Musings on a Small Life

It's worse than pulling teeth, I think, to get some meetings scheduled with various departments and my "old" boss. He wants them now, they want them in April, everyone has an excuse...Oy. As if our analysts want to spend the next 3 months pulling data for this annual project. My second jeepers is jeepers, it's COLD! Minus 29 windchill first thing, about minus 20 now. OMC, I hope this is the end of it. Third jeepers is jeepers, physio this morning HURT. LOL. I'm less mobile now, afterward, but that does often happen. I'll see how I am tomorrow and into the weekend. Mobility overall is so much improved, could be lots of factors re: the ongoing pain. But let me tell you, I've got so many exercises to do now, three times a day (twice is what I aim for), that I don't have time to work.  :-) Finally, on the (so far) non-existent counter top...I had emailed the guy earlier in the week with the two days I'll be off in April, but of course he never respond...

Cost $70 for his time and the new outlet, but worth it. I was worried there had been a small fire behind the wall, because last night I could see a smokey grey mark above the outlet, but P said it was just the smoke itself and should scrub off. He removed the old outlet and then showed me how far the up the wire the insulation had melted (not far). He said it happened because of the heating and contracting of the wire when using things like my hairdryer and my electric heater (to warm up the freezing bathroom when I shower). Over time all that expanding and contracting just melted the cover on two of the wires. So it wasn't a faulty wiring (during building) issue. I had asked him if he would test all my outlets for shorts and he said he could, though felt it would be a waste of money. That was before he took out the old outlet and showed me the problem. Now that I've seen what was wrong, I'm less inclined to panic about the rest of the outlets. He did change it to ...