Points of Interest: Tornado Touchdown
10:08 + Scheduled dishwasher repair appt. Phil will not toil forever in the kitchen. 15:05 Tornado went through downtown Minneapolis. Very exciting. Unfortunately I only find out about this after it's...
View ArticleTornado. In Minneapolis. Hit our house?
x-post LJ/Fb--Yes, our house was hit by a tornado. Thirteen years I lived in Kansas, right in Tornado Alley, without a problem, though there were plenty of times that we headed to the cellar when I was...
View ArticlePoints of Interest: Tornado Aftermath
13:27 House hit by tornado. Wrangling insurance, electrician, roofer, tree doctor, fence construction. Recommendations welcome. 13:29 No phone or power, do have gas (for stove and heating) and water....
View ArticleElectricity is a Wonderful Thing
We have power! I am so delighted. Once again, I can enjoy the pleasures of light, TV (and most especially, Dexter, my favorite TV series, the most recent season of which I just got on DVD and started...
View ArticlePoints of Interest: Ze Wire, Eet Does Nuzzink!
18:22 Hooray! We have telephone service again! (Also learned dangling wire in backyard is from no-longer-present cable. Er.).
View ArticleYay Insurance?
Our insurance adjuster has come out and looked at the tornado damage and written a check for the amount we already spent getting the fallen trees taken care of and the power back up. I'm quite glad our...
View Article+/- Money = Fixing Things
- Wrote contractor v. large check to start fixing tornado damage. + Tornado damage will be fixed!.
View ArticleClosing Loops
This Relax Without Feeling Lazy: Kill Open Loops post makes an excellent point, and it brings to the forefront a lot of why I generally feel stressed. I put a lot on myself: writing; photography;...
View ArticleWorking and Waiting for Home Repair Guys
Listening to In Our Time's discussion of Akhenaten, I realize Elizabeth Peters has given me a lifelong fondness for Egyptology. A construction dumpster has manifested in front of our house! This is a...
View ArticleRoofing, Day 1
First roofers are tromping all over my house like the billy goats gruff. Then Homeland Security stops by to investigate the guy across the street. Things are hurtling off the roof. The cats are freaked...
View ArticleNinja Desk Kitten
+ Fu Manchu has discovered he can fit between my keyboard tray and my desk. Small paws attack pens. .
View ArticlePlumbing Problems.
Ugh. And now our bathroom sink has decided to stop draining. At all. Drain cleaner, drain snake, and removing all accessible piping has not fixed it. This means it's plumber time, and--geez, house,...
View ArticleArticle 11
Having dealt with house problems and contractors all afternoon, I'm now looking forward to painful physical therapy exercises this evening. At least then I can just watch TV and not think.
View Article'Tis the Halloween Season
District 9, Zombieland, and Surrogates are all at the cheap rate at Block E. Want movie-watching time! Those wacky Swiss researchers! ping.fm/wlUGb A squirrel just TP'd our tree with a wad of white...
View ArticleSquirrels Sheltering From the Cold
The rain has turned to sleety snow. I wonder if I'll have to go to the dayjob today? (I hate just calling my day job "work" because it implies what I do the rest of the day isn't. Not true.) ----There...
View ArticleHow Long Things Actually Take
As part of my quest to make my life not seem like a never-ending drudge through work and projects that will never truly be finished (that's the problem with being writer, photographer, and...
View ArticlePolitics and Other Good Things
Carl Watts looked from her mushroom-pale skin to the stone-carved words over the door she fled from: "Work Shall Set Ye Free." #nwm #twitfic YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Salvaging...
View ArticleHome Again
++ Delighted to be safely home and online again after visit to internet-free in-laws. - Unexpected luggage additions: niece's DVDs "Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun!" and "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales."...
View ArticleBack Pockets
At work, I always walk around with a pen and a small post-it pad in my back pocket, in case of notes or labels being needed. At home, I'm walking around with a candy cane in my back pocket.I know which...
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