(That's the Freedom Tower at the arrow. Watch it become inundated.) (Article at Huffington Post here.)
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Reality check: Sea level rise in Miami
(That's the Freedom Tower at the arrow. Watch it become inundated.) (Article at Huffington Post here.)
Charlie Crist signs papers to become a Democrat
Charles Blow: 'Dinosaurs and Denial'
NYTimes.com:
[Marco Rubio] said, “There is no scientific debate on the age of the Earth. I mean, it’s established pretty definitively. It’s at least 4.5 billion years old.”
But then he hedged: “I just think in America we should have the freedom to teach our children whatever it is we believe. And that means teaching them science. They have to know the science, but also parents have the right to teach them the theology and to reconcile those two things.”
Why the hedge? Because he is in a party of creationists. According to a June Gallup report, most Republicans (58 percent) believed that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. Most Democrats and independents did not agree.
Art Basel: World’s largest art scene pops up in Miami — for 1 week only
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| Freedom Tower: Kind of looks like this now |
World’s largest art scene pops up in Miami — for 1 week only - Business - MiamiHerald.com
See here and here too.
Saturday
Slept in late!
Not a lot on my agenda. Clean cat boxes. Water plants. Do the Xmas cards?
Having coffee and going to read news and blogs.
Email problems have been fixed, by the way, since the hacking incident at the beginning of November. All mail from my Bellsouth account is being forwarded again to my gMail account, as before. Everything back to normal. (Worked back on that last night.)
Not a lot on my agenda. Clean cat boxes. Water plants. Do the Xmas cards?
Having coffee and going to read news and blogs.
Email problems have been fixed, by the way, since the hacking incident at the beginning of November. All mail from my Bellsouth account is being forwarded again to my gMail account, as before. Everything back to normal. (Worked back on that last night.)
Friday, December 7, 2012
More TGIF
I hadn't heard from E. in a few days (which was odd). Maybe he's back with the crooked old BF (or someone else), which is fine with me. (I'd been the last to call - twice - and got no answer or call-back, and thought the hell with that!) Well, when I got back to work from the doctor's, there was a message from him on my work phone. I called him back and no answer (no surprise). Then he called back - he just wanted to say TGIF and have a nice weekend. Kind of flaky. We also discussed the latest with the guest bath (which had incurred a lot of water damage).
I think, as of this week, all the damage has been done (at least for the time being), and next week I'll look into having an insurance claims adjuster come in and assess the damage (so I can maybe get paid for something). (Neighbor had leaking wax seal on toilet that was causing water to seep into my bathroom and cause damage from the floor up (into the drywall) - that was fixed this week.) (That was just the latest problem that has been fixed - there'd also been water seeping in from above and destroying the drywall in the ceiling and wall behind the shower head.)
After the adjuster has been here, I'll start getting things fixed. Good time of year for that - bonus time!
And -- in between the first round of damage and the latest damage (which was probably ongoing during the first round of damage), I myself was accused of causing damage to the floors below (from a faulty wax ring on my toilet and leaks in the tub enclosure). I'd known there was a slow leak coming from the old toilet tank and had a towel on the floor to absorb this. The plumber said the toilet should go (so I bought a new one and had the old one disconnected so as not to leak from the wax ring). The plumber also replaced the valve to the toilet tank (which I couldn't turn off), replaced the "cartridge" in the tub enclosure, replaced the tub faucet, and did necessary caulking. So I'm no longer leaking out of here myself (so I've been told by the management).
I used to use this bathroom for about everything (for various reasons). Now I use the master bath for everything. It's been a bit of an adjustment, especially when getting ready to go to work in the morning.
The guest bedroom adjacent to the guest bath is where my flatscreen TV and computer are, so I spend most of my non-sleeping time in this room (when not at work). (Can no longer watch the TV from the toilet, if the need arises.)
I think, as of this week, all the damage has been done (at least for the time being), and next week I'll look into having an insurance claims adjuster come in and assess the damage (so I can maybe get paid for something). (Neighbor had leaking wax seal on toilet that was causing water to seep into my bathroom and cause damage from the floor up (into the drywall) - that was fixed this week.) (That was just the latest problem that has been fixed - there'd also been water seeping in from above and destroying the drywall in the ceiling and wall behind the shower head.)
After the adjuster has been here, I'll start getting things fixed. Good time of year for that - bonus time!
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| (First round of damage) |
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| (Latest damage) (Toilet is gone, BTW - have new one waiting to be installed) |
I used to use this bathroom for about everything (for various reasons). Now I use the master bath for everything. It's been a bit of an adjustment, especially when getting ready to go to work in the morning.
The guest bedroom adjacent to the guest bath is where my flatscreen TV and computer are, so I spend most of my non-sleeping time in this room (when not at work). (Can no longer watch the TV from the toilet, if the need arises.)
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