I did not sleep well last night. We did the unfortunate thing of talking about “serious things” all the way up to and past our usually strict lights out time of 10pm. Things that we usually don’t talk about after 8 pm include: logistics and work and news. We are allowed to talk only about “fun” things which usually include: cooking, pets, things we want to buy, and weightlifting (we’ve been watching the world championships).
Jeremy has been sick since Sunday, but he recovered well enough to go into DC on Wed almost as soon as I came home from my DC trip to see some coworkers for lunch and a get-together. Poor guy, he really misses in-person work. He came home at 6:15 pm and I had dinner ready, which I’ve taken to serving in our Nambe serving wear which I’ve gotten both as gifts and thrifted. And then I said out loud into the ether that I wished I had something sweet and he said – OMG! I got us free leftover cookies from the office get together from your favorite place to get cookies. And I’m like – what’s my favorite place to get cookies?! Panera? no. Giant? no. Potbelly’s? yesssss. So I had cookies.
Then I went to church – my church is full of beautiful, service oriented people who work so hard to build community and friendships and yet…they mostly are not very handy. So they have me, fortunate? or unfortunate? They recently got a modern, energy efficient seven multi-head mini-split heat pump installed in a set of offices in late summer on the order of 50K. It’s a very good system with a very poor controller panel. (Actually, have I ever met a mini-split controller that I’ve liked? The answer is NO. I have not.) There are seven of these panels attached to the walls and they are super confusing to program and to use. I guess we didn’t specify that we wanted the fancy remote control unit wi-fi with nice user interface which I think we were expecting. When it was installed, the offices needed air conditioning and no one could figure out how to turn that on. The contractor, a somewhat slow texter, came days into hot weather to turn it on. Anyways, as we’ve been heading into colder days, they couldn’t turn on the heat! The staff could barely could make the AC stop blowing cold air. The vendor…not so responsive. I should have gone sooner – they’ve been working a week with space heaters. Anyways, I set all of them to heat and hopefully, the heat works now.
