This evening and tomorrow

[beowabbit]

Lovely dinner with zzbottom tonight at East Coast Grill. I’d never eaten there before; the food was really good. It was great to get a chance to catch up with zzbottom!

Tomorrow I get to get up way too early to let the plumber in to fix the furnace. I’m taking the day off work for that and to get the house ready for docorion and myself ready for Arisia, both of which I am tremendously looking forward to. So time to sleep now. Wow! A post by me that didn’t go on for pages and pages!

Oh, I didn’t hear much about the inauguration, but I did hear something about how Bush said the trains were going to run on time. Kinda hard to believe, but I guess history will be the judge.

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[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Forget your </a> tag?

[beowabbit]

Thanks; fixed.

[cathijosephine.livejournal.com]

A working furnace? Woo hoo!

I am very excited to see you this weekend, sweetie!

[beowabbit]

I’m very excited to see you, too!

Now if only I had a working waterbed, too. You may notice I’m up awfully early. That’s partly because it was chilly in bed, which never happens. Turns out the heater isn’t working. Dunno why, and I’m not going to have a chance to do anything about it until after Arisia, which really means the following weekend.

Waterbeds without heaters, not so fun. I may just drain it and put a futon in there until I can deal with it.

[beowabbit]

Oh, and out of curiosity, why were you up so early?

[cathijosephine.livejournal.com]

With the drug weirdness I never know if I'm going to need more sleep or less, so I've been going to bed really early. I think Jim and I went to bed around 9:30 or so. I woke up around four, tried to go back to sleep for a while then gave up and puttered around on the 'puter. I did go back to sleep around six, though.

No, I imagine a cold waterbed would not be very much fun. And a waterbed as large as yours would require quite the group to heat it up. I don't think the two of us could manage on our own.

[beowabbit]

And a waterbed as large as yours would require quite the group to heat it up. I don't think the two of us could manage on our own.

Good thing we know lots of friends, then!

Actually, it appears that the light that's supposed to come on when the heater is working is just busted. And the cable may have been a bit loose last night, which would explain why it was cold in the wee hours of the morning, but it’s definitely working now, even though the little flickery light isn’t flickering any more.

And I now seem to have a working boiler! Yay! Hopefully the house will not be utterly frozen when docorion and I return on Sunday.

I still think we should see if we can get together enough people to warm up the waterbed, though. You know, just for the sake of Science.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

The trains run on time? Not bloody likely. Bush may be fascist but he is hardly an efficient or competent one (unlike Mussolini). Besides, Republicans have been itching to kill Amtrak for years. Now's their chance. More likely that the trains (and much else) will cease to run.

[beowabbit]

(Actually, my understanding is that “but at least the trains run on time” was sarcastic — under Fascism, the trains never ran on time.)

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Could be. My understanding of the phrase was that the fascists substituted economic security for political freedom. Why worry about such trivia as liberty when the economy is doing so well? At least in Germany, the Nazis did make a lot of economic progress at first (of course, this was after the debacle of the Weimar Republic and its hyperinflation). I really don't know what the Italian experience was.