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Did not look at light fixtures because no available vehicles. Ah well. Instead, we watched Veronica Mars and ate spaghetti and then went for a walk to get ice cream and admire the burnt-out building (I had the apple-pie ice cream in a sugar cone). Tilde very excited about the walk -- she hasn't been getting a lot of exercise lately.

Thursday's report:

Today, I fed the hooligans ham and cheese quiche and Caesar salad. There really wasn't enough. And someone from my family had scarfed the chocolate cake I was saving for David.

The hooligans are working on/ will work on:
- arch on the first floor
- mortaring the holes in the brick where previous owner had put vents, etc.
- placing the holes in the second floor for toilet and sink
- shims on the chimney so that the walls look straight
- second sort-of 'pass-through' on the 2nd floor has had its opening made
- removing the extraneous cold water pipe, which--David thinks--has a cut-off
- rafter ties on the 3rd floor
- drywall against the spindle on the 1st floor stairs.

R, as discussed stained glass beside pass-through OK. No ritual supuko. To check: 16 1/2" wide by 19" tall.

J, who is taking a day off, will provide cheques tomorrow--maybe she's afraid John will run off with the house fortune.

David still has nasty scar from wasp sting from wasps' nest at House, which has since been destroyed.

We will be away through tomorrow 10:30 until Monday morning. Stuff to do is on white board.

Cheers, H

Dropped by city hall this morning on my way to work. Permit is still in the hands of the zoning inspector. *eek*

Today I hope to be productive.

My semi-crazy colleague apparently decided not to renew her contract. My boss knew and I guess the office manager knew, but the rest of us were left to speculate about the empty name-plate on her door. Would've been nice if she'd said goodbye. Shame -- when she wasn't being crazy, we got on well.

thoughts from the streetcar

After I finish the Sudoku in the morning, I occasionally read the newspaper that comes with it.

I am liking our new Governor-General. (And how awesome is it that her 6-year-old daughter demanded a new dog before she'd agree to up stakes and move to Ottawa? I wonder what kind they'll get?) I hope she does well.

I'm meh on the Senate appointments. (BTW, if Larry Campbell quit as mayor of Vancouver, what makes him think the Senate is going to be any better?) Really, who cares? A few of them do something useful, and some good things have come out of Senate commissions, but I am thinking more and more strongly that it's time we got rid of the appointed Senate, constitutional nightmare or not. It's a crazy anachronism.

Shut up, Stephen. Actually, I'd be very happy if some government made transit passes tax-deductible -- the PQ was all set to do that before the last Quebec election, then the Liberals canned the program, which I thought was dumb. But the TTC needs a hell of a lot more -- like, oh, financial support from Ontario, Ottawa, or both.

*sigh*

If you ever want to drive me completely crackers, do the following:

1. Omit to do something that needs to be done.
2. Listen carefully while I ask you to do it and explain why, as a general rule, it needs to be done. Nod brightly and tell me you understand now.
3. Correct the problem.
4. The next time you work on the same task, omit the same damn thing.*
5. Go to step 2.

AAAAAGH!

*Double your pleasure, double your fun: do it right about 50% of the time, but randomly.

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via makinglight: Sometimes Snopes.com gets unanswerable questions. Warning: This page is almost impossible to read without laughing.

A sample:

If you sneeze and get into an accident, are you still at fault? Are there any laws?

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Is the government really as controlling and secretive as books make them out to be? Are there really tons and tons of secret spies all over the world?

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I would like to know what does work and what does not work for getting rid of 'hickeys.' Such as the cold spoon trick, toothpaste trick, etc.

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Is it true that you are more likely to die from a champagne cork than a poisonous spider?