Gas Log Installed

Elkmont, Alabama

Weather: low 36 degrees, high 45 degrees, cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon

Yesterday was the first official day of winter. For some reason, it seems like we've been in cold weather for the last two months.

This was the first day in several that Carolyn didn't want to go anywhere. Only one problem: she had an appointment for an x-ray that the doctor in Texas ordered as part of her yearly physical. About 1000 hours, we drove in to Athens to the radiology office, where Carolyn spent about 45 minutes doing paper work and getting the X-ray. She said most of the time was spent filling out papers. I guess that's part of the new and improved health care that Congress passed for us this year.

Knowing that Carolyn didn't want to leave home today, I decided to treat her to lunch as a reward for being a good girl. We stopped by Logan's Roadhouse, which was the first time we had been to one of them in several years. We should have gone somewhere else. We ordered hamburgers, and Carolyn's was not cooked like she asked. In other words, it was not killed dead, dead, dead. My hamburger didn't have much taste, and we had to pay extra for fries. It was a disappointing meal.

On the way home, we received a call from the gas company letting us know that they were at the home base ready to install the gas log. We told them we would be there in ten minutes, don't leave. A couple of hours later, the gas log was installed and we had some radiant heat that we can actually feel. A real difference is felt, and it will be even better when we learn to use the gas log to it's potential. It's just in time for more cold weather for Christmas and several days afterward. Snow is also expected on Saturday, but it's uncertain whether there will be enough to call it a white Christmas.

We seemed to run out of energy when the gas folks left, so the next hour or so was spent zoning out. We did more trouble shooting to see why the router wasn't working, but weren't any more successful today than yesterday. Finally, I called Tech Support on the other side of the world where I was able to actually get the router working. Then, I went away from the computer for a couple of hours, only to find that when I went back to use it that the router was not working. Arrrrrgh!!!! What is going on???

I'll deal with it tomorrow.

More later, be safe.

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