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tiny greenhouses
Monday, May 16 2016
It's been cool enough for me to bring the tomato seedlings in at night (the ones in cans) and to cover the ones I've already planted with upside-down jars (tiny greenhouses). I had to start a fire in the woodstove last night and I started one again tonight. The days have been sunny and pleasant when in the sun, but it's also been windy. Today the wind blew a piece of shingle off a minor roof ridge near the laboratory deck that I will have to replace before the next rain.
I had a rather low-key day in the remote workplace. It began with the deployment of a monitoring script (and then the fixing of that script when it began sending emails every minute reporting a non-existent problem hanks to an accidental semicolon at the end of an if statement). I was finally given access to the live servers, which is a huge uptick in responsibility. Other than that, all I did was explore and document the emailing system, sometimes while watching the latest episode of Game of Thrones. It turns out that I can multitask that with non-demanding parts of my day job.
I've had a sore throat almost constantly since getting back from Los Angeles, and this evening it got just a little bit worse. I hope I don't have a condition that will require medical attention before June 1st. Gretchen and I optimistically let our Obamacare lapse at the end of April and are uninsured until the insurance from my new job becomes valid on that day.
In other news, there is now a bidding war on the big brick Victorian mansion we looked at on Saturday, and Gretchen and I raised our offer to $275,000. I kind of hope we don't succeed in getting it.
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