Breakin’ in the New Shovel

Well the lake effect snow machine (courtesy of Lake Ontario and northwest winds) came through last night giving us about two inches this morning and it is cold...much colder than it has been. Officially as I type this it is 21 degrees out, but factoring in the wind chill and it feels like 9 degrees.

Wasn’t too bad though my thighs now are cold, they tend to get cold and remain cold for awhile. I must have gotten frostbit or something sometime as this happens all the time. Of course wearing nothing but sweatpants, t-shirt and my Laguna Beach pullover sweatshirt, probably could account for that.

Shoveled my drive and walk as well as Mrs. A’s and now Timmy has arrived to take of Elsie’s drive and walk. I need to talk with him as he collects metal on the side and I have that desk from the cellar now in the garage as well as another desk in the garage that I want to get rid of. So I will give him first choice one of these days. My other option is to take it all to the road for trash pickup – but it will never get picked up by the trash guys as the scavengers will grab it first...they always do. They took my couch within an hour or so even though one of the supports was broken as were the legs on one back corner. But it still looked good after 30 years and quality is quality if you want to put an effort into fixing things.

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Well here it is December, November has gone by and so no doubt so has my chance to reconnect with a long lost friend. I tried to keep November free as much as possible as I’d been told that they might be in the area for five days or so, but as far as I know there was no call, though in all honesty on the machine there were a couple of hang-ups when I was away for one overnite – but given the message I left on my machine I would have thought that a message would have been left. I figure my best chance was Thanksgiving week (though I was away part of Tuesday into Wednesday), but as I said no indication that it happened as scheduled, so we wait till spring and maybe then.

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Meanwhile, time to schedule appointments with Sears and get the PM’s done on the washer, refrigerator and treadmill. All under contract till 2009 and all waiting for me to decide when I am going to schedule these things. That plus calling Time Warner and getting Digital Phone installed. At this point the cost of cable, internet and Verizon phone service nearly matches what the cost of All-In-One would cost from Time Warner, plus there is caller id and so forth. So tis time to finally take the plunge I think.