Got ma wheels back. Again.
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Less grumpy now, at least about one thing.
kurlon, with the help of Max and moral support of
anna_mickel, was able to straighten my bent handlebar. I got ma wheels back. Again. I will successfully negotiate the way to the town office tomorrow to register both car and bike, to Portland and my doctor's appointment (checkup, nothing out of the ordinary), then to work, then to fencing. Max was kind enough to grab my gear for me tonight, so I may enjoy both hobbies in the same day.
Embarrassing, a bit, after all the "eeee getting my bike Saturday!!" that I did last week at work, to show up in the car this morning, and have to explain why. Bah. Another good reason not to screw up again. ;)
Dinner this evening was bacon wrapped chicken, filled with ham and swiss, with sautéed zucchini and mushrooms. Delicious. Haven't made that in quite a while.
Furnace/hot water is also working again. Replaced the controller on top, replaced the filters, which apparently were so gunked up they didn't look anything like filters anymore. The guy also had to chip out chunks of ick from the pipes. Amazing what not cleaning a system for seven years will do. Or not. It should run better now. The remainder of the cleaning is happening tomorrow morning. And we have nice full oil tanks, for a pretty low price.
A bit of a work rant, now... I did a design for a lovely couple, for their summer cottage, and was originally going to go up myself and lay out the plants for the guys to install, but that didn't happen, since I had to not be at work one day due to a 24 hour Martian Death Flu. They called today, wanted to talk about moving a few plants, since it just didn't look quite right... I saw the photographs they took, and attempted to be as tactful as possible with my boss (who laid out the plants) in discussing why certain things got put where they were put, and not where I'd intended them to go, and finally, in seeing that nearly NONE of the shrubs ended up anywhere near the right spot, straight out asked him 'did you not look at the design? at all?' Wednesday, M and I are going back, to fix what needs fixing. There are a few plants that we're adding, due to my never having seen the place except in photos, and design almost never comes out the same in real life as it does on paper, but I think it will come together just fine. But seriously? Did you even look at the design when you placed the plants, or just kinda wing it? Because just winging it? Didn't work. Design choices were not at all logical, or spaced properly, at all. Frustrating.
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Embarrassing, a bit, after all the "eeee getting my bike Saturday!!" that I did last week at work, to show up in the car this morning, and have to explain why. Bah. Another good reason not to screw up again. ;)
Dinner this evening was bacon wrapped chicken, filled with ham and swiss, with sautéed zucchini and mushrooms. Delicious. Haven't made that in quite a while.
Furnace/hot water is also working again. Replaced the controller on top, replaced the filters, which apparently were so gunked up they didn't look anything like filters anymore. The guy also had to chip out chunks of ick from the pipes. Amazing what not cleaning a system for seven years will do. Or not. It should run better now. The remainder of the cleaning is happening tomorrow morning. And we have nice full oil tanks, for a pretty low price.
A bit of a work rant, now... I did a design for a lovely couple, for their summer cottage, and was originally going to go up myself and lay out the plants for the guys to install, but that didn't happen, since I had to not be at work one day due to a 24 hour Martian Death Flu. They called today, wanted to talk about moving a few plants, since it just didn't look quite right... I saw the photographs they took, and attempted to be as tactful as possible with my boss (who laid out the plants) in discussing why certain things got put where they were put, and not where I'd intended them to go, and finally, in seeing that nearly NONE of the shrubs ended up anywhere near the right spot, straight out asked him 'did you not look at the design? at all?' Wednesday, M and I are going back, to fix what needs fixing. There are a few plants that we're adding, due to my never having seen the place except in photos, and design almost never comes out the same in real life as it does on paper, but I think it will come together just fine. But seriously? Did you even look at the design when you placed the plants, or just kinda wing it? Because just winging it? Didn't work. Design choices were not at all logical, or spaced properly, at all. Frustrating.