Its Friday.
1) It looks like I'm going to be offered the job I interviewed for, which is turning out to be unsuitable. I want to help the Daughter with early settlement, but I don't want to have to pay £400 per month and a goodly amount of my waking hours working to do so. I am about to withdraw from this and hope something better comes, with the understanding that this could well have been my best shot and that nothing better may come along. In which case the Daughter is just going to have to tough it out. I'll keep looking, though.
2) My new aquarium is very nice. It's been sitting, filled with water, in the bath for two days to see if it has any leaks. None, so it's now been drained. Everything is assembled (pump, filter, lights) and now we are going out on yet another hunt for a suitable table to set it on. There were some possible-but-not-great ones down at the Salvation Army last week, which are probably gone now, but they may have something else. The corys are growing well, so we do need to get something in the next week or two so that the tank can be set up, planted, and be cycling for a good amount of days before we put them in there. Worst case, I'll get some Ikea and reinforce it with solid lumber. But only if I have to, because that always looks kinda janky.
3) I went to open a cabinet drawer in the kitchen this week and the door fell off. Phoned that in. Yesterday the Daughter was baking and noticed that the oven wasn't heating properly. We had thought it might be failing, in the past, so I'd bought an oven thermometer. It took a half-hour to get to 130 and went no higher (thermostat light went out), but we'd set it for 150. Put it up to 180, light came on for a bit and then went out, it was still 130. Put it up to 200 and a half-hour later it was at 150, when went to 180, then back to 150. That explains a lot of the Daughter's "bread fails" over the last month. Checked with a second thermometer at all stages - same result. Phoned it in, but because of the religious holiday/bank holiday nobody can call until next Tuesday. Which will mean they'll come out the following week. There have been so many problems with this cooker that I wish they'd just replace it - it's not exactly a high-end unit. (Her brownies still came out really nicely, though.)
4) It looks like it's going to be a pretty day today. I think we'll go out for a long walk, stop for tea, maybe go to the Botanic Gardens. Must remember to take the antihistimine pills. All the trees are starting to leaf out and many are blooming now. So many pretty flowers out - I love all the daffodils in the road medians.
5) The Daughter has been switched, part of her time at work, to a different set of duties and is much happier. Which is good, as if she's miserable it tends to permeate the house and rub off on me. I just want to have a nice, happy little home, with things to do a few times a week. And for the Daughter to clean up after herself (that's not high on her priority list). Maybe I might like to socialize once and a while, and now that the weather is nice enough I might re-join my walking group. I wish had a little garden to dig around in, but I don't. Just some flower pots on shelves. Which is nice, tho. I basically want a life with no drama. Just a nice quiet, predictable life. Without the threat of the Home Office doing something out of left field looming over our heads. Or Brexit. Or Health Issues. Or the Donald and the "we can't go back because of the impossibility of healthcare costs there and the general insanity erupting." Oh, well. What I've got isn't so bad and if everything was perfect I'd find something to complain about to do with it, anyway. I'm just tired of having to "fix" things. So I think I shall throttle back on that considerably and just let the chips fall.
If you're of the persuasion, Happy Easter!
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