Fridge Sage Update
Dec. 18th, 2019 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydionThe guy who fixed my dishwasher last year can’t come until after Christmas. The more expensive people can come Friday.
When I told them yes, I thought I had the money in the account, but I had forgotten I’d spent all but the auto withdraw plus fees getting the 30 Gallon cover and some food earlier in the week.
If I knew the fridge was dying I wouldn’t have bought the stuff for the fish move.
The twenty test is going well, by the way. There had been massive die back since the sup lights weren’t strong enough to keep the plants alive. This alarmingly thin and fragile light strip has already doubled the size of the plant babies and the surviving longer strands are growing and healthy. It doesn’t prove the 30 gallon strip will work even though it’s not ideal, but I’m starting to have faith it will keep enough elogia alive to keep the fry mortality low.
Current plan is to move at least one tank over next week.
Anyway, Squirrel’s job situation is stabilized for now, and theoretically he will get back pay. The issue was, he could stretch to cover the cheaper estimate, but the higher price I greed to with repair people number two was... dicey. We can’t guess in advance price for parts or whether it ends up being a one hour or half hour fix.
I was at the do they take credit cards and can I scrape enough tail ends together to make it work if it’s high end of estimate instead f low point.
But IT”S OKAY! A friend sent enough in the night so that we should be fine even in what I expect to be worse case.
The freezer is less than ideal, but at full blast has started making ice again. The real issue is the refrigerator half is only just below room temperature. I bought some ice today in hopes of saving the heartier perishables, but I’m not sanguine. The vegetable drawer had gone from edible to slime already.
I need to see if the extra insurance the City made me buy for the renovations covers any of this at all. (Thank you reader who pointed out it might. I need to check as the policy was bare minimum since I really couldn’t afford it at all, but it was worth it for the getting the city to fix nearly all the things).
I have had next to no sleep because the phone kept waking be with a hearty mix of things I needed to know and assholes. I would have had five hours at absolute best, and I forget how many phone call there were, but it was in the five to six range.
I really the fuck hate the police/fire charity scam. I hate that they only let me block 25 numbers.
Anyway, I dragged myself out or forage despite the shakes, did the pharmacy/library/bank/gas loop. (I know it sounds like I’m pissing away money, but pharmacy has been free since mid-November and will be to January 1st, and gas was on empty and I know Solstice will need about an 8th tank. Putting ten in means I can drive between now and January 3rd). I need to do a few things, but I’m going to go the fuck to bed right after because I kept falling asleep and having the mouth parts fall out during lungs.
I repeat, It’s Going to be okay.
Tomorrow I have a big HorrorMUSH commitment. Friday is mid-sleep cycle fridge repair and a thing I promised to do with Squirrel. Saturday is baking. Sunday is Solstice. This will mess with my posting schedule.
When I told them yes, I thought I had the money in the account, but I had forgotten I’d spent all but the auto withdraw plus fees getting the 30 Gallon cover and some food earlier in the week.
If I knew the fridge was dying I wouldn’t have bought the stuff for the fish move.
The twenty test is going well, by the way. There had been massive die back since the sup lights weren’t strong enough to keep the plants alive. This alarmingly thin and fragile light strip has already doubled the size of the plant babies and the surviving longer strands are growing and healthy. It doesn’t prove the 30 gallon strip will work even though it’s not ideal, but I’m starting to have faith it will keep enough elogia alive to keep the fry mortality low.
Current plan is to move at least one tank over next week.
Anyway, Squirrel’s job situation is stabilized for now, and theoretically he will get back pay. The issue was, he could stretch to cover the cheaper estimate, but the higher price I greed to with repair people number two was... dicey. We can’t guess in advance price for parts or whether it ends up being a one hour or half hour fix.
I was at the do they take credit cards and can I scrape enough tail ends together to make it work if it’s high end of estimate instead f low point.
But IT”S OKAY! A friend sent enough in the night so that we should be fine even in what I expect to be worse case.
The freezer is less than ideal, but at full blast has started making ice again. The real issue is the refrigerator half is only just below room temperature. I bought some ice today in hopes of saving the heartier perishables, but I’m not sanguine. The vegetable drawer had gone from edible to slime already.
I need to see if the extra insurance the City made me buy for the renovations covers any of this at all. (Thank you reader who pointed out it might. I need to check as the policy was bare minimum since I really couldn’t afford it at all, but it was worth it for the getting the city to fix nearly all the things).
I have had next to no sleep because the phone kept waking be with a hearty mix of things I needed to know and assholes. I would have had five hours at absolute best, and I forget how many phone call there were, but it was in the five to six range.
I really the fuck hate the police/fire charity scam. I hate that they only let me block 25 numbers.
Anyway, I dragged myself out or forage despite the shakes, did the pharmacy/library/bank/gas loop. (I know it sounds like I’m pissing away money, but pharmacy has been free since mid-November and will be to January 1st, and gas was on empty and I know Solstice will need about an 8th tank. Putting ten in means I can drive between now and January 3rd). I need to do a few things, but I’m going to go the fuck to bed right after because I kept falling asleep and having the mouth parts fall out during lungs.
I repeat, It’s Going to be okay.
Tomorrow I have a big HorrorMUSH commitment. Friday is mid-sleep cycle fridge repair and a thing I promised to do with Squirrel. Saturday is baking. Sunday is Solstice. This will mess with my posting schedule.