Random bits, not related

My mom's new thermostat - the 15 minute install took me 5 hours across 3 days. Doesn't help that it took some heavy thought to figure out how to remove the original or that i used the wrong paint (whose fault?) the first time.

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Friday, on my way to work, heard a beautiful sound, kind of like someone hitting the bottom of a large empty metal coffee container. I filmed it and tried to filter out the background noise - here is the sound, i think i need to work on my audio editing skills.

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Last night i found a dead mouse in my basement, in my work area. At first i was sad that something in my house killed it - i purposefully use live traps. But as i boxed it up i thought maybe it was poisoned in a neighbour's house and spent its dying strength crawling to a comfortable place, where it knew i'd take care of its passage.

Frozen ground is hard to dig.

History

I did not take this photo, nor do i know who did.

While cleaning out the platform above my basement's foundation wall, i found a pack of negatives dated to 1938 and developed just around the street corner. Look closely at the number on that house - among the negatives are a few shots of my house in its youth.





Feels strange lonely naked to see my house without its friends, the walnut trees. Maybe they're hiding around the side, not as brave and tall and damaging and providing as they are now.