Yesterday, I had to go to the house, the appraiser was coming. With keys this time. A downpour happened right on time - started when we got in the car and stopped when we got back. It was actually welcome, so we at least checked the roof. The ad did say that something was not covered by insurance because of the roof, and there was damage under the sinks (which may mean both kitchen sink and both washbasins). The appraiser said that the roof was damaged once and one can still see where ceiling got soaked and then patched - said it was obviously fixed*. Saw no drips. And the bottoms of kitchen and both bathroom cabinets are rotten from drips, and the previous owner gave no fucks about fixing that. Big deal, just a piece of particle board.
The house is surprisingly well isolated, thermally. It's without power for months now and the AC is off, yet it was nice inside, at least downstairs. Upstairs it was a tad warmer but still decent. Everything looks bigger than it did the first time.
When we returned, it was full sunshine, and I ran the wipers full speed going there :). Real summer shower, hits and goes away in less than half an hour.
The day turned out nice, altogether, we even went to the pool (too lazy to start either car or bikes for the beach for this little bit). The water was just right, despite all the rains. The rain doesn't cool it much, the temperature drop is negligible, mostly because there's already lots of humidity in the air, so it can't evaporate - and evaporation cools it. In any case, much drier than in A-burg.
On UA, this exchange:
Mike Cole proposed the perfect flame thread, as an experiment, starting with this set of initial statements: VFP is better than .Net; .Net is better than VFP; MTV sucks, MTV is cool, USA is a republic, USA is a democracy, Jerry Berhengen has some MESSED UP fantasies. GO!!
me: Are you telling me to leave? If so, leave what and where? Kidding aside, I think this won't work. Great (by size) threads come up spontaneously, by inspiration, not by expressed intent. You'd need some social engineering to accomplish that
James: You're right, of course. But it does seem that when MTV says what he says he is actually trying his hand at social engineering. Seems to have the strong feeling that it is his DUTY and neither rain nor sleet nor... will deter him from achieving his objective.
me: As it is, he's becoming counterproductive. I know I'm skipping any threads where he's involved, because there's a high chance of mudslinging and pointless nitpicking. And I haven't forgotten his response from a few years ago when he literally wrote that he's not interested in my opinion.
Then the rest of it was between Jerry B and some guy from Hawaii, and that's when it got weird and hard to follow, because they exchanged lots of private jokes.
In another thread, about english grammar: „There's only one rule: anything goes. Or goesn't. “
Nina reports that she's at my parents. Slept the previous night at Zana's. Should be at oma's next.
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* this is where the serbian difference between finite and infinite (or rather perfect and imperfect) verbs may dispell the ambiguity, i.e. was it fixed and done with it (finite), or that there was some fixing going on (indefinite duration). In practical terms, there's no current leak, but the ceiling in one room (soon Lena's) shows damage, one slate is lowered a few millimeters, we'll have to fix that.