I'm still at work waiting for my calibration guy to finish with the optical machine. He recently informed me that he would have to come back tomorrow (after telling me at 6PM that it would only be a couple more hours). I have no idea how late he is planning on staying tonight, but I hope he is ready to go soon (15 hrs and counting for me)!
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The clothes washer made me really happy and stopped working last weekend. Last night I was at the laundrymat; a place I haven't been in forever. I have someone coming in tomorrow to fix the washer, so I didn't do WS's clothes (they get done on Saturdays).
The only bad thing about having a front-loading washer is that they are wicked expensive to fix. I'm hoping it is just the locking sensor and not the on/off button (guess which is more expensive to fix). Guess I'll know tomorrow.
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We have had a georgous week weather-wise. It has been so nice that Mt. Washington has had record warmth the last several days.
Today the summit basked in its fourth straight day of record breaking warmth. The month of October has seen no fog, or even overcast, an aberration at a site that is in the clouds 60% of the time. Today’s high of 62 degrees broke the old October record of 59 set way back in 1938 and fell a mere 10 degrees shy of the all-time record. This all comes on the heels of the Hottest Summer Ever.
Naturally, this weekend it is supposed to cold and rainy - all weekend. And, with great timing, another load of plants and bulbs came in the mail, so I'll get to plant them in the yucky weather.
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If anyone has been trying to get to the KC Open Topic Forum, it is no longer running. The guy that ran it decided not to do so anymore. It would have been nice if we had had some notice, but all we got was a "Site not found" message when we tried to access it this week. There was some good stuff in the archives, but it is lost now. Fortunately, there is an email-based forum that I belong to which is hosted by the NKFC that is still alive and kicking.
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I have finally had a couple of days without any pet-sitting duties (I've been continually busy for about 2 months now). I thought that would give me shorter days, but if today is any indicator, that was a pipe-dream! I don't even get to sleep in tomorrow morning (my Friday off - if I ever get out of here) because the washer repairman is going to call me at 7 AM to set the time for his arrival. Maybe I can take a nap later in the day.
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And that is all my fuzzy brain can come up with to write. It is 10 minutes from my bedtime and I am an hour drive away from my bed. That is not a good combination!
What? You can't sleep under your desk while waiting for the calibration guy to finish? You really need to figure a way of having a better schedule in your life (like, getting a weather forecaster who will cooperate with you horticultural requirements). Good luck for a better-than-expected weekend. *Hoping that the washer repair isn't exhorbitant*
Posted by: Cop Car | October 07, 2005 at 07:42 AM
"KC Open Topic Forum"
Can you google and find your information you want from the cached site?
Posted by: djinn | October 08, 2005 at 11:23 AM
At this point I am thinking more about the new people that would come on the forum with lots of questions.
At some later point, I might want to go back over something I had read there earlier (such as someone's experience participating in researching new treatments), but if I don't know exactly what I'm looking for, then it is hard to form the query in such a manner to get the result I am looking for.
Posted by: bogie | October 09, 2005 at 04:49 AM