bored comas, hotwater heaters, etc.

Oh my bored coma god.
Took today off of work - insomnia, plus, sometimes I know that I need to . . .hmmm. . . good to have a little break from the students (or they from me probably).
Took 1/2 hour to type up the lesson plan, hopefully the sub. had no troubles. I'll find out tomorrow.
Went for a long long bike ride, up the usual big UBC hill. Good times.
Too
much
time
alone.
So, bored coma.
No hot water in the building again. The 80-year-old landlady is away and the owner was simply not answering numerous calls.
I live in an old mansion divided into 12 suites.
I knock on a few doors.
"Do you notice we only have lukewarm water?" ask I.
"Yeah, I've been heating it up in a kettle."
"Were you going to call the owner?" I ask.
"Oh, I guess."
Oy.
We've just had a hot water heater put in so I figured it was under warranty.
I call the hot water heater company, the guy comes over within the hour and fixes it. So I think it's fixed.
I've left another message with the owner, telling her the situation and asking for a bit of a rent break this coming month. Don't know if I'll get it, but I figure two days without hot water and my effort is worth something.
I should have done a test to see how long the other tenants would have put up with no hot water.
It was seemingly an easy job too as it took only about 1/2 hour to fix.
Oy.
So, you see, there is something to be said for my obsessive nature. It may, in general, be kinda wrecking my, well, life but it also got me to fix the water problem.
In other news, I've broken the blinds in my wee living room. They now won't go up.
Is this not fascinating stuff? I'm telling you, bored coma.
Work, for all its workness, is a social outlet of sorts.
Hmmm.
Roma is right now in San Francisco meeting and greeting her two new grandchildren from Ethiopia. Their names escape me. She'll be back up next week and so will her daughter, hubby and kids. All are going to live with her, her partner and her grandson that she is raising. I expect those two new wee grandkids to be feeding the crows with her almost immediately.
Excellent.

Excellent writers

I just went to hear Joan Barfoot and Miriam Toews read and speak tonight. Excellent, excellent writers.
Inspiring and the like.

I'm thinking of

starting up the blog again.
Any of the wee fan base still out there?