Archive for November, 2007

Yeah.  I got busted.  I’m pissed.  Not because I have to pay $141.00, but because I got caught. :p

Up till a few days ago, my brother’s place had no heat because the boiler wasn’t hooked up to the radiators in the house. We had those portable heaters plugged in every room in the house.

This was also the case last winter – and my brother was determined not to maintain the status quo going through the second winter. So on tuesday, he started hooking up the boiler to the radiators.

There was an amazing amount of piping to hook up. Each radiator needs two pipes, for the outgoing and return flow. At the end of the day, it resembled some sort of gigantic plastic and copper octopus.

We threw the switch and fired up the boiler for the first time. And then everything started leaking. Almost all the joints near the boiler started leaking. The dining room radiator upstairs sprang a leak.

My dad said not to worry about it. Most leaks eventually seal themselves. Emphasis on “most”.

But sure enough, after an hour or so, the leaks all stopped and after a year and half, the radiators in the house warmed up for the first time.

I found my brother in the dining room. He was absolutely stunned that it all worked. “A year of putting together plumbing and various electronic parts, hundreds of different parts, and it all just works?!”

I should blog more regularly.

I get up every morning during the week, get dressed, have breakfast, pack my bag and walk over to the coffee house to start my day at work.

It never fails that a hour after I get to the coffee house, I have to poop.  Why can’t I do it at home? I have to worry about someone stealing my laptop while I’m in the bathroom.

I could bring the laptop with me into the bathroom, but since EVERYONE there leaves their laptops sitting there while they go out and have a smoke, or go use the boys room, or whatever, I’d feel like I’m being a distrustful motherfucker if I toted the laptop into the bathroom with me.  I gotta be harmonious with the community.

I haven’t taken very many pictures since I got here.  Its not like I’m lacking in subjects, but just lacking in motivation.

I drive a whole lot.  I dont get to walk as much as I’d like to.

Well, thats my story so far.