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Things I have learned today:

1) I am a faggot.

2) Apparently I was not a Marine because I wear a beard.

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Had to push Jo up the driveway again tonight, thanks to the four-plus inches we got today and the slumlords' ambivalence to clearing the driveway.

From a news release on the City of Madison's website:

Thus far this month, Madison has seen 18.1 total inches of new snowfall. The average month-to-date snowfall for this point in December is 3.6 ( Read more... )

It's raining here again in Madison. We've had some enormous thunderclaps in the past half-hour, and while the rain isn't coming down with the typhoonish intensity of last week, I wonder how much the ground will be able to soak up. According to my little Doppler extension on Firefox, it looks like we'll have rain for most of the morning ( Read more... )

The water is finally back in working order thanks to the same inspector who was here yesterday. The plumber never showed, so the inspector brought a buddy and got everything working for us. Even the pipes feeding the washing machine were backed up with a huge amount of sediment.

Now I can put that plan to go bathe in the lake on the back burner.

Update on our water situation from yesterday: all we've got is one of the toilets. The inspector from the city utility got one working last night before he left, then called a half-hour later to say the plumber would be showing up at 9pm. The plumber never showed, and still hasn't showed. I placed a call to the utility this morning, and they ( Read more... )

Today has been anything but a good day. Our water was shut off this morning because of construction nearby. We'd received a notice on Tuesday that this would be happening, and that the water would be off for approximately 7.5 hours. We were told to "draw off this water prior to this time for emergency use and do not open any faucets or flush ( Read more... )

To all the idiots in Madison who wear headphones while aimlessly pedaling their bikes down busy city streets:

Get hit by a bus, or get a vasectomy/hysterectomy. Reproduction of the genes leading you to do something so stupid is what is holding up the rest of us having personal jet-packs.