Hate alone is not enough to nourish. But there’s rage too.

everytime the iroomba comes up on woot! i hesitate for a few seconds and the let it sell out while i read reviews and manuals trying to figure out if it’ll be worth while. everytime, that is, until the last time. i bought one during the last woot-off.
i didn’t even own a vacuum so the cost of a vacuum helped me justify the purchase. i suppose most purchasers justify the purchase based on the claim that it will save them time. i cannot make that claim.
when i set the thing up for the first time, i spent 20 minutes perfecting the location of the home base (it fits nicely under my bed). once that task was complete, i pressed the clean button on the remote control and proceeded to watch the robot navigate under and around the 9 legs of my desk and chair and move to the next room bouncing from wall to wall. i probably watched for 40 minutes. hows that for a time saver?
i’m not a super busy person where i can say that i don’t have enough time to sweep my floors and my place isn’t that big so it isn’t a huge production to pull out the broom and clean the floors.
so i guess this is really just a productive form of entertainment for me. the $99 cable package that i pay for but haven’t watched in two months doesn’t clean my floors, just my bank account.

Don’t have much to say. I’m just trying to force myself to post. When we bought this building, there were Landmarks Violations and the mortgage company held back 7.5k in Escrow. I’ve put a fair amount of work into removing those. It can be a frustrating process as the LPC was not very responsive for while. Luckily, though, the violations have been removed and we stand to get that money back. I’d be like the lottery if it wasn’t our own money. More like taxes. Anyway, the money’s pretty much ear (not land) marked for a floor replacement project so it won’t provide much breathing room.

I woke up yesterday morning with the intention of going to the office. I decided against due to weather and the fact that the tasks I had were home-accomplishible (in theory). After an hour or two I started feeling a bit chilly and checked the t-stat which indicated that indeed the temperature had dropped well below the setpoint. The pipes were not warm so I needed to go to the basement and check the furnace.

My first observations were that the circulator was running and the exhaust flue was open meaning it wasn’t a power or controls issue. Then I peaked under the furnace and noticed no pilot light. I followed the isntructions for relighting which confirmed that the gas was still turned on but the pilot wouldn’t remain lit. A friend of mine determinted that the thermocouple might have burned out. This is a device is installed in the path of the pilot flame and senses that there is flame. When it works and feels the heat it allows the pilot valve/flame to stay on. If it doesn’t work or doesn’t feel the heat, the pilot valve is shut so that gas doesn’t build up.

It was a quick fix. I think I went to the hardware store and installed it in about 45 minutes. The heat was back on and it started getting hot in here.
But I think I’ll keep my clothes on.

Oh, even though that was a quick fix, I didn’t accomplish many work tasks.