Long weekend and other stuff
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selenayI think that I'm going to wait until I've seen the second part of Doctor Who (which was lovely and scary and had Marshall Lancaster in) before making comments. It's easier to judge a two-parter when you've seen the second part.
We had a bank holiday this weekend, possibly so that we could celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. I don't know, some Canadian holidays are kind of weird. That's why I got a little concerned when my oil tank ran dry on Saturday.
I'm on an automatic top-up plan. This shouldn't happen. Apparently my oil company had me down for a delivery in a couple of weeks, having last delivered in February. Maybe if this had been an abnormally warm spring, like last year, my oil would have held out. Sadly, it's been a cold, wet spring so my heating hasn't been turned off yet. At this rate, my heating may stay on until July.
Unfortunately, I didn't notice that the furnace was no longer doing its thing until around 6.30pm on Saturday when I couldn't quite work out why the temperature in the house had dropped a bit and finally checked the cold, dead furnace. Poor furnace.
As it was a holiday weekend, I assumed that the earliest my oil company would be able to deliver would be today (Tuesday) but I called them anyway to see whether I could get the earliest possible delivery on Tuesday. I was not looking forward to three days with no heat or hot water!
Thus I was rather amazed when the company had a tanker out to me in an hour and someone arrived a couple of hours after that (after I'd changed into my PJs because I didn't know that he was coming) to bleed the lines and get the furnace re-stated. It's hard to be annoyed with the oil company when they give such prompt service on a holiday weekend.
It makes me feel more confident about what would happen in the same situation in, say, January. This is not a country where days without heat and hot water are in any way practical in mid-winter.
The rest of the weekend was fairly uneventful. I read a bit, went on a couple of really long walks (oh, god, my legs!), baked a bit and caught up with a few episodes of Glee. I have a three or four episodes still saved up on my PVR, but it was a bit of a Glee marathon weekend and somehow they managed a run of several episodes with no duds. When Glee is on form it's brilliant. Every now and again, though, it has pretty a bad episode and I wonder why I keep watching.
Then I get an episode like 'Sexy' or the acceptance one that I watched last night and remember why I watch it.
We had a bank holiday this weekend, possibly so that we could celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. I don't know, some Canadian holidays are kind of weird. That's why I got a little concerned when my oil tank ran dry on Saturday.
I'm on an automatic top-up plan. This shouldn't happen. Apparently my oil company had me down for a delivery in a couple of weeks, having last delivered in February. Maybe if this had been an abnormally warm spring, like last year, my oil would have held out. Sadly, it's been a cold, wet spring so my heating hasn't been turned off yet. At this rate, my heating may stay on until July.
Unfortunately, I didn't notice that the furnace was no longer doing its thing until around 6.30pm on Saturday when I couldn't quite work out why the temperature in the house had dropped a bit and finally checked the cold, dead furnace. Poor furnace.
As it was a holiday weekend, I assumed that the earliest my oil company would be able to deliver would be today (Tuesday) but I called them anyway to see whether I could get the earliest possible delivery on Tuesday. I was not looking forward to three days with no heat or hot water!
Thus I was rather amazed when the company had a tanker out to me in an hour and someone arrived a couple of hours after that (after I'd changed into my PJs because I didn't know that he was coming) to bleed the lines and get the furnace re-stated. It's hard to be annoyed with the oil company when they give such prompt service on a holiday weekend.
It makes me feel more confident about what would happen in the same situation in, say, January. This is not a country where days without heat and hot water are in any way practical in mid-winter.
The rest of the weekend was fairly uneventful. I read a bit, went on a couple of really long walks (oh, god, my legs!), baked a bit and caught up with a few episodes of Glee. I have a three or four episodes still saved up on my PVR, but it was a bit of a Glee marathon weekend and somehow they managed a run of several episodes with no duds. When Glee is on form it's brilliant. Every now and again, though, it has pretty a bad episode and I wonder why I keep watching.
Then I get an episode like 'Sexy' or the acceptance one that I watched last night and remember why I watch it.
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