Birthday Theo!

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Happy Birthday Rayne!

My dudes, I am on excellent drugs. In addition to otc anti-inflammatories and pain meds, there are muscle relaxers and opiates. This is the closest im going to ever get to laudanum.

Mmmm, good drugs! Enjoy. I hope they do your body right.

It's forced hot water, so we have radiators. The furnace is supposed to circulate hot water through the hot water heater in a separate pipe(s), so that the non-potable radiator water doesn't end up in the good hot water. But the diagnosis is that there's a break somewhere in the pipe(s) and the pressure from the city main is actually driving the pressure (and excess water) back into the furnace, so thence the pressure valve is leaking mightily.

That's probably more than you want to know.

I used 5 cans from the pantry and 2 things from the freezer for meal prep today. I keep planning to bake and end up not getting around to it. Maybe tomorrow or Saturday.

I might meet up with 2 guys from my old workplace for wings tomorrow night. If that comes together, I will make something. I owe one of them a pie. Maybe cookies or banana bread for the other.

oh and got rid of a box of books and a box of hangers and have a bag of stuff to go to mac.

Tomorrow I hope to take two boxes of school supplies to donate to a battered women's shelter.

Go, msbelle!

Our house is a mess, but the only thing I managed to do today was a quick run to the market, which was actually nice because the store was mostly empty. TCG goes back to work tomorrow, and ltc is off until the 2nd. She's coughing and not sleeping right now. So, tomorrow may include a trip to the vet.

Happy belated birthdays!

msbelle, I'm in awe of all of the work you're doing.

It's forced hot water, so we have radiators. The furnace is supposed to circulate hot water through the hot water heater in a separate pipe(s), so that the non-potable radiator water doesn't end up in the good hot water. But the diagnosis is that there's a break somewhere in the pipe(s) and the pressure from the city main is actually driving the pressure (and excess water) back into the furnace, so thence the pressure valve is leaking mightily.

That's probably more than you want to know.

No, that's about what I wanted to know. We had forced hot water at our old house and have steam at this house. Boiler systems are more expensive, generally, to fix than furnaces. We had to replace the whole thing here some years back. Our hot water here is tankless (there's a little tank-looking object by the boiler, but that's a mumblemumble), so for us getting a water heater isn't even an option.

I was going to give you the name and number of our guy, but have been informed that he retired.

Late happy birthdays to yesterday's celebrants!

Today is my grand niece's first birthday. She's having a party here, at my sister's place. Tomorrow she'll have a birthday party at her other grandparents'. Then another at home with local family friends. My niece has said that a) she knows her daughter won't remember a bit of it and b) we've all kept the grand niece and her parents going for a whole year, so we all deserve parties. I like her perspective.

whyyyyyy does my mother have MSNBC on can we not hear about the orange idiot on this lovely morning