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Post date: Jan 16, 2016 4:08:46 PM
Friday was a mishmash. The electrician came by and swapped a CO/smoke detector in the furnace room for just a smoke detector. Since they are the same brand it was just a matter of twisting off one and twisting on the other. No more false CO alarms.
While he was here I asked if I could pay him for the 2 1/2 days he and his crew spent rewiring the outdoor lighting. (We had a misunderstanding when he suggested I wire things in a different manner than was specified.) He still won’t accept payment for that, even though it was at least half my responsibility. Then I showed and asked him about the Ethernet wiring. He (I think) misunderstood the plans and thought I only wanted telephones. (Why would I specify Category 5 cable and RJ-45 connectors if not for Ethernet?) But since his was a fixed price bid, and that is something that I can do (and have completed for three of the cables) I let it drop. I did show him my $5 Ethernet cable tester, which he admired.
I also checked to see if the conduit for future photovoltaic panels had been closed at the top to keep out rain. It was. While I was on the roof I mopped the floor of the furnace room, which was really muddy. It has cost me about 55￠ per day just to run the fans on the furnace and ERV.
Then I decided to pack up all the basketry and exhibit ceramics to start. I packed a large box and a very large basket full of other baskets. The only obvious baskets still visible are one (woven) trash basket and the Maine pack basket — which is filled with other artifacts, including my Micmac war club.
I never had a garage door before. In New Hampshire we parked outside and plugged in the engine block heater at night. But now, on cold mornings, my north-facing garage door is frozen to the floor. I pulls up with a great lurch, and I’m certain that the weatherstrip on the bottom of the door will split one day. So I consulted the vendor and she said simply, “salt”. So I sprinkled a little salt both inside and outside the door. When I went out this afternoon there was a puddle of water rather than a strip of ice. We’ll see what happens tomorrow, because every night moisture condenses on the inside of the door and freezes around the windows in the door. So there is plenty of water to freeze.
I have a little cloth tube with elastic at both ends. My mother gave me this to store plastic bags, and it works great. However, after 25 years the elastic lost its stretch, so I decided to replace the elastic. I ripped out the seam that held the old elastic. But when I checked my sewing machine, the post that holds the spool of thread had been pushed into the machine. (Actually I don’t need it because I use the industrial cones for black and white thread.) I had to dismantle the machine to push it back out. While I was in there I removed much of the lint that inevitably accumulates over 25 years I’ve owned this very solid Kenmore zig-zag machine.Near the end of the day, when I went out to get a haircut, the barber shop had about eight people waiting! I’ll try again tomorrow or next week.
Also consulted today about cataloging the sheet music for the community chorus and two churches. Since the chorus music is stored in an unheated shed, we are in no hurry. But more than likely we will need to straighten out a (at least minor) mess and label the file cabinets so that someone can find the music from the catalog. We’ll get started early next week by surveying the shed — at least until we are too cold to work any longer. A spreadsheet is a poor substitute for a real relational database system, but nearly everyone has spreadsheet software, so that will have to suffice.
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