Busy times
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 10:58 am by Wally
Let’s do a quick recap of events to Wednesday this week:
- Lot’s of running into town to sit in the Jury Pool room waiting for something to happen. EVERY TIME I forgot to take a book, or grab the work laptop so I could squiz at some code I need to change. In some cases the wait has been hours – with only Oprahhhh or Judge Judy for company. Aaaarrrrggghhhh…. Daytime TV: Gag. Chunder.
- Meeting Monday night – part of a long running saga with a vicious person causing trouble for part of the family, so I was there as observer to write down anything untoward that might happen. Fortunately all quiet on that front.
- Oldest son off on aquatics camp – delivered to school on time. Hooray!
- While oldest son away, intro night at his new High School last night (rush home from town, sit for 30 minutes, then off again). Went way over time, and we were subjected to performances from the school Concert Band (very very good performance of the old Louis Armstring “What a wonderful world”), and the school Rock Band (cringe-makingly awful – I dearly hope they can find the school cat to give its yowl back)
- Numerous trips to the post office (don’t ask)
- SWMBO off today to the union day of action rally. The Comrades doing the occasional protest against Bonsai’s* new workplace laws. For somebody from a conservative rural background she’s taking the union thing fairly seriously. Hardly surprising considering the amount she needed their support in a previous job. (And also considering that under the new laws she would have been done over even worse than before). I’m a piker – and besides, somebody had to take #2 son to school.
- The range-hood over the stove has packed up. It’s not that it stopped working, it’s more that the fan now runs continually at a very very very slow speed whilst making a very very very loud and horrid buzzing noise. Only cure – complete removal (only way to find the power outlet its plugged into). Now there is a large and ugly hole in the kitchen and a pending repair or replacement job…. This and the dishwasher playing up leads me to wonder what other appliance is going to cark it next. Large repair bills coming….
- And that does not include todays minor disaster at work, the running around this morning, the more running around tonight….
No wonder the Dump Family have been tired these last few days.
Oh for a couple of quiet days pretending to be a vegetable.
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* Bonsai = John Howard – because he’s a small Bush. Thanks to David Koch on the last Glass House for that one.