Robinson Crusoe at Home
Without really trying to stay inside, I’ve managed to go five days without leaving the house. What I got out of this lost weekend:
AshleyGandDrew.com, a from-scratch site for the business, proving that it is possible to learn Ruby on Rails in less than a week, even with my “magical black box” method (feed things into the box, get error messages out, put error messages through Google, repeat).
a ginormous shop update. Eleven (!) bearded guys and seven new members of the permanent open-edition family.
a respect for and fear of my new CPAP. It ruined my Friday with too much pressure, I think, and screwed up my inner ear or CO2 levels or something. Dizzy all day. Terrible.
Then, the past three nights, it’s been spitting droplets of frigid condensation into my nose an hour or two into operation. Explanation below.
a newfound appreciation for fingerless gloves. Sometime Saturday afternoon, our heat stopped working. The blower kept circulating air, but it wasn’t particularly hot air. Sunday morning, it was 52° inside. Three-way phone tag between the landlord, the heating guy, and my iPhone finally got us a visit this morning. A part’s being ordered, and we should be back in business tomorrow afternoon. Maybe. Ashley and I have both been in five layers the whole time.
Tomorrow, I pledge to leave the house for at least a minute or two. Upward and onward!
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