Month: March 2002

It’s horrifyingly windy outside (was close to 60 today, won’t get above 38 tomorrow, you do the math. It needs to get down to 38 or below by midnight.

Anyway, in the winter you just don’t hear the wind the way you do in the summer because of the lack of leaves. But tonight you could hear the wind and it was just a freaky sound. I don’t think bowels of hell-level, but that is a sound that just gives me goosebumps. In the bad way.

I was putting the rubbish out, because they pick up tomorrow, and I hate to rush to beat the recycling truck. So I’m not open to taking odds on all the recycling and rubbish being at the end of the driveway by morning.

Oh my word, I can’t believe they’ve remade this Classic Football Game! I can’t possibly be the only one who remembers it! I should order one…it’s only 12.99 and maybe It will allow me to pretend I’m still in elementry school.

Had a very fun morning. My brother-in-law told my parents that today was one of the Acton Library’s book sales, so we headed over to it with them. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t have more cash in my pocket, because I literally spent everything I had on me! I got 6 books for me, and 15 for Junior. A little pricier than a yard sale, but all the books were relatively new and in excellent condition. A hardcover adult book (not THAT kind of adult) was $2.00, but we’re talking something that’s 19.00 at the local bookstore right now, not some hardcover from the 70’s on fixing your typewriter. I stuck to paperbacks for myself, but actually got some from authors I really enjoy, like Nora Roberts. So I paid a dollar for a book I would have paid $8 for new, and it goes to the library.

Speaking of which, back when I lived in Boxboro, I used to go to the Acton library a lot. They rebuilt the whole thing, expanding it, and it is just BEAUTIFUL. I mean, jaw-droppingly beautiful. And the children’s section is astounding. I wish we lived closer, I’d spend way more time there than I do att the Leominster children’s room. I need to find out there hours. I may just start going there every week or so just for a change of scenery.

My computer just started screaming at me for no reason. Well, I’m sure there is a reason, but geez, I almost jumped out of my skin just now. I guess I’ll have to see what is doing this to me.

Seriously, I’m not sure how they got this to work, but I have those excellent Maytag Neptune washer-dryer combos that cost as much as a small car. One of the things they promote in the advertising/sales literature is the fact that they are “synchronized.” I have no idea how this is supposed to work, we never bothered to ask. We just figured ALL wash cycles and ALL dry cycles lasted exactly the same amount of time, or something like that.

But that can’t be true because you can LOAD these suckers up, and they do take longer if you’ve packed in a load of towels, versus doing a few delicates. But every once in a while, I’ll be doing laundry and both the washer and dryer finish at the same time. It’s very wierd, and the reason I mention it is that it just happened now. The washer finished, and then the dryer finished about 30 seconds later. Great stuff.