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Oct. 23rd, 2014 01:24 pmI admit we needed rain. And ordinary rain would have been fine, but we're into the third day of a nor'easter that's supposed to think about going away tomorrow. So it's rain and wind from all directions, sometimes simultaneously, and at least one thunderstorm last night. The thunderstorm itself didn't bother me, but it meant that I spent most of the time between getting home from rehearsal at 10:15 and going to bed at 11:00 persuading Snip to (a) come out from behind the toilet, (b) eat her dinner, and (c) come out from behind the toilet again. Granted, missing one meal wouldn't hurt her, but since I actually interrupted Lily in the act of eating Snip's dinner, I thought I ought to do something about that.
While the home improvement train is still rolling (yay, new furnace, but I haven't gotten the gas bill yet so I reserve final judgment until then), I ought to go up on the roof after the storm and find out what's wrong with the gutter over the back kitchen window. Well, I know what's wrong with it; it leaks. A lot. And the leakage hits the outside of the window in such a way that it sounds like it's coming through the ceiling and hitting the kitchen floor. But for some reason it doesn't do it consistently, and that makes it hard to sleep sometimes. So I want to know why it does that, and if possible make it stop doing that. Besides being annoying, it can't be good for the window or the surrounding wall to be living under a waterfall like that for several days.
The little invisible man with the enormous invisible ice pick is after my left ankle again, and means business this time. I had to go buy another brace, because the usual one is at home and the ankle needed some help. It may be partly Achilles tendon (because it hurts in the back of my ankle and also the back of my knee), but it's partly something else, because it hurts up the side too. I guess now I have one half-assed excuse for not walking home (the weather, if it isn't raining by then) and one legitimate excuse.
While the home improvement train is still rolling (yay, new furnace, but I haven't gotten the gas bill yet so I reserve final judgment until then), I ought to go up on the roof after the storm and find out what's wrong with the gutter over the back kitchen window. Well, I know what's wrong with it; it leaks. A lot. And the leakage hits the outside of the window in such a way that it sounds like it's coming through the ceiling and hitting the kitchen floor. But for some reason it doesn't do it consistently, and that makes it hard to sleep sometimes. So I want to know why it does that, and if possible make it stop doing that. Besides being annoying, it can't be good for the window or the surrounding wall to be living under a waterfall like that for several days.
The little invisible man with the enormous invisible ice pick is after my left ankle again, and means business this time. I had to go buy another brace, because the usual one is at home and the ankle needed some help. It may be partly Achilles tendon (because it hurts in the back of my ankle and also the back of my knee), but it's partly something else, because it hurts up the side too. I guess now I have one half-assed excuse for not walking home (the weather, if it isn't raining by then) and one legitimate excuse.
