Scrub-a-dub-dub...
Aug. 9th, 2001 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI got up this morning and went to the utility room in the back of the house to wash a load of laundry that I brought from Colorado. (Our washer there is dead and part of my mission this trip is to bring back the washer that's here, but I digress...)
No soap. As in: there was no detergent.
I went to the store, bought detergent, came back, and put the cycle in work. Then I transferred the laundry to the dryer and started to look around the place.
It was more crowded than I remember last. That was because much of the stuff salvaged from our flooded storage space was now in evidence at the house. I spied a copy of Anna and the King of Siam, which I had picked up at a garage sale ages ago and had never read. I sat down to read a few pages while the laundry dried.
The book is fascinating... Certainly different from the recent movie starring Jodie Foster and Yun-Fat Chow, which was pretty good. After 100 pages or so, I went to check on the laundry, which had been tumble-drying for a while and found it wet. I checked the lint trap and found enough lint there to make a sweater for Ming, should he ever need one. I removed the lint and restarted the cycle.
When that was done, I drove down to Clear Lake and got a vehicle pass at JSC, and then dropped by the old office to see how things were shaping up. On the way back, I stopped by the Circuit City where I bought the VAIO and despite the fact that they have a policy of not giving out duplicate sales receipts after the fact, I social-engineered my way to getting a copy of something I intend to send to Sony as a copy of the sales receipt.
I got back to the house around 3:45 pm, and started getting ready to get a few hours' sleep in preparation for my first night shift tonight when I got a call from the office: the launch has been scrubbed for today, due to weather. The next attempt will occur tomorrow night, so I am free as the proverbial bird until then.
Lee called earlier and bemoaned the fact that her schedule and mine were opposite, and that we would be lucky to see each other for a few hours this weekend, when she wasn't working. It seems fate has decreed otherwise, and if she gets back early enough tonight from school, we'll have a couple of hours to chat.
In the meantime, I have a couple of small jobs to do, as well as the rest of the ethnographic text that I brought with me. But first, I need to inflict some damage on the herring and Gruyère cheese that are sitting peacefully next to the Shiner Bock beer in the fridge.
Cheers...
No soap. As in: there was no detergent.
I went to the store, bought detergent, came back, and put the cycle in work. Then I transferred the laundry to the dryer and started to look around the place.
It was more crowded than I remember last. That was because much of the stuff salvaged from our flooded storage space was now in evidence at the house. I spied a copy of Anna and the King of Siam, which I had picked up at a garage sale ages ago and had never read. I sat down to read a few pages while the laundry dried.
The book is fascinating... Certainly different from the recent movie starring Jodie Foster and Yun-Fat Chow, which was pretty good. After 100 pages or so, I went to check on the laundry, which had been tumble-drying for a while and found it wet. I checked the lint trap and found enough lint there to make a sweater for Ming, should he ever need one. I removed the lint and restarted the cycle.
When that was done, I drove down to Clear Lake and got a vehicle pass at JSC, and then dropped by the old office to see how things were shaping up. On the way back, I stopped by the Circuit City where I bought the VAIO and despite the fact that they have a policy of not giving out duplicate sales receipts after the fact, I social-engineered my way to getting a copy of something I intend to send to Sony as a copy of the sales receipt.
I got back to the house around 3:45 pm, and started getting ready to get a few hours' sleep in preparation for my first night shift tonight when I got a call from the office: the launch has been scrubbed for today, due to weather. The next attempt will occur tomorrow night, so I am free as the proverbial bird until then.
Lee called earlier and bemoaned the fact that her schedule and mine were opposite, and that we would be lucky to see each other for a few hours this weekend, when she wasn't working. It seems fate has decreed otherwise, and if she gets back early enough tonight from school, we'll have a couple of hours to chat.
In the meantime, I have a couple of small jobs to do, as well as the rest of the ethnographic text that I brought with me. But first, I need to inflict some damage on the herring and Gruyère cheese that are sitting peacefully next to the Shiner Bock beer in the fridge.
Cheers...
