JESUS CHRIST WHAT A WAY TO WAKE UP
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snousleFuck. What a morning.
The relative level of whining on this journal has exceeded my standards lately, and I've been meaning to post more LOLUnicorns and flowers and rainbows and shit, but you will have to put up with one more little bit of grief.
A big storm front came in, the first really big rain of the wet season. Yesterday, Bill and I busted our asses all day putting up a 12x20 canvas garage structure before the rain started, and I was bushed.
Six o'clock this morning, the fire alarms all went off AGAIN. They have, on about half a dozen occasions this year, gone off between 3 and 6 AM. I'd thought it was because we'd forgotten to activate one of them, but that does not appear to be the case this time. I was ready to rip every single god-damned one of those things off the ceiling. (They are all interconnected, so when one goes, they ALL go.) We had no users guide or anything - the contractors aren't that sensible - so it took some time to even figure out who the manufacturer was. As it turns out, their web page says: If the unit seems to go into alarm mostly at night, it is probably due to insects.
Insects? We live in a freaking forest!!! FUCK FIREX WITH A BARBED WIRE DILDO!!! I am NOT going to put up with this crap! If you want to know what grouchy means, try blasting me out of bed before dawn with a fire alarm and just SEE how cheerful I am.
But wait, there's more!
Kitsune got spooked, probably more by my own raging than the alarm itself, and jumped her fence and took off. With John away and the sudden change in the weather she has been a bit freaked out to begin with, but normally she's a total porch dog so I was quite beside myself at her disappearance. So we got to go chasing all over the place, in the dark, with ankle-deep mud everywhere. Bill got in the car and found her down the hill on our neighbor's property. Fortunately, their histrionic chihuahuas were still indoors, since they would surely have made for a very expensive Akita-snack had she come across them.
So I now have one damp dog, one extremely muddy bath towel, and a headache that might take another whole pot of coffee to deal with.
This has been quite enough for one morning, thank you very much!
The relative level of whining on this journal has exceeded my standards lately, and I've been meaning to post more LOLUnicorns and flowers and rainbows and shit, but you will have to put up with one more little bit of grief.
A big storm front came in, the first really big rain of the wet season. Yesterday, Bill and I busted our asses all day putting up a 12x20 canvas garage structure before the rain started, and I was bushed.
Six o'clock this morning, the fire alarms all went off AGAIN. They have, on about half a dozen occasions this year, gone off between 3 and 6 AM. I'd thought it was because we'd forgotten to activate one of them, but that does not appear to be the case this time. I was ready to rip every single god-damned one of those things off the ceiling. (They are all interconnected, so when one goes, they ALL go.) We had no users guide or anything - the contractors aren't that sensible - so it took some time to even figure out who the manufacturer was. As it turns out, their web page says: If the unit seems to go into alarm mostly at night, it is probably due to insects.
Insects? We live in a freaking forest!!! FUCK FIREX WITH A BARBED WIRE DILDO!!! I am NOT going to put up with this crap! If you want to know what grouchy means, try blasting me out of bed before dawn with a fire alarm and just SEE how cheerful I am.
But wait, there's more!
Kitsune got spooked, probably more by my own raging than the alarm itself, and jumped her fence and took off. With John away and the sudden change in the weather she has been a bit freaked out to begin with, but normally she's a total porch dog so I was quite beside myself at her disappearance. So we got to go chasing all over the place, in the dark, with ankle-deep mud everywhere. Bill got in the car and found her down the hill on our neighbor's property. Fortunately, their histrionic chihuahuas were still indoors, since they would surely have made for a very expensive Akita-snack had she come across them.
So I now have one damp dog, one extremely muddy bath towel, and a headache that might take another whole pot of coffee to deal with.
This has been quite enough for one morning, thank you very much!
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