News of the week
Mar. 27th, 2009 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetzOn Thursday of last week, the drain pipe from my kitchen sink, laundry tub, and washer/dryer plugged up solid. As mentioned before, the drain pipes in my house were rather sluggish when I moved in and have been getting slowly worse ever since. On Friday I used Google Maps to find the closest plumber to my house, since if I was going to start a new business relationship with a plumber, I wanted one who would be willing to come to my house if our single toilet stopped working in the middle of a blizzard (because of course that is when it would happen).
On Friday, at 4:45 PM, exactly when promised, the neighbour-plumber showed up and spent a solid hour reaming out my pipes. Then I had a nice weekend. On Monday, at 3 PM (a little earlier than promised and without the preceding phone call that had been promised), the neighbour-plumber brought over one of the dozen journeyman plumbers who works for him. The journeyman re-hung the kitchen sink drain pipe to have a sharper slope (and removed the narrow copper section that was slowing the waste down), replaced the hot-water supply pipe that I had repaired with aquarium cement over a year ago, and tightened the screws on the toilet tank.
Yesterday, the plumber called to confirm my last name and said he'd hand-deliver a bill. I still haven't gotten it yet.
My original plan was to call a plumber about the drain pipes when the aquarium cement failed, but it didn't fail!
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Yesterday I received an email from ServerMojo.com, which I had signed up for a long time ago but then never used. The subject was "ServerMojo trial expired" and the body explained that I needed to sign up for a paid account if I wanted to keep using the thing.
Today I received another email, with subject "ServerMojo trial *not* expired", explaining that yesterday's email was erroneous because my account is so old that is effectively a permanent free account. It said, "If you didn't yet know we'd recently launched a new and much improved ServerMojo - well this isn't quite the way we wanted to tell you but we hope you will have a look now and check it out anyway!"
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My area has both grey squirrels and the melanistic "black squirrel", which is a mere colour-variant and the two kinds of squirrels interbreed (just like the different colours of humans do, except where authoritarians have made it their business to put a stop to the "miscegenation").
Today I saw a squirrel whose fur was a mixture of grey and reddish. It looked perhaps like it was in the middle of molting. Wikipedia claims that the red squirrel does not live in Canada, but does molt from grey to red in the spring. Perhaps it was a fox squirrel. The sighting was in a public park, so I didn't kill the "living fossil" and turn it into a squirrel sandwich.
On Friday, at 4:45 PM, exactly when promised, the neighbour-plumber showed up and spent a solid hour reaming out my pipes. Then I had a nice weekend. On Monday, at 3 PM (a little earlier than promised and without the preceding phone call that had been promised), the neighbour-plumber brought over one of the dozen journeyman plumbers who works for him. The journeyman re-hung the kitchen sink drain pipe to have a sharper slope (and removed the narrow copper section that was slowing the waste down), replaced the hot-water supply pipe that I had repaired with aquarium cement over a year ago, and tightened the screws on the toilet tank.
Yesterday, the plumber called to confirm my last name and said he'd hand-deliver a bill. I still haven't gotten it yet.
My original plan was to call a plumber about the drain pipes when the aquarium cement failed, but it didn't fail!
* * * * *
Yesterday I received an email from ServerMojo.com, which I had signed up for a long time ago but then never used. The subject was "ServerMojo trial expired" and the body explained that I needed to sign up for a paid account if I wanted to keep using the thing.
Today I received another email, with subject "ServerMojo trial *not* expired", explaining that yesterday's email was erroneous because my account is so old that is effectively a permanent free account. It said, "If you didn't yet know we'd recently launched a new and much improved ServerMojo - well this isn't quite the way we wanted to tell you but we hope you will have a look now and check it out anyway!"
* * * * *
My area has both grey squirrels and the melanistic "black squirrel", which is a mere colour-variant and the two kinds of squirrels interbreed (just like the different colours of humans do, except where authoritarians have made it their business to put a stop to the "miscegenation").
Today I saw a squirrel whose fur was a mixture of grey and reddish. It looked perhaps like it was in the middle of molting. Wikipedia claims that the red squirrel does not live in Canada, but does molt from grey to red in the spring. Perhaps it was a fox squirrel. The sighting was in a public park, so I didn't kill the "living fossil" and turn it into a squirrel sandwich.
Re: First ve get moose an skwirrel
Date: 2009-03-28 12:44 am (UTC)