hiding? me?

First off thanks again to everyone who listened to me freaking out yesterday - decompressing really helped. So Day 2 has kicked off, the team have started ripping up the floor upstairs and I've retreated to my room. I'm calm. No really I am. ;)

Things I'm happy about today:

- I'm one day closer to this being done
- I'm a day closer to having heating
- I got the wirelss network fixed before work started
- my bedroom reconfigures into a comfy bolt-hole

...

oh yeah, and

- there are lots of people who'll help me regain my sanity again at the end of the day when I'm a gibbering wreck

In case you hadn't gathered already, I'm finding this all just a little stressful.

splosh...

I should have taken bets on how long these guys would be in before one of them asked "so which joker put this plumbing in?" The man who converted my house from the shop it used to be was a gap-toothed psychopath and every time I or anyone else work on the place, half the job involves unravelling his "workmanship".

so, 'round 11am today the team who are installing my new hot water and central heating system got to the stage of starting to pull out the old immersion tank, turned the water off at the mains, disconnected the pipes, isolated it with its stop-cock, turned the mains back on and nearly flooded my house. Surprise surprise, Cruickshank's plumbing sucks just as badly as the rest of his work...

*sigh*

battening down the hatches

so the house is almost ready for the arrival of the heating engineers tomorrow - Anita's room looks as if she's about to move out with half her furniture disassembled and a heap of packing crates piled about the place holding the former occupants of the disassembled furniture (like her gigantic video collection for example) I've had to take the stairs lights out of action because they'd be unsafe to have running while people are going to be clambering about on the other side of the ceiling they're fitted into, and the contents of my airing cupboard have been moved out so that the airing cupboard itself can be converted into the boiler housing... the only thing left is to clear one or two surfaces upstairs and stow away the glassware since the cupboard that lives in will need to be moved to make way for piping instalation.



should be an interesting week but at least I don't have to go to work tomorrow

defeat

I give up. Something about the new site structure (which makes everything else work much better) is screwing up comments both from Blogger's own homebaked solution and from the add-in code I used to use from Haloscan... so it's 'no comment' for the time being folks, you'll have to put up with just listening for a while.

I'm archiving Haloscan's comment log so I haven't lost anyone's input on old entries (thanks to all of you by the way, it's been good to have feedback) but for now you won't be able to add new comments. sorry.

update on the update

so now the archives are back up, took a bit of digital sleeve rolling and mucking in manually with some html code but I can do that and hey look, it worked!

now I just need to figure out what's breaking the comments engine so you can all overload haloscan with your torrent of accolades for my beautiful new layout ;)

oh and (as yet) some links in archived blog posts (to photo albums for example) will still be broken because I've moved where some things (like photo albums) live - similarly if you link in to any content at splateagle.com you should know it's moved - in fact you should already know because I mailed the only people who've asked permission to do this and explained the new structure, so if your external link in is broken the it's your own fault for not asking - so ner.

ping!

sorry we've been a bit short on updates round here recently - I've been kinda busy updating the whole site! woo! :)

I'll have more to say once I've finished checking everything works (like the archives, which are shot just now I'm afraid)

God Bless NETGEAR!

Home is wireless once more! woohoo!

For those of you who missed it, back in August broadband finally arrived in the little Scottish backwater where I live. Cutting a long and boring story short after that there was nothing but perplrxing techno-disharmony in my house until this morning when I replaced a bunch of inexplicably uncooperative devices with one of these wonder machines. Now all is well again! Cables are banished to the corners and ducts they belong in and no longer dangling out the back of mine or 'nites computers. We can both use the internet at speed and at the same time... all is well once more!

I know: none of you are remotely interested in this but I'm ridiculously happy about it.