It is grim here right now. It shouldn't be. The weather has changed and we have true autumn. But everything is breaking down. My washer quit draining. There is no use trying to repair it and I have another, so I thought I could simply take out one and install the other. But the connections were old and when I tried to uncouple them, water began spraying everywhere. I finally got that stopped, but I am afraid to touch anything now. Two nights ago when it turned cold, I needed heat. I have a gas heater and the gas had been off in the summer and now it was time to light the pilot. I couldn't figure out how to do that. I did everything the schematics told me to do, but it didn't work. So I spent two grim nights when things should have been lovely fun. Expensive technicians are in the attic right now. They have been for awhile. I thought this would be a simple lighting of the flame, but apparently there is something more expensive going on.
The dryer isn't drying and the dishwasher is leaking at the seams. The floor got wet and the boards are warping. The sprinkler heads are broken. The kitchen faucet has begun to drip. The driveways need mulching. The azaleas (for unknown reasons) are dying. I drink too much.
I tried scanning some of the negatives I shot at the Palin rally, but the scanner isn't working properly. It begins to work and then reports a "serious error." It is an expensive Nikon 9000. I don't know what to do.
But that is only the beginning. I have too many things I must try to fix just now, physical, emotional, mental. I am simply overwhelmed.
This isn't a "me" blog, but I have to explain why this may be slow and go for awhile. Sometimes everything is broken.
In the long run it will all be cool.
ReplyDeleteLong is the opperative word there. The technicians did their job, though, and things did look better when the air topped sixty degrees. Ho!
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