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Is that your cat?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Not being a geek, but I would like to see some visualization of gravitational waves someday. 
That's one hot topic out everywhere.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Yesterday, my gf accidentally left the front door open and one of our cats decided to take a walk. A long walk on what turns out to be the coldest day of the year -- last night, -14F.
Yesterday, the septic backed up. $540 dollars later, we can use the toilet again. Did I say "crappy day?" What a mess to clean up.
Our other cat is throwing up everywhere, time for a vet visit tomorrow and probably another $600.
And the furnace pre-blower sounds like metal on metal, maybe a bearing, maybe something else, but still $$$.
Oil furnaces are sort of useless when it gets this cold. Takes in -14F air and heats it to maybe 50 or 60 degrees. I guess it keeps the pipes from freezing.
So much for any ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) today. I feel like joining my cat (running away or throwing up, can't decide which.)
Marc
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mate, sometimes it seems tough, we miss the forest for the trees though.... you're alive (more or less), you have your health (more or less), you have humour (more or less) .. Im guessing you can still 'put bread on the family table' - so breathe deep, count to 10, 100, 1000, or more if you need, but keep trudging on. You inspire goodness in us 'out here' in CP land, with your work, so dont run away
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: we miss the forest for the trees though
Yeah, I just have to look at google news to appreciate being alive, roof over my head, employed, food on the table.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I feel like joining my cat (running away or throwing up, can't decide which.)
You more or less decided already 
Hope your cat gets well!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Marc Clifton wrote: metal on metal
Anvil - Metal on Metal[^]
That probably won't cheer you up, but it cheered me up.
Despite all your misfortune you made a difference today.
You matter.
You're awesome 
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I feel your pain man.
In a 2 month span, I ended digging up my front yard (for the 2nd time in 11 years) to replace the sewer line to the street ($3,500), replace the garage door I backed into ($1,000), the side door to the garage that just crumbled and needed to be replaced by a custom steel door ($890), oh, and the air conditioner compressor motor controller EXPLODED necessitating replacement of the entire air con system ($3,700).
All of that put off a desperately needed new roof on the house.
...and the wife was laid off from her job two weeks before Christmas. 60% of our income evaporated.
I HATE 2015.
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Ouch! That is truly painful.
Marc
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I hope 2016 turns out a lot better.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Oil furnaces are sort of useless when it gets this cold. Takes in -14F air and heats it to maybe 50 or 60 degrees. I guess it keeps the pipes from freezing.
We heat as much as possible with wood; wood-burning insert with blowers in the fireplace.
Largely, I get the wood for free - much need to cut some of it, split, stack, but, good exercise.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: wood-burning insert with blowers in the fireplace.
The only detractor to the house we just but was that it doesn't have a fireplace. My gf would have liked one.
BTW, we had a cat sighting today. Turns out he seems to be living in a crawlspace (for him, not for me) under the house. So we set up a couple animal traps (not the killing kind!) -- should have done that sooner! -- and hopefully, after the snow and the rain tomorrow, he'll get hungry. Though I couldn't just let him starve tonight -- it's snowing, tomorrow is going to be raining, so I figure he should at least get a meal tonight.
Marc
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It is not clear whet is missing? The girl or the meatballs...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't eat Cheetos...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Apparently programmers prefers teachers[^]
I find lawyers interesting though, it seems white collars and red necks goes together after all.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Apparently programmers prefer teachers
It's the same profession.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Apparently programmers prefers teachers anything female that will talk to them
FTFY!
Obligatory Dilbert[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Experience?
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Ops...My wife not listed...Does it mean I picked the wrong person?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well...you could ask her...but I'd leave it to tomorrow if I was you...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's OK...She doesn't know of Valentine's Day...(I wouldn't either if not for Bob)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What? Clintons Cards, Ferrero Rocher, and the Florist Mafia haven't invaded Israel? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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