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Oct. 12th, 2006
What else to complain about?
Oct. 12th, 2006 02:01 pmSince everybody else is commenting on the cold snap, I'll add my own thoughts.
Brrrrrr. Also, Yukky. (Which TRex now says when she sees the weather forecast on the TV.) 50s and rainy is definitely sub-optimal. Also, we're going to have to re-light the pilot light on the furnace tonight. (We had it on for a couple of days last week.) And this weekend we need to go acquire a new hat and mittens for TRex and slippers for her to have at home and daycare.
Also, the small crack in the windshield of my car grew a LOT in the last week, after not changing much at all for months. I drove the car to pick up my folks at the airport last Friday and it was as it had been for ages. Moved the carseat back to my car last night because it gets far better gas mileage than the station wagon, and noticed this morning that the crack has more than doubled in size. Why couldn't it have done that BEFORE we spent $400 getting it up to spec for inspection? It's getting big enough that I would feel safer if we got it fixed... but that's another $250. Rargh. If it had done this BEFORE the inspetion, we just would have called it the end of the car's life. (It is almost 20 years old, after all.)
Rargh.
Brrrrrr. Also, Yukky. (Which TRex now says when she sees the weather forecast on the TV.) 50s and rainy is definitely sub-optimal. Also, we're going to have to re-light the pilot light on the furnace tonight. (We had it on for a couple of days last week.) And this weekend we need to go acquire a new hat and mittens for TRex and slippers for her to have at home and daycare.
Also, the small crack in the windshield of my car grew a LOT in the last week, after not changing much at all for months. I drove the car to pick up my folks at the airport last Friday and it was as it had been for ages. Moved the carseat back to my car last night because it gets far better gas mileage than the station wagon, and noticed this morning that the crack has more than doubled in size. Why couldn't it have done that BEFORE we spent $400 getting it up to spec for inspection? It's getting big enough that I would feel safer if we got it fixed... but that's another $250. Rargh. If it had done this BEFORE the inspetion, we just would have called it the end of the car's life. (It is almost 20 years old, after all.)
Rargh.
A question for the librarians
Oct. 12th, 2006 02:09 pmI find myself occasionally using materials that (shockingly) have no LOC number (some online-only journals and things like reports and data memos). Since I catalog everything by LOC number, this leaves me with a pile of things that I haven't decided how to file. Some of them have ISSNs, others don't.
Suggestions?
Suggestions?
There are 2 to 3 inches of heavy, wet, slushy snow on the ground, trees, everywhere. Where TRex's favorite puddle is, it's a lake of slush. We're to stay off the roads until 6 am - at the moment our side street isn't passable anyway. Our trees are ok, but the big maple in our neighbor's yard dropped a smallish branch into the backyard. There was a loud noise a couple of minutes ago; I went and looked and didn't see any damage in the direction it came from. I'm a little concerned becuase it overhangs our garage by a good bit. It's still thundering and lightening.*
*Why is it "thundering and lightning"? Lightning comes before thunder!
( PIctures )
Oh, and we managed to light the furnace on the first try. Go us, we're smarter than a pile of bricks.*Why is it "thundering and lightning"? Lightning comes before thunder!