So, yes. Another day of tiling ahead, and then some grouting – and stripping the old radiator down. There’s four more days in this week and in those four days I’m hoping to achieve:
– Tiling and grouting complete around sink, bath, shower, toilet and radiator’s locale.
– Woodwork (behind radiator) painted.
– Radiator stripped and repainted.
– Radiator pipework completed and radiator connected.
– Temporary kitchen surfaces up in the…kitchen.
– Pipework run under the floor in the kitchen to connect up lounge radiator, with take off fitted but switched off for kitchen radiator.
With that little lot completed we can call in the gas engineer and get the new boiler fitted; which would mean actually having heating. A blessing of unimaginable proportions. I’m lucky in so far as I don’t have to get up *every* morning at 5ish, which Kathryn does. At least some days I can wait until the weak sunlight has started to filter down; and also I can just sit and wait for the heater to warm up the bathroom (speaking of which…) and for hot water that is truly hot.
So having heating that can take the house up to a reasonable temperature would be really rather nice.
At the moment, the fire in the lounge isn’t really able to make the lounge warm by itself, probably ‘cos that back door doesn’t shut, which is another job that should be (and is) on my list.
So that’s my day planned out, when the shower’s warm I’ll be heading in there. But there’s a trifling issue which is occupying my mind – that of my laptop. A while back firefox became such a pain to use (pausing every page load or scroll or on change of focus for up to 10 seconds) that I switched (albeit temporarily in my head) to IE. IE is awful, it’s stayed awful, and I still think it sucks. However, it does to a greater or lesser extent, work on here. However, now in the list of oddities has arrisen another; the laptop’s started to crash. With fair but not incredible frequency it’ll just lock up completely. Not ctrl-alt-del-able, not power-button-hold-for-offable but solid dead crash. Out with the battery and power cable crashes.
Following this last one we had failed services on startup and Control Panel wouldn’t open… It seems to have ‘settled down again’, but I suspect it’s coming time for a mighty reinstall. I want to try Linux again on here, since I can’t have OS X; which means getting the linux install disk onto a machine with a burner. Since the PC in the lounge is *also* waiting for a reinstall (house has priority!), then that’ll be the Mac (which is currently somewhat of a blank slate, since I got the install to work but it’s not yet got any actual software on there, really. I’ve got Toast, just not installed). So I’m thinking I best get sorting things, and get all the data off here pretty soon otherwise things are likely to suck, in all reality.
Still, that’s where we’re at. Cold, mostly….
