Wednesday Night Musings

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The laundry is done. Now I have to get the faucets back at that “magic point” of dripping so the pipes won’t freeze. All of the crawl space work was finished in a day. I’m now eleven thousand dollars poorer, so please contribute to my Go Fund Yourself account. Kidding, it’s a great thing that a lot of these companies will offer 12-24 months no-interest payment plans for work of this magnitude. And, if they’re gonna give me free money, I’m gonna take it!! What did I get for my 11K (no relation to a 401K)? The crawl space was cleaned out, disinfected (there was some mold down there), a barrier put down, a sump pump in case we have another one of those freak floods like in 2011, a rotted board replaced (ONE??? In a 72-year-old house? That’s pretty stinking amazing if you ask me!), and a dehumidifier. As I mentioned, this is an older house. Much like the house we lived in when I was born, there was (past tense) a big open grate in the “middle” of the house that blew the heat from the furnace under the house throughout the building. That was long replaced by the time I bought the house (it’s all central now), but the furnace is still in the crawl space. As a result, putting the dehumidifier down there and cleaning things up is a preventative measure in more ways than one!!! Today I had my semi-annual dermatologist appointment. He was his usual good humored self, cracking jokes as he pulled four moles off my body. He also cryogenically froze a few spots, prompting me to quip, “You know, you could just hang me out the window for a few seconds and save the cryo.” The Sport, Boat, RV, and Vacation Show opened today. Tomorrow is free admission for military. I haven’t decided if I’ll go or not. I’m certainly not in the mood for an RV: the just-concluded Tampa RV show (one of the biggest, if not the biggest, in the U.S.) had You Tubers talking about the low stock, long wait, and outrageously high prices. I have a 4” memory foam bed in my back seat for sleeping, so what do I need to spend $200,000 on? (Not even the house is costing me that much! ) Anyway, that’s the ramblings of the old hillbilly on this Wednesday night. Hope y’all have a good evening (or morning for those of you outside the U.S.)!! Here’s Elton singing about Wednesday night and other things: