I was worried for a while there! This morning I did a full backup of the database, and could see all my old posts, so I knew that what I had written wasn’t lost. I didn’t know how hard it would be to get the whole thing running again. Turned out, it wasn’t.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Snow
Now it finally looks like winter again, after all the unseasonably warm weather we’ve had since mid-January. I measured 14 1/2 inches in our front yard in Newton, only half as much as New York City got. The news was saying that this snowfall had surpassed the 1947 snow in New York. I remember waist-deep …
Grouse
Blogging about a grouse, not grousing about a blog. Just to be clear. Up in Casco — I looked up from the jigsaw puzzle of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse that we’ve almost finished (we started it last weekend but couldn’t finish it in one weekend) to see a bird running across the grass (OK, the …
Open the Gates
One of the greatest parts of being in a Jewish choral group is singing psalms in the original language, where they scan the way they’re supposed to and you can feel that, although you don’t have any idea what the tune was in the first place, you’re singing at least words that people sung 2500 …
Techline
Placewares, the former Boston area store chain that specialized in ‘places to put your things’, used to sell a line of furniture called Techline. The pieces all came knocked down, like Ikea stuff, and had to be assembled. They’re nice and sturdy, with a heavy laminate or thick enamel finish over chipboard. We have several …
Tile Saw
I forgot to say, one of the things I did last Sunday was use Matt’s tile saw to cut pieces to finish the hearth overlay for the Maine house. There’s a wood stove, but the brick hearth under it only extends a few inches from the front of the stove. Now, normally you open the …
Ignoring the Super Bowl Weekend
We were in Maine again this weekend. There was a lot of fog going up on Friday evening. We stayed on route 302 through Windham rather than taking the longer but faster but less traveled route through Gray, which had seemed very slow in the fog two weeks ago. The Windham route was still slow …
BBQ
The plant cafeteria had a special superbowl tailgate barbecue lunch yesterday, and I couldn’t resist. It wasn’t at all bad. Besides lots of ribs (and that was after I told the cook, “I’m a small guy, give me a small batch of ribs”) there was cornbread, baked beans, cole slaw, and corn. I would have …
But will I read them?
I jumped out of bed this morning and shaved in cold water, but it was still late by the time I left for work after the plumbers had removed our old water heater. I went to City Hall to pay the real estate tax, and then across the street to the library to return one …
Hot Water
When I got home from klezmer class last night Arlene said, “We have a problem. There’s water in the basement and the hot water heater is broken”. We’ve replaced our water heater twice before in this house. This one turned out to be just under ten years old, and since it was a warrantee replacement …