Buyer's Remorse

Wednesday: Up at 7 AM, the phone ringing. Didn't catch it, but it was the plumber, saying the furnace and hot water tank would be delivered on Friday. Back to bed for a little while, then up around 8. A call from the other plumbers, saying they would be here to install the dishwasher between 10 and 2. I'm not sure why they even bothered to give me a time frame. MB headed to work. Brief sitting. Siphoned standing water out of the old dishwasher.

Shower. Morning practices, sitting in the living room. A lazy morning and early afternoon. Guitar. Email. Contacted the guys about microfilm. They had no idea what I was talking about. Did some KKC web work. At 2:25 I called the plumbers saying I was thinking of canceling the job. They showed up around 3. Two young guys. I really should have done the job myself. No... I really should have just repaired the old one. The whole thing had the sense of it being hugely and unnecessarily expensive. The guys were in a hurry, and not particularly careful with what they were doing. They were stumped by the fact that the hole wasn't quite square. They installed the machine sticking too far out into the room. They wouldn't take the cardboard box for the new unit, and they left a mess behind. By this point it was 4 PM.

In to work for a token couple of hours. A lovely day out. Enjoyable drive. Determined what was causing bugs in a particular plug-in, that really needs to work well. Fixed another bug. Talked to Mtw a bit about the new design. headed out at 6:30.

KKC. Arrived on time. Ey was there for the first time since his mom passed away. Another download on 70 Topics. I asked a question at the end, with an answer that I wasn't expecting. (Infinity is an odd concept... For example, suppose that there are an infinite number of points on a line... that doesn't mean that all the spots on the line are filled in. There could still be gaps.) Then, a cookie fest. Tni gave me some microfilm. Gave checks to Wendy.

Back home, feeling a bit depressed about how the dishwasher turned out. MB was playing guitar. Crushed the cardboard box, and readied it for recycling. Vacuumed. Decided I couldn't take the way the dishwasher was installed. In 10 minutes, had it in a much better orientation, given the constraints of the opening. Found that they baseboard had also been installed incorrectly, so fixed that. Gave the front a clean. Eventually I was satisfied. A frozen burrito and veggies, with some instant mashed. Talking to MB about tolerance for different beliefs between religions. Sorted through mail. Talked about the vastness of the universe, spurred by quite a good article.

But consider that if the sun were a grain of salt, the Milky Way Galaxy with its estimated 200,000 million stars would represent a 70-ton pile of salt with each grain being over 7 miles apart. Since the universe contains some 100,000 million such galaxies, its enormousness is overwhelming to the imagination. 

Goodnight Moon.