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May 28, 2001 on 7:47 pm | In Main |Worked on a number of small projects around the house today. I took advantage of the cooler weather to clean the air conditioning filters. The barbecue grill is now working, even though I didn’t do anything. Last time I tried to use it, the grill would not heat up, like the gas line or nozzles were partially clogged. When I tried it today, it worked just fine. Had I known that, we would have had a barbecue dinner today. I also cleaned the nozzles for the mist line on the back porch. The mister works great in the hot weather with just one problem. The nozzles have a very small opening to increase the pressure to break the water up into fine droplets. The opening is small enough that the nozzles clog up from the calcium in the water — and we have plenty of calcium. I have a calcium filter on the water line, but it doesn’t seem to make that much of a difference. But, after a soak in some vinegar for a few hours, the mist line works great.
I also went through the piles of paper in my office that seem to build up after just a few weeks. One source of the build up is the new privacy notices that are arriving from all my bank accounts and insurance policies. What I find rude is that if you want to prevent the companies from making money off of selling your information, you have to stamp and address your own envelope to send in the opt-out notice. I bet if the law required the financial companies to get your response to allow them to sell the information in the first place, they would include a postage paid pre-addressed envelope. I ended up getting rid of all of the papers and notices except for two small piles. One is the stack of privacy forms, and the other is the medical bills and insurance information for Sean’s ear tube surgery. I have to figure out if the bill is the correct amount per the insurance company. I’m putting off these two tasks for another day.
Sean and I went for a short swim this evening. It may sound unusual, but with the air temperature around 95 and the water temperature around 85, it was too cold! Part of the reason is the air is so dry, that when you get out of the water, the water evaporates on your skin, cooling you off very quickly. The other reason, of course, is that we were used to air temperatures 10 degrees warmer. After about 10 minutes in the water, Sean’s lower lip was quivering, so I took him inside so that Cortney could give him a warm bath.
The journal archive pages have now been fixed up. All of the links are now working, so it is much easier to get back and forth from the journal, the archives, and my home page. If you haven’t read all of my day entries, now is the time to check it out!
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