Huckleberry seems to be doing moderately better today - maybe the "just in case" antibiotic the vet gave him on Friday, or the appetite stimulant we've been giving, or Joy giving the pet-pigeon area a thorough cleaning, or some combination? In any case, the vet is having a further test run on th blood sample from Friday.
The team of plumbers showed up bright and early this morning, put in a hard morning's work (both the old water heaters very well and truly sludged up, and refused to drain out the bottom drain ports), and now we're many bucks poorer but once again have a working water heater at each end of the basement, and shiny new water heaters they are!
The plumber recommends flushing them annually, so I've added that to my "sometime every August" list.
Joy's dental problem is partially addressed, and is out of semi-panic mode.
Chipzilla stock is not doing well at all, though for the moment it seems to have settled at a miserable new normal. Just heard from my investment banker (or whatever his title is), wanting to make sure I was OK with that - well, I don't want to sell while it's down like this, now do I? Fortunately, I don't see a need to sell off my remaining shares any time soon; maybe it'll recover, as it has a couple of times over the decades.
Work... well, it's mostly been pondering plus a string of e-mails negotiating what needs implementing and how to go about it. I think the project is stabilizing. I have the new source file started, and the framework kinda-sorta in place.
And, has WWIII officially started yet, or is it still in stealth mode?
Happy first Tuesday in August 2024 to you sir!
WWIII? Doesn't look look it from here this morning but the problems that the UK is having seem to have spread to Ireland, the thing I saw on "X" had the Protestants and Catholics marching together against the invaders (not sure what the best word is for this situation...).
Seeing one thing on a subject doesn't make it so...
How goes the pond out back?
Posted by: Rob | Tuesday, 06 August 2024 at 12:25
Ah, the pond... still low. What with life being chronically busy, we still haven't arranged to have a well drilled - and I don't really want to rely on the well to fill the pond; we're hoping for a decent wet season to do that, and then a well should suffice to keep the level up during the dry season.
It'd be really nice to have a full pond, so we could move the ducks off the lawn and set them up in a proper long-term habitat. (Need to build at least part of the fence while the water is low; I figure to run an anti-coyote fence a little ways into the water, and building that when the water is there could get challenging.)
Posted by: Eric Wilner | Tuesday, 06 August 2024 at 12:58