We opened a ticket with the home warranty people last week. We generally have good luck with home warranty people, though many have nightmare stories. How it works with this particular company: you have a problem, you check to see if the home warranty will cover it, you put in a request … to the people who work for you … to see if they’ll do the thing you pay them for. And then they approve.
An email link comes back. You’re approved! And this company will send a highly trained professional well equipped in the trade will come out and examine your problem, make several deeply intimidating noises as it relates to the issue, criticizes the anonymous person or people who did or didn’t do the things that led to it, and then show you what a career spent in the industry means for creating the appropriately deft maneuvers required with their hands and tools. And what day would you like them to come?
Their system lets you pick three dates, and the general time of dya. So rank order them, which day is best? And why are afternoons always ideal? I selected this Tuesday afternoon, yesterday afternoon and this afternoon as my preferred choices. That way, I could sit here and grade, and do other fun things at home, while I waited for someone to pull up the drive. And I bet you can tell where this little story is going now.
We generally have good luck with home warranty people. Contractors, however. Hit or … what’s that other word?
I’m getting low on photos from our last SCUBA diving trip. This means that, next week, I’ll have to switch over to more SCUBA diving videos.
The things I do for you people.
The things I did for me: several decades ago I took a SCUBA diving certification course. Later, I talked my then-girlfriend into getting certified, as well. Then I purchased the SeaLife Micro 2.0 camera off eBay. Then I boarded a plane and flew to another country, where I endured pleasant temperatures in January and allergies so I could go diving, which allowed me to take this photograph.
She’s perfect in it, but the phone could be a bit better so, ya know, we’ll need to go diving again. Darn the luck.
Some photography simply needs to be improved on. Some are good enough to see variations of, over and over. Like another shot of Jennifer, the turtle.
Don’t worry, we’ll see a bit more of the turtle before we wrap up the photos. Jennifer the turtle is a star.
This was one of the views I had on my late night bike ride last night. Alone, it is of no significance. But when you put it all together, it means just a little more. Somewhere, right in this portion of the ride, I set a nice personal best.
It means nothing, really, this personal best, but my spreadsheet likes it. One of the pages on the cycling spreadsheet, there are several pages, is titled “Monthly Marks.” On this page I rank each month by the highest mileage. My top months, all time:
10. July, 2018
9. Feb, 2023
8. June, 2011
7. April, 2023
6. July, 2011
5. Jan, 2024
4. May, 2016
3. Jan, 2023
2. Nov, 2023
And right about at that spot above, this month, February 2024, became my all time high mileage month. And it’s a short month! And there’s still a week to go! And my legs feel all of it!
Tomorrow, we’ll start an entirely new experience on the site. I’ve no idea what it’ll look like yet, but it’ll be interesting, and probably too long by half. Come back to enjoy it all!
