No Blog Post Today

2/28/2020

I have no blog post for you today because, for the second time this year, my boiler failed. This time it began leaking water and apparently has a crack inside that would cost more to repair than replacing the boiler. I spent the entire day yesterday dealing with the boiler failure, which is the second one I have now gone through in five years, across two different houses. When you add that to the broken toilets, dead washing machine, faulty door knobs, and myriad other problems, it makes for a very long and expensive half year of living in this house.

12 Comments

Glenn

2/28/2020 11:32:53 am

Can it be any more obvious that your house is haunted most likely by past residents who died in the house during some gruesome and unspeakable tragedy (e.g. murder)? You need to hire some ghost hunters or an exorcist to take care of this problem ASAP.

Murgatroyd

2/28/2020 11:35:01 am

Commiserations ...

Our boiler went wrong a few months ago. The insurance co.'s pet heating engineer took one disdainful look at it and pronounced it "BER" (Beyond Economic Repair). As a consequence, the Home Contents/Emergency insurance co. refused to pay anything. We would have had to buy a whole new boiler (which was only installed in 2008).

However, our local boiler engineer said it just needed a new part, and he could repair it for £400. After which the insurance co. had to pay up ...

As for the list of other things that have gone wrong with your new house, it sounds horrifying ... Surely many people in that situation might be tempted to seek some form of redress from the vendor ...

Kent

2/28/2020 12:14:49 pm

Gotta stop buying those Hewlett Packard boilers.

William Henry

2/28/2020 01:22:13 pm

Brah, ever thought about taking an anger management class? Or, is karma something else that is 'beneath' you? In case you've never heard to if, karma -- when the unkind, angry and untruthful words you jab and stab others with in your gossip column come back and stab you.

Hal

2/28/2020 01:58:59 pm

Oh it is so very sad that a “bestselling author” who just got a 6-figure advance for a new bestselling book has to endure such horror. As you have written you have never had an actual job so this probably seems so unfair and demeaning that you have to put up with something all the many people beneath you routinely deal with.

Fun fact

2/28/2020 04:18:54 pm

Did you know that the name of the evil computer HAL in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” was created from the letters that precede IBM in the alphabet?

No One Cares

2/28/2020 04:31:00 pm

It would be fun if it were a fact. The author denied it.

"HAL Communications Corporation is a real corporation with facilities previously located in Urbana, IL. , which is where HAL identifies himself as being activated:

“I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H-A-L labs in Urbana Illinois on the 12th of January 1992.”

From the HAL corp website:

Initially starting as HAL Devices in 1966 … HAL Communications Corp. outgrew its existing 2,000 square-foot facility in Champaign and purchased a larger building in Urbana."

Fun fact part 2

2/28/2020 04:44:45 pm

Not only was the name HAL inspired by IBM, but in the 1990’s, when a new area code was established in Washington State in the area where Microsoft has its headquarters, Bill Gates used his power to have the new area code be designated as 425 which corresponds to the letters HAL on a telephone dial. It was his sneaky way of getting in a subtle jab at IBM!

No one cares

2/28/2020 06:18:05 pm

It also spells "ICK"! According to Gates' authorized biography he was well known for the size of his pornography collection when a student at Harvard.

Doctor Strange

2/28/2020 03:10:30 pm

Now, now. Everyone just settle down.

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