Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Nothing like Jack Johnson on a cloudy Tuesday when you are just bumming around home for a few hours stuck in your own mind.
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Our furnace seems to have taken ill, so I am sitting at home today waiting for the furnace repairman to come by and look at it. We had a power surge over the weekend, so we suspect that it caused a problem. I went through all of the usual steps of checking the breaker, shutting down the furnace, restarting it, checking the thermostat, et cetera but it simply ignores us and sits there doing nothing. Part of me is apprehensive that the repairman will come by, do exactly what I did, and it will magically work. He'll give me that look of pity that implies he understands, sadly, how many 21st Century males can no longer understand how to work on their modern cars or fix any of their home systems using complex electronics. All one had to do was reverse the polarity on the fusion inducer, sheesh...
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My furniture finally arrived yesterday morning and I spent a number of hours finally organizing my bedroom and all of my stuff still in boxes. Amazing how two bookcases and a dresser can make one's life so much more organized. It was starting to drive me a bit nutty that my room was so messy and cluttered. Layers of stuff had started accumulating in areas, so that to find anything required moving clumps of clothes, wires, books, and various small items. Success in finding an object was rarely guaranteed. Now, I can move about and find stuff easily without stubbing my toes.
And, the furniture is beautiful, more so than I remember when I bought it. Rather pleased by my selections. And the iMac fits perfectly on top of the smaller bookcase, so that I can sit (or lounge) on my bed and watch movies comfortably whenever I want. Far better than having a TV in our living room.
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Last night, Sarah came over to claim the old bookcase I found off Craigslist a couple weeks ago and that was just replaced by the new bookcases. On her way here, she happened to run into two old Reedie friends that I had not seen in years, Alyx and Kyla, which she brought over to visit. Kyla and I did a rock climbing class with Doug Ironside our first semester at Reed and then hung out a great deal afterwards as we made our way through freshman year. I remember sitting on her floor writing a Hum 110 paper while she and her roommate Sarah worked on theirs. Alyx lived just down the hall in the same dorm, so we saw each other rather regularly too. Was quite a treat as Kyla has been down in the Southern Hemisphere doing research off the coast of Antarctica for a while, so I never realistically expected to see her again. I heard she was looking for more research work but in the northeast this time, but it seems she decided to visit PDX first. Always nice to see more of old Reedie friends.
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Woke up early on Sunday and decided to hike Mt. Defiance in the Gorge. For some reason, early May and a heavy snowfall this year in Oregon did not equate in my mind to there being a great deal of snow on a 5000' peak. Um, whoops. More than half of the route was well covered in snow. Some of it rather deep and not compacted at all. Great for coming down as it is far easier on your knees than the normal rocky dirt trail, but just a bit more tiring going up when you had to help break trail with a couple of Mazamas ahead of you. Still got to the top in about three hours, and the views were completely worth it. The entire boulder field was covered in snow, making for an excellent, uncluttered view of the Gorge from up high. Next time, I am bringing gaiters though as my socks were a bit less than dry.
Met a husband and daughter hiking it as well. They were in really good shape and kept my pace the entire way up and down, kudos to them. Seems they do a hiking trip nearly every weekend and the father suggested many hiking trips I might try during my Summer Vacation.
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And, and, and...here we are at the end of the entry and the furnace repairman is still not here. Hmmmm...
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Our furnace seems to have taken ill, so I am sitting at home today waiting for the furnace repairman to come by and look at it. We had a power surge over the weekend, so we suspect that it caused a problem. I went through all of the usual steps of checking the breaker, shutting down the furnace, restarting it, checking the thermostat, et cetera but it simply ignores us and sits there doing nothing. Part of me is apprehensive that the repairman will come by, do exactly what I did, and it will magically work. He'll give me that look of pity that implies he understands, sadly, how many 21st Century males can no longer understand how to work on their modern cars or fix any of their home systems using complex electronics. All one had to do was reverse the polarity on the fusion inducer, sheesh...
...
My furniture finally arrived yesterday morning and I spent a number of hours finally organizing my bedroom and all of my stuff still in boxes. Amazing how two bookcases and a dresser can make one's life so much more organized. It was starting to drive me a bit nutty that my room was so messy and cluttered. Layers of stuff had started accumulating in areas, so that to find anything required moving clumps of clothes, wires, books, and various small items. Success in finding an object was rarely guaranteed. Now, I can move about and find stuff easily without stubbing my toes.
And, the furniture is beautiful, more so than I remember when I bought it. Rather pleased by my selections. And the iMac fits perfectly on top of the smaller bookcase, so that I can sit (or lounge) on my bed and watch movies comfortably whenever I want. Far better than having a TV in our living room.
...
Last night, Sarah came over to claim the old bookcase I found off Craigslist a couple weeks ago and that was just replaced by the new bookcases. On her way here, she happened to run into two old Reedie friends that I had not seen in years, Alyx and Kyla, which she brought over to visit. Kyla and I did a rock climbing class with Doug Ironside our first semester at Reed and then hung out a great deal afterwards as we made our way through freshman year. I remember sitting on her floor writing a Hum 110 paper while she and her roommate Sarah worked on theirs. Alyx lived just down the hall in the same dorm, so we saw each other rather regularly too. Was quite a treat as Kyla has been down in the Southern Hemisphere doing research off the coast of Antarctica for a while, so I never realistically expected to see her again. I heard she was looking for more research work but in the northeast this time, but it seems she decided to visit PDX first. Always nice to see more of old Reedie friends.
...
Woke up early on Sunday and decided to hike Mt. Defiance in the Gorge. For some reason, early May and a heavy snowfall this year in Oregon did not equate in my mind to there being a great deal of snow on a 5000' peak. Um, whoops. More than half of the route was well covered in snow. Some of it rather deep and not compacted at all. Great for coming down as it is far easier on your knees than the normal rocky dirt trail, but just a bit more tiring going up when you had to help break trail with a couple of Mazamas ahead of you. Still got to the top in about three hours, and the views were completely worth it. The entire boulder field was covered in snow, making for an excellent, uncluttered view of the Gorge from up high. Next time, I am bringing gaiters though as my socks were a bit less than dry.
Met a husband and daughter hiking it as well. They were in really good shape and kept my pace the entire way up and down, kudos to them. Seems they do a hiking trip nearly every weekend and the father suggested many hiking trips I might try during my Summer Vacation.
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And, and, and...here we are at the end of the entry and the furnace repairman is still not here. Hmmmm...
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