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may you live in interesting mornings
Jul. 13th, 2006 09:07 pma) The degus live in a wire cage with a plastic bottom pan. First they chewed through one of the plastic clips holding the wire top to the plastic bottom. Then, sometime last night, they chewed a hole through the side of the plastic bottom, and escaped into Kylie's room. Fortunately, they are even more docile than domesticated mice, and she was able to recapture them and stick them in the (otherwise vacant) mouse cage.
b) On my way into work, I had an unexpected (and unwelcome) side trip into Lowell, after the automatic tensioner for the serpentine belt (which drives the alternator, power steering pump, cooling pump, etc) blew itself apart. Unfortunately, my regular mechanic is on long term disability. Fortunately, I didn't blow the head gasket this time, and the AAA towing guy found a garage that could deal with me today, and the garage had a loaner vehicle, so it didn't totally suck. And (FWIW) the mechanic said my car's in really good shape for something with 225K miles.
c) Mother-in-law is looking to move into an assisted living place near one of her other daughters (and 3 hours further away from us). She's 77, and not in the prime of her life; in the past year, she's had colon cancer, and broken her leg. She still didn't want the I've-fallen-and-I-can't-get-up alert system, but she did consent to accept a cell phone (on our family plan). On the plus side, she could sell her waterfront condo for a profit, and pay about the same in rent what she's paying now in condo fees, property taxes, parking fees, plowing fees, special condo assessments, etc.
b) On my way into work, I had an unexpected (and unwelcome) side trip into Lowell, after the automatic tensioner for the serpentine belt (which drives the alternator, power steering pump, cooling pump, etc) blew itself apart. Unfortunately, my regular mechanic is on long term disability. Fortunately, I didn't blow the head gasket this time, and the AAA towing guy found a garage that could deal with me today, and the garage had a loaner vehicle, so it didn't totally suck. And (FWIW) the mechanic said my car's in really good shape for something with 225K miles.
c) Mother-in-law is looking to move into an assisted living place near one of her other daughters (and 3 hours further away from us). She's 77, and not in the prime of her life; in the past year, she's had colon cancer, and broken her leg. She still didn't want the I've-fallen-and-I-can't-get-up alert system, but she did consent to accept a cell phone (on our family plan). On the plus side, she could sell her waterfront condo for a profit, and pay about the same in rent what she's paying now in condo fees, property taxes, parking fees, plowing fees, special condo assessments, etc.
