July 16, 2006

Not the best of days

You know you're not going to have a good Sunday when you have a termite swarm Saturday night. Sure enough, the coffee pot staged a drip slowdown this morning, taking about 1 1/2 hours to fully fill the carafe. Meanwhile, the jar of instant coffee was so old that it was undrinkable.

After starting the first of three loads of laundry, off I went to Sears to get a new pot. I found one, then went to Safeway for various other things. While getting out of the car, I stepped on some loser's thrown-away gum in the parking lot.

Oh, and the Dodgers lost 11-3 to the Cardinals, getting swept four straight games in the process.

I shoulda stood in bed.

Posted by Linkmeister at July 16, 2006 02:06 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Oh, it's that time of year, is it? I should have guessed from the snakes in the living room. In my house on Hickam, we had an interior door that swarmed every year. Needless to say, you don't just go replace a door in military housing!

Lucky you live Hawaii!

Posted by: terry in AZ at July 16, 2006 03:52 PM

I forgot to add that we ran out of the blue flying insect can of Raid last night fighting the demons.

Posted by: Linkmeister at July 16, 2006 04:30 PM

I trust that the "drip-slowdown" was not caused by the termites swarming?

Posted by: pixelshim at July 17, 2006 02:37 AM

The termites were merely an omen, not a cause (at least, I didn't find a dead one in the coffee filter).

I'm formulating a theory that coffeepots have a useful life, and this one, like the last one, had reached its limit.

Posted by: Linkmeister at July 17, 2006 08:38 AM