Mind losing
Feb. 8th, 2016 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisOne of my window shades lost its mind today. And I'm a little grateful. I hate the sun. I like light but the sun and I are long time arch enemies. It hurts my eyes and makes me hot. One end of my condo is nothing but windows. Floor to ceiling windows. That let in a whole lotta sun.
This winter has been fab. Almost zero sun. But today, the clouds are napping and the sun is out so I hit the button on my automatic shades this morning. After lunch, when the sun had moved on, I hit the button for Shades Up. 3 out of four of the shades went up. Ooops.
They operate on batteries that I was sure needed replacing but I didn't know the details. So I called the blind company who, before anything else, required all my personal information, DNA and thoughts and dreams. And then she told me to change the batteries. Bite me, bitch.
I figured it out and replaced the batteries and still no joy. So this time I called the nice guy who sold me the shades. And he's still nice. He's sending his guy out. Probably next week-ish which is fine. At least it's stuck in the halfway position and not all the way up.
AND most of all, I'm so grateful we had a sunny day on a cool day that enabled me to discover the problem instead of a really hot day when I need the shade and the shade guy or his installer were on vacation or booked solid or some other disaster. Yeah, I'm blowing this way out of proportion.
And I need more AA batteries. Each window takes 12. Happily, they last a couple of years.
CRAP. Just got an email that they are cutting the electricity for four hours a week from Sunday - 10-2. How annoying. Do they realize that my sewing machine requires electricity to run??? Maybe I'll do brunch and a movie. Maybe I'll knit. And, at least we got two week's notice.
This winter has been fab. Almost zero sun. But today, the clouds are napping and the sun is out so I hit the button on my automatic shades this morning. After lunch, when the sun had moved on, I hit the button for Shades Up. 3 out of four of the shades went up. Ooops.
They operate on batteries that I was sure needed replacing but I didn't know the details. So I called the blind company who, before anything else, required all my personal information, DNA and thoughts and dreams. And then she told me to change the batteries. Bite me, bitch.
I figured it out and replaced the batteries and still no joy. So this time I called the nice guy who sold me the shades. And he's still nice. He's sending his guy out. Probably next week-ish which is fine. At least it's stuck in the halfway position and not all the way up.
AND most of all, I'm so grateful we had a sunny day on a cool day that enabled me to discover the problem instead of a really hot day when I need the shade and the shade guy or his installer were on vacation or booked solid or some other disaster. Yeah, I'm blowing this way out of proportion.
And I need more AA batteries. Each window takes 12. Happily, they last a couple of years.
CRAP. Just got an email that they are cutting the electricity for four hours a week from Sunday - 10-2. How annoying. Do they realize that my sewing machine requires electricity to run??? Maybe I'll do brunch and a movie. Maybe I'll knit. And, at least we got two week's notice.
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Date: 2016-02-09 03:35 pm (UTC)That second doll could get work advertising a barber shop.