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  • personalization

    I painted the master bathroom lavender today. That was great fun. It occurs to me that I have never lived any place where the walls weren't white (aside from the paneling in the den), and having come to that realizatio…

  • learning curve

    I learned some things about being a manager this week. One was that I really ought to have everybody's phone number stored in my phone, or at least have a list somewhere at home as well as at work. The big thing, thoug…

  • wonderful world of homeownership, part 6,221

    Native subterranean termites.At least they weren't the Formosan termites which can (rumor has it) eat your whole house in a weekend. And the exterminators could get me on their schedule for today, so they've already don…

  • good day, more or less

    For the moment I have hot water again. If it goes out again in another couple of days I'm replacing the hot water heater; it's too old to sink any more repair bills into.Yesterday morning I took my friend the Brit up on…

  • The wonderful world of home ownership, part 5,273

    I went to take a shower in preparation for a trip to the Louisiana Renaissance Festival with my good friend the Brit last Sunday and discovered I had no hot water.I took a very fast shower. Subsequently, I got my big gu…

  • the wonderful world of homeownership, redux

    Woke up this morning at my usual time, though on Wednesdays I don't have to go to work til noon. I'm glad I got up early, because I found the kitchen flooded; a connection under the sink had sprung a leak. Huzzah.So I …

  • The redbud is almost over blooming, but another tree in the yard is all over white flowers now. I do not know what kind of tree this is; I'm sure Mom told me, more than once, but the name slipped out of my mind and now …

  • Man, I need to go out my own back door more often, now that I have one with a patio and a yard outside it. I hadn't even realized the redbud tree is blooming and has bees all over it. The neighbor's dog barks at me lik…

  • I have a light in my shower! Huzzah. I still have to wait for someone to finish fixing the hole in the wall...something about floating the sheetrock, which is a phrase I do not understand at all. But at least somethin…

  • I'm getting really tired of this bit of taking half the day off work to wait for the contractor who never comes. Today at least the electrician called me to let me know he hasn't forgotten me, but once again there was s…

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