They showed hurricane warning flags in Chatham last night, and from the sound of the wind here, they were right to do so.
Month: January 2005
Day 4
It’s the start of Day 4 with no furnace. Right now, it’s about 3 degrees outside and 51 in the house.
Fortunately, the water pipes still seem to be okay.
The computers are happy: my PC, which had been making a regular groaning noise for months, is humming pleasantly, whether due to the temperature in the office or the fixes I made earlier this week.
Bubble Wrap
Sealed Air, the company that invented bubble wrap, invites us to join them in celebrating the 5th annual National Bubble Wrap
No Furnace, Day 3
I live in a house with a forced hot air heating system by natural gas, and at 4 AM three days ago, the circuit board that controls the fan died.
It’s a semi-old system, we think it was installed around 1990, so getting parts is a challenge because the circuit board manufacturer has changed the design.
Thus, it’s a guessing game which new version is compatible with my system.
George Bush Has Made the World More Dangerous
So what makes those Europeans so much smarter than half the voting public in the US?
Problems Solved
I’ve been having a weird problem for weeks, if not months, with Visual Studio .NET, my main development environment.
VS.NET crashed every time I tried to open a file from the IDE.
This is more than a minor nuisance, since there are times you HAVE to open a dialog window; for example, if you want to add an unregistered reference to a project. It had become such a vexation that I was ready – more than ready – to replace my PC.
To the Trash
I’ve been increasingly irritated by the spam mails from John Kerry, which seem to be more frequent now that the Electoral College vote has been made official.
Conspicuously absent from any meaningful participation in the election protests, Kerry now seems to feel he has a right to lead the loyal opposition through four more years of George Bush.
Well, at Least the Computers are Happy
My faithful computers, which live here without complaint when the temperature is over 80 degrees, have been in their little glory the past couple of days.
Right now, it’s a little over fifty in the house, due to a failure early yesterday of the circuit board that runs the furnace blower.
Best Employers For Over-Fifties
AARP has published its annual list of best places to work for people in their target demographic, i.e., ages 50 and above.
Lest one take too much heart from this, one needs to read the responses to Anne Fischer’s column in Fortune magazine about the AARP’s sanguine report.
Kidnapped Child Returned to Parents…
Kidnapper melodramatically drops to the ground and weeps
That’s what the headlines should have read in the case of Evan Scott, a little boy who was adopted – against his natural father’s wishes – and has finally been returned home.