paper as well. I've asked her if she's willing to publish it as a PDF, but expect the publishers won't go for that. I expect our local market isn't big enough to get copies of The Daily Distress and I won't be in Toronto for a while (and who knows when Toronto will get copies anyway; might be a few weeks). So- if you run across an extra copy: and you don't mind getting it to me, I'd be appreciative. If you get a copy and can *scan* it for me, I'll be even more appreciative. :) |
| Monday, June 23rd, 2008 |
da_lj
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10:09a |
Sunday Almosts By rights, I should've lost the 160 photos I took from April 15 through last week. I was lazy about copying them off my camera, and I was lazy about plugging it into my work mac for the first time (to recharge the battery) and it didn't properly unmount, so yesterday when I tried to take photos and the camera said "0 photos" I was more than sufficiently chagrined. But: once we were home, I plugged it in, and iPhoto downloaded all 160 photos. I was still chagrined, but not nearly as sad. (I figure if I'm going to be this sad about losing the photos, I really should pay better attention to them, since some are fairly good photos. With gratitude-mixed-with-chagrin, I hope to make a photo post later this week.) A more positive near-miss: yesterday ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) melted_snowball, hotcabanasauce, roverthedog and I tried to go to the Toronto Islands for some sunbathing. We got there in excellent time, had a wonderful picnic, and just as we got to Hanlan Point, it started sprinkling. Which wasn't quite unexpected, given the forecast. There were impressive thunderheads to the west and north, and a friend of Tim's checked the current radar map, and it really looked like we were due for a big storm. So we had a nice walk instead, and caught the ferry back from the main Island, getting onto the boat an hour later as it started raining for real. It was a great walk; the only down side was *all the mobs of people* who were there for dragon-boat races. None of us really enjoyed the crush on the ferry, especially roverthedog who doesn't really like masses of ankles and shoes; but we got out without being too grumpy. And we got pastries and coffee and drove home again and- surprise surprise- I didn't mow because it was raining. |
| Saturday, June 21st, 2008 |
brad
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11:37p |
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| Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 |
da_lj
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12:15a |
Saturday Wrapup For the curious: Today I learned that if your house has an access-panel in the basement, with a grungy pipe head behind it, that is probably your house's main drain to the city sewer. And if that pipe starts gurgling, that means water is backing up from the street. And if the panel fills with water, that's another sign water is backing up. And if you're lucky, the plumber will get to it before things become really messy. We were lucky- I called Hammond Plumbing at 11 last night, their rep (who sounded knowledgeable) booked someone for 8:45 this morning, who showed up with a power auger, and two hours later the problem was (temporarily) resolved. I say temporarily because the problem is likely to recur, though it hadn't happened in the last seven years; his clearing the pipe brought up a lot of tree-root material, and his educated guess is that the pipe has a bad crack in it (we think from the big tree that the city replaced, three summers ago). And foreign material in the pipe will clog it eventually. This extravaganza cost us $230, though at one point there were also two city sewer employees in our basement, being paid overtime by the city, because it seemed that the blockage might be beyond our property-line and therefore the city's problem. The two city guys took measurements, converted them to metric, reported them back to their supervisor, and eventually the city will probably turn that into a bill for $295 plus tax because in fact the blockages were under the old tree, which is on our property. However, they might not charge us, possibly due to the detail (also reported to headquarters) that the tree causing the blockage had been a city tree. Whatever. This wasn't the ickiest thing to happen in our house, but it was icky, at least until I bleach-mopped the basement floor, and it was all over by noon, thankfully. ...meanwhile, melted_snowball was off talking to a sales rep for a condo, which seems a bit funny in the juxtaposition, especially considering d's been saying he wants to move to a loft every time there's a maintenance problem in our house, though this time it was an appointment I had set up yesterday afternoon. The "eco-loft" condos going in on Bridgeport had some new openings we wanted to check out. In the end, they aren't right for us; probably the condos going in at the Barrelyards will be, in a few years. And then d. made strawberry jam and I ran errands: - picked up a hold at the library - bought coffee beans - bought shoes, shorts, pillows, and pillow-cases at the outlet mall - got back and crashed. ...and the rest of the afternoon has been lazing about, eating leftovers, giving the dog a long walk, and watching more of Angels in America from HBO. How was your Saturday? :) |
| Friday, June 20th, 2008 |
brad
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11:39p |
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da_lj
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11:29p |
Since I'm up On the balance, this has been a good week, (and it still can end up a good week assuming the drain augering and fixing goes smoothly tomorrow morning, but I'm trying to not think about it). A few high points in the last week: - Work has been rewarding. This week I worked on: php, shell scripts, sql, perl, and WebObjects. I have challenging tasks, and more importantly, I have a plan; and the things I do will make my group's jobs easier. This is most excellent. - Last Saturday afternoon, I participated in a community witness that went more smoothly than we deserved (given the weather forecast, number of participants, and the structure of the event). And the food at the reception was excellent. And it included home-made lemon meringue pie. And we learned that our Quaker Meeting is going to have another wedding, next year. The couple met on Lavalife. He's 70, she's 50. - Ye's sushi with my sweetie. - semi-wild strawberries from the front yard. I've eaten a few, and they're delicious. - In a week, I'm seeing a huge pile of Friends at FGC Gathering, in Johnstown PA this year. I'm fairly intentionally making the week a challenge for myself, as instead of taking a workshop, I'm doing service work. Which could be draining, and it could be extremely rewarding. The only thing I know would make the week better would be if melted_snowball were able to come, but I expect we'll both do OK. My car will have at least one rider, and possibly 1-2 others if they get their acts together. I don't know any of them, but that's fine. We'll talk about workshops and figure out who we know in common... - And not one but two successful real-estate hunts among friends! chezmax & the_infamous_j bought a house locally that sounds well-suited to them, and sulle_stelle bought a stunning-sounding house in Tampa! Both were long shots, of a sort. Congrats, guys! |
| Thursday, June 19th, 2008 |
brad
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11:37p |
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