Saturday, November 15, 2014

The Sounds of Silence

As usual, it's a mixed bag here in Texas. On the writing front, I got some type-in done for PBOTL. I looked at formatting A-Z2014, but I'my not getting what I want, so I'm going to have to research what I need to do. No additional work on Granite Hill.

I looked out the front door last Sunday, and I was surprised to see a small pond of water in the street in front of the house. We called it in. We didn't see any action Sunday night. Monday, a cone showed up. Tuesday, the "call before you dig" markings and flags appeared. Wednesday, they began digging. By the time we got home from bingo around 9:30pm, road blocks were up, and the backhoe straddled the hole. The leak appears to be fixed, the hole is filled in, and I suppose they're going to let thing settle before the patch the asphalt.

During this time, Mr. L looked into the gas meter hole. With what he saw, he asked me to check the gas bills, because he said there was no way that meter was working. I logged in and checked tonight and traced the readings back over a year before I found a change. This is the problem with paperless billing. I get the email with the amount due. Then I get the email a couple days later that the bill has been paid, and I don't worry too much about it. If I were getting the physical bills, I would have noticed the readings weren't changing. I guess we'll deal with it this week.

The Week Ahead:

  • Work at the shop
  • PBOTL type-in
  • Find out what I need to do in Scrivener to get me what I want in a compiled output.
  • Help Mr. L with his Tuba Christmas meeting on Tuesday night
  • Daphne for her shots

1 comment:

SBB said...

Yeah, you have to stay up with the meters. A small town in Oklahoma had a bunch of meters that went offline for several months, and then suddenly the residents were presented with huge bills.

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