What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?
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- Elizabeth Barrette (
ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Good News
What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?
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Doing Things on Time
Apparently people are bad at estimating how long things will take and then getting them done. We might want to stop calling it a disorder and just…
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Managed Retreat
I'm pleased to see someone else admitting that not all cities can stay where they are. This article gives several examples of how cities could adapt…
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Conformity
Here's an article about conformity and evil. Now, we know that most humans are contextual and that evil spreads readily. But it leaves out…
October 21 2020, 08:28:14 UTC 8 months ago
For starters, I'm done with the long list of house maintenance/repair projects that I knew needed to be done before winter arrived this year. (These are the chores that I had to hire professionals to do.)
Here they are:
I had the crawlspace of our house lined and waterproofed.
Two sump pumps were installed in the crawlspace.
I hired an electrician to do the wiring for the sump pumps, install a reset button, and then hook it up into the breaker panel.
I had some plumbing repair done in the crawlspace after the fellow who'd lined the crawlspace told me about the problem and showed me pictures.
I hired a contractor to build us a new sewer line to replace our non-functional septic tank/septic field. (The bill for this alone was 10K.)
And I just got a fellow in to replace/repair our dryer ductwork. (It was a nasty job. The poor guy had to crawl around in our crawlspace to do the repairs and replacement, so it wasn't a quick repair. He also put a cap on the exhaust opening so that rodents couldn't use it to get into the walls of our house.)
My own fall chores are well begun: A kitchen deep-clean.
I've finished cleaning out three of the four wall cabinets and I washed and replaced all the dishes that were in them.
Our late summer drought has finally broken. We had a weather system figure out where we are and it arrived at sunset yesterday and it's still raining.
:^)
Yay!
October 21 2020, 08:41:04 UTC 8 months ago
It's raining here too, has been for a couple days. The first was just drizzle, but tonight it really stormed for a few hours. :D
Re: Yay!
October 21 2020, 18:41:27 UTC 8 months ago
:^)