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Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Surprises galore
Surprises are supposedly good things. Or so I’ve heard. Not so much if you ask me.
I looked closely in the calendar today and was stunned to discover that it is already half-February. When? Why? Where January went?! I mean, it was New Year just a week ago, wasn’t it?
Ah, well. They say time flows faster with age. Guess it must be true. It also means I’m getting older. Or – there could be something wrong with the time-flow. I think I prefer the last.
More surprises – last Wednesday early in the morning I had the most pleasant dream about tropical forests, orchids, butterflies and rainbow-adorned rainfalls. I woke up and groggily realized that I can, indeed, hear rain.
Good, I thought to myself, that irksome, cold snow is finally melting away.
Go spring, I also thought.
Then I looked out the window and discovered my mistake – it was actually snowing.
So what about the rain, you might ask. So did I on my way to kitchen.
I opened the door, and mystery in the form of exploded hot-water boiler revealed itself. Very nervous cat bolted out of the disaster area, leaving me to deal with the current failure of benefits of civilization.
The boiler had lost its top cover in the blow, and, since nothing was keeping it confined now, water was merrily leaking on the floor – to a great joy of my down-stair neighbours. Despite apparent malfunction, the poor thing didn’t want to admit defeat – it was still trying to warm some water on its cheerful way downstairs. Must approve the diligence of modern technologies.
Best part, IMO, was reaction of some pro people I called in my perplexity. See, two different people who work with such things as boilers and drainage systems both told me that a boiler simply can not explode the way it did – given the circumstances. Story of my life. Someone tells me a thing cannot possibly happen, and you might as well place a bet that it will happen. To me. It’s fun, actually, but quite exhausting from time to time.
Well, end is good, all is good. The guaranty people after much talking from their part and lots eyelash batting from mine, gave me a brand new boiler. Small downside – it’s exactly the same as the old one. One can hope they are not prone to explosions as a brand.
In conclusion I’d like to point out once again – I do not like this particular kind of surprises. Please, take notice and kindly stop sending them to me if you, dear reader, happen to be a soft hearted and good willed deity from up there.
End report.
I looked closely in the calendar today and was stunned to discover that it is already half-February. When? Why? Where January went?! I mean, it was New Year just a week ago, wasn’t it?
Ah, well. They say time flows faster with age. Guess it must be true. It also means I’m getting older. Or – there could be something wrong with the time-flow. I think I prefer the last.
More surprises – last Wednesday early in the morning I had the most pleasant dream about tropical forests, orchids, butterflies and rainbow-adorned rainfalls. I woke up and groggily realized that I can, indeed, hear rain.
Good, I thought to myself, that irksome, cold snow is finally melting away.
Go spring, I also thought.
Then I looked out the window and discovered my mistake – it was actually snowing.
So what about the rain, you might ask. So did I on my way to kitchen.
I opened the door, and mystery in the form of exploded hot-water boiler revealed itself. Very nervous cat bolted out of the disaster area, leaving me to deal with the current failure of benefits of civilization.
The boiler had lost its top cover in the blow, and, since nothing was keeping it confined now, water was merrily leaking on the floor – to a great joy of my down-stair neighbours. Despite apparent malfunction, the poor thing didn’t want to admit defeat – it was still trying to warm some water on its cheerful way downstairs. Must approve the diligence of modern technologies.
Best part, IMO, was reaction of some pro people I called in my perplexity. See, two different people who work with such things as boilers and drainage systems both told me that a boiler simply can not explode the way it did – given the circumstances. Story of my life. Someone tells me a thing cannot possibly happen, and you might as well place a bet that it will happen. To me. It’s fun, actually, but quite exhausting from time to time.
Well, end is good, all is good. The guaranty people after much talking from their part and lots eyelash batting from mine, gave me a brand new boiler. Small downside – it’s exactly the same as the old one. One can hope they are not prone to explosions as a brand.
In conclusion I’d like to point out once again – I do not like this particular kind of surprises. Please, take notice and kindly stop sending them to me if you, dear reader, happen to be a soft hearted and good willed deity from up there.
End report.
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Sleep rant
They say the truth about a person can be seen in their eyes. It should also mean that you can see the truth about yourself while looking in the mirror. Well, what I saw this morning made me pretty nervous. Tired, sleepy, pale person with no spark in her eyes looked at me solemnly. Insomnia muchly sucks, all the more when you can’t figure out why you’ve got it in the first place.
I’m tired of tossing and turning until 4am, and then having unpleasant dreams for the remaining 3 hours of sleep, and I hate not being able to drag myself out of the bed on time for the work. I hope it’s just the stress but if it doesn’t end in a couple of days I’ll start to suspect there’s something wrong with me.
Life sucks right now.
I’m tired of tossing and turning until 4am, and then having unpleasant dreams for the remaining 3 hours of sleep, and I hate not being able to drag myself out of the bed on time for the work. I hope it’s just the stress but if it doesn’t end in a couple of days I’ll start to suspect there’s something wrong with me.
Life sucks right now.
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The woe your name is footware
So, yeah, I'm looking for new shoes. Tough luck so far. Suspect sudden infectious stupidity epidemy among shoe designers. Never thought footwear could look as ridiculous as this season.
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On other topics - summer's over. [In case you did not notice or are from other side of the Earth.] It's sad. Still can leave house without a hat but have a feeling it will come to end any day soon. And then it'll be long, dark, cold winter. Hate winter.
I've figured out a perfect way for the change of seasons in my mind. There should be average 24/7 temperature of +25 from the middle of May until the end of October. And it should rain 3 times a week at nights. Then temperature should dramatically drop to average +18 until the third week of December. Then - wham! - it's suddenly average -3 and it's snowing until the New Year's Eve with a few backdrops in the first week of January. It stops snowing altogether on the second week of January. And then it goes back to spring, everything starts blooming and growing, and it's +18 again. And life's good. I think it's a reasonable solution. Too bad nobody up there gave any consideration to my ingenious idea.
Anyone knows how I can contact them?
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On other topics - summer's over. [In case you did not notice or are from other side of the Earth.] It's sad. Still can leave house without a hat but have a feeling it will come to end any day soon. And then it'll be long, dark, cold winter. Hate winter.
I've figured out a perfect way for the change of seasons in my mind. There should be average 24/7 temperature of +25 from the middle of May until the end of October. And it should rain 3 times a week at nights. Then temperature should dramatically drop to average +18 until the third week of December. Then - wham! - it's suddenly average -3 and it's snowing until the New Year's Eve with a few backdrops in the first week of January. It stops snowing altogether on the second week of January. And then it goes back to spring, everything starts blooming and growing, and it's +18 again. And life's good. I think it's a reasonable solution. Too bad nobody up there gave any consideration to my ingenious idea.
Anyone knows how I can contact them?
Friday, 23 June 2006
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