(Followup to Veteraĉo.)

Facta est lux.
There was light.

When I came home last night there were power company trucks out in front. I went in, and a few minutes later the lights came on. Hallelujah!

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Half an hour ago I heard a loud, very brief BEEP! I looked at the digital alarm clock, and it was flashing "12:00", meaning yes, the power glitch was less than a minute ago. Sigh. Check my smartphone and set the clock to 12:47, stand up, go into the next room, and set the digital clock at my desk to 12:48. ... Read what I've just written, then go ( Read more... )

From Good Housekeeping.

Please, Please, Just Learn to Make Your Bed Already
Rachel Hoffman - who authored the just-released book Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess - shares her no-nonsense, actually realistic approach to cleaning up your clutter.
MAR 15, 2017One of the quickest and easiest ways to make a big impact on the overall ( Read more... )

Unlike my father, I am a very unhandy man. Things around the house that need fixing... don't get it. Or not for a long time. Or in slapdash or improvised ways. Or by somebody else who I can call on / hire. This is not always the case, but often.

In my new apartment (<1yr residence; building may be as old as I am) I find that I am using a lot of ( Read more... )

I started hearing a slow dripping. Traced it to the air conditioner. Radiator vanes were frozen up for the bottom couple inches ( Read more... )

I just went out in the cold, cold rain to shovel out the car. Not that I'm heading out tonight! but ice is a lot tougher than snow. I'd say that 2 or 3 inches of the stuff I just moved weighs something like twice as much as 6-8" of fresh-fallen fluffy.

So just in case you've forgotten
about that, or the weather is hitting
you with something you're ( Read more... )

( I'm shocked! Shocked!! )

I can start the charcoal to grill our supper, now that I have restocked on the necessary supplies: I made a quick trip for beer.

...and the feathers were flying.

Fortunately, not an argument and nothing X-rated or dangerous, and in fact a lot more down than up.

dunkelpig was taking the cover off our winter duvet to wash it before putting the whole thing away for the season, and discovered that the duvet is or has been leaking to an alarming degree. She asked me to bring up the heavy- ( Read more... )

I've done what I could to help dunkelpig make latkes for the shul party this afternoon, but now I must abandon her to her own devices for a while. She's just started frying them, and the fumes from the onions in the mix make my eyes burn. I could only stay in the kitchen/DR area by keeping them shut, and I wouldn't be much help that way.

So a couple of ( Read more... )