An update on classes, houses and cars January 15, 2008
Posted by Kurt in : Classes , trackbackI’ve definitely been remiss in updating my blag.
In my defense, I’m taking two classes and dealing with the crush of requests not only from the normal work stuff, but the senrior projects that have started this quarter.
The classes are going well, I just took my midterm in one class a short while ago (I’m actually writing this in lecture, naughty me, while we go over crontab entries which not only do I know, but we went over last class). I have my midterm practical tomorrow night in Routing and Switching. And I’ll have an online midterm in RnS soon too. But, things are going well, and at least moderately interesting.
We just experienced the joy of owning a home last week when part of our roof blew away. Sounds a little more dramatic than it is… A bunch of shingles blew off a patch of the roof. We had it fixed (and if you need a roofer in the Rochester area, I’ve got a good one). Should be done, right? Eh. It seems that the former owner used a… suboptimal roofer to put on the shingles. You can screw up a roof by putting the nails in the shingle in the wrong place. Which they did. The solution? Basically, you do a tearoff and re-shingle. *sigh*. What are the symptoms of this nail misplacement? Shingles blowing off more easily. Ugh.
And I finally got the car door fixed recently. The outside driver’s door handle hadn’t been working. The part should have been a fiddly little 25 cent plastic clip. However, no one will sell you the damn clip. Hyundai makes you buy a whole door handle assembly. Yeah, thanks Hyundai. So the door handle assembly costs $50. Gah. While the car was in, we had it inspected, oil changed, and put the snow tires on the car. So you can’t blame the snow on me. My snow tires are helping to keep the snow away 
On the subject of the roofer, we didn’t have one before, and had no idea who to use. So then I had an idea. We really like the plumber we used to put in our disposal. Very honest, no bullshit. So I called him up and asked him who he would use for a roofing job.
Him: Charlie Howell. 25 years in the business. I just had him put a new roof on my Mom’s house.
Me: Do you like your mom?
Got a good laugh.
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