Home again, Home again.
Well, I’m back from Colorado. The drive was nice, with good weather. When we got back in, the fishtank was making a terrible noise. Turns out the outboard filter had been emptied of water somehow, so the motor was just spinning and being loud. I filled it back up to prime it, and it started pumping like a champ again. It looks like we had a power outage around here, so that could explain how the pump didn’t have any water in it, its easy for it to get unprimed if its off for a while. But the fish are fine, even though their water was a touch murky.Our heater is STILL broken!! It broke on Monday night, and we called the landlord and told him about it, but when we came in tonight, our house is cold, and the heater is still broken. We have a little space heater though, so our room will be warm, but my hands are numb typing, and the mouse feels like a piece of ice. The computers probably enjoy it though, they like being cold.In our landlord’s defense however, it looks like he did work on the heater, there is a new thermostat, and tommorow morning an electrician and an HVAC guy are coming over. He also replaced our sink faucet, which was dripping, and put in a new sprayer thing.Arg, I just noticed a few other things. The DSL jack got kicked out while he was working on the sink, which is why I wasn’t able to ssh into my computer all week, which hampered my ability to do some of my homework! The computer is fine, but its network connection was down.
Also, the bathroom light doesn’t work! I just had to take a crap using a headlamp. The bulbs are fine (even tried a fresh one to make sure), but it still doesn’t come on. It has a bit of a quirk where in cold weather, it is slow to come on. Like, you flip the switch, and up to a second or two later, you hear a relay flip somewhere, and the lights come on. Its worse when its cold, so maybe without the heater on, it just won’t come on at all. Oh well, I guess I’ll just leave the headlamp by the bathroom door, so people can use it. Hopefully the the heater fixing will fix it, or maybe I can get the electrician tomorrow to take a look at it.
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