cellio: (lilac)
Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2003-04-04 12:32 pm

short takes

How do you throw away a trash can? I've tried for the last two weeks on trash night (it's dead), but they keep taking the rest of the stuff and leaving it. I realize that the protocol involves leaving empty trash cans on the curb, but surely there's an override mechanism.

Last night's D&D game was exciting. During the final encounter my character was pretty ineffective, but that happens to everyone sometimes so that's ok. Most people were badly injured but no one died, so I'd say the DM's callibration is about right. This morning I got an idea for a fun bit of character fluff to throw in at the next game. (My sorceror just gained a new level, and thus new spells.)

Tonight I'm leading services at Tree of Life. The rabbi was happy that I'm available for this one specifically; it's "sisterhood shabbat" (so I guess some of them will be leading parts of it that I would otherwise do, which is fine), and I'm apparently the only woman currently in the cantorial pool there.

I recently had the opportunity to say, to my own rabbi, that, well um err, at the risk of being too forward or immodest, I'd like the opportunity to do this there. Our cantor isn't available every single service, after all (people get sick, go on vacation, etc), and I want us to use qualified people from the congregation, not hired outsiders. It was an awkward conversation, but he seemed receptive to the idea. We'll see what happens.

Tomorrow is an SCA event (Coronation), and our choir will be performing. It should be a good performance. Then after that we'll start working on the new Salamone Rossi piece ("Hashkiveinu"). Yay!

Last night around 6:30 I got a call from CompUSA saying "we're still waiting for parts". Around 9:00 they left a message saying "it's ready" (hrm?). I've got to call and confirm that, and ask them if they could leave it running overnight to confirm that it's not still spontaneously rebooting. I won't be able to pick it up until Sunday anyway.

[personal profile] rectangularcat 2003-04-04 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
For the trash can - put a sign on it that says that it is trash or even better says "free trash can"! Around here, you would not believe the stuff that people dig out of our trash.

Last night, on our drive to the fencing practice, we noted that it was the big stuff garbage day. Most houses we went by had at least 1 appliance in front, 1 shopping cart and at least 1 weird thing like a hot water heater or table saws. It is quite weird.. I never realized that so many appliances need to get thrown out. I thought those things lasted for 20 years+...

On the way back we noted that they didn't take the shopping carts. Te, he he.