It’s not down to bare shingles, but it’s 100 times better than it was. Thanks, roof shovelin’ guys!
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All Quiet on the Leaking Front
The leaking virtually stopped at some time after 2:00am today. About 20 minutes ago it seemed to be starting again, but it’s quiet now. Please please please stay that way. A contractor is coming to shovel the roof at some time after 10:00am. Please please please let that alleviate the problem for now.
New Song, Barely
Yesterday was a bad day. A very bad day. Water leaking through the picture window, a carbon monoxide detector went off (the device was malfunctioning, but I didn’t know that when the beeping first started), I also had a brief period of feeling really sick just as a little cherry on top.
Somehow in between all of that crap and the related heart attack stress level I managed to have a very productive RPM Challenge day. It was probably that or just go raving mad, screaming at the walls. I recorded three vocals, used a trick to finish the one drum part I had to program, and mixed one song. I lost my ability to make up lyrics about nothing on the spot so for this one I had to find a topic. I found a blog about New England Folklore, and one of the posts was about the ghost that haunts the Mt Washington Hotel. Turns out she was married to the guy who built the building, so she’s not a scary ghost. She knows that would be bad for business.
Insult to Injury
To add winter themed insult to winter injury, it’s snowing.
I tried to make a longer video using iMovie, but I ran the clips through Cinematic first and, while it looks cool, you can’t really tell it’s snowing… which was the whole point.
I am So Sick of Winter
This started at about 8:30 this morning. On Monday I hired a contractor to shovel my roof. Today is Thursday and he hasn’t arrived yet. He probably won’t get here until next week. So much for that. I started calling around to every other contractor under the sun. I spoke to a few people early in the process who all but laughed when I asked if they could get here today. One guy said he could do it tomorrow. Another said he might be able to do it tomorrow. I kept calling around. Eventually I stopped getting answers and just got voice mails. I booked an appointment with the guy who said he could do it tomorrow.
This sucks. I am so seriously sick of this friggin’ winter.
Oh Good, Snow
Last night when I came home from work there was a lot of ice on the driveway. I told myself to get up early today to put out some rock salt before Jen, my love, left for work. Imagine my surprise when there was an inch or so of snow. I was like… really? You are such an asshole, mother nature.
RPM Song #5
So if you take a four bar segment of GarageBand’s drummer, cut it into four individual pieces, and set the fill to maximum, you can almost trick garageband into giving you a drum solo. Almost.
A song about being depressed about winter. Sort of the anthem for all Bostonians these days.
90k
Bought the car in June 2011 and hit 90,000 miles as I pulled into the driveway.
We Know What Ceres Looks Like
Finally, we can say that we know what the Dwarf Planet Ceres looks like! No longer are we only able to view blurry images from Hubble. Now we can see a clear enough image to actually make out surface features!
Click on the image to read the article from which I stole the pic (sorry about that). This is cool. The Dawn probe will be orbiting Ceres in March, and doing actual research in April How fricken cool is that!?
Depressed Deer
There are seven deer in the woods right now. The snow is so deep it comes up to their belly. Their legs are completely buried. They trudge along for a few steps, then stop for a breather. They are all looking kind of depressed, like they are thinking… Enough of this crap.
I hear you, deer. I hear you.
