Frydmania

Back in the land of the heating

December 15th, 2007

It took more visits, but the michty Man of heating fixed the boiler, replacing the timer.  We are back to normality.  Hopefully even better, as we have a somewhat more programmable timer, and can do all kinds of fancy things like having it come on later at weekends and so on.

Temperatures are dropping this weekend.  Certainly waiting in the station tonight to come back to Edinburgh, I was glad to know that we were going back to a house with heat.  A somewhat expensive lesson in the usefulness of monthly payments for boiler checks, but we reckon in the end that, had we had this kind of plan since we moved in, we’d have paid more in total than we did to get things fixed this time.  But we’re sure as anything getting one for the future…

There were some great thoughts for posts in the last couple of days, but they seem to have dropped off somewhere.  Friday was my last day at work - a full three weeks off now, which is bound to make some people sick.  Sadly, it did to me too - one of these sick headaches came on at the end of the work day that means you just want to get home very fast and lie down in a darkened room.  (Now I understand what darkened rooms are for.  Any more stimulation when you feel like you want to throw up, but can’t, would be more to deal with than I was prepared for at that time.)

Two hours’ sleep got me back to normal, but then, stupidly, couldn’t sleep when it was actually time to go to bed.  Too many questions of what to do over the next few weeks.  That’s the only thing with holidays.  Look forward to them for ages, build them up in your mind, and then they finally arrive, and you expect to feel wonderful.  And clearly I felt anything but…

Still, it’s a reminder that a certain amount of what I want at the moment is to do not very much.  Perhaps this early hiatus was in fact the beginning of the rest. At least it’ll be easier to retain warm memories, however the holidays turn out.

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