The house has yet to burn down, and now that the electric company has come down to work on the wiring outside of the house, the chances that power surges/drops will cause a fire are now minimal, less than the chances were before this fiasco. It wasn’t our wiring that was screwed up, it was the wiring in the alley that was causing problems. Since they’ve come out, our lights don’t dim Continue reading →

Brilliant. The electrical problems of the weekend have worsened. Worsened so much so that there was the potential for a house fire yesterday afternoon. Mind you, I unplugged quite a bit and shut off more than a few power strips, but I guess that wasn’t enough to keep the insane power fluctuations from wreaking havoc. When I dropped off the rent check yesterday Continue reading →

Random updates: Simon seems to be enjoying himself by reading a lot of on-line comics, poking the cat, and introducing us to Wii games. It is unfortunate that his character was killed Saturday in the DnD game, but his character will be brought back to life at a later date, and he seems to be interested in the new character he has rolled up who will be his first character’s half sister. Continue reading →

They closed the university today at noon, so I scraped some more ice off the van (She’s coated in about an eighth of an inch of ice already.) and drove home. What had been about an inch of slush covered in some new snow is now an inch of slush covered in some new snow covered in a thickening layer of ice. All the branches and trees are absolutely coated with ice, and most every Continue reading →