Today I intend to mail off my old camera for sale.\u00a0 I feel a little disloyal for casting it away but I have had it for over four years and the trade up in capability is well justified.\u00a0 But it’s funny how mechanical devices can become like old friends.\u00a0 I’ve gotten e-mails from people who, after seeing the classic car photos of the day, wrote about some memories of their favorite old car.\u00a0 It’s almost like there’s a symbiosis between our machines and us.<\/p>\n
But it’s got to go and so that’s that.\u00a0 The main problem is that it’s snowing again so I’ll first have to clear a path so I can drive to the post office.\u00a0 This snowing every other day is a royal pain but at least a familiar one.\u00a0 It gives me an additional reason for hating New England.<\/p>\n
Last night I headed out to attend the monthly Dunwich Republican Committee meeting and when I got to the town hall I found out the meeting had been cancelled.\u00a0 No announcement, no nothing.\u00a0 And the building custodian shows up at the door wearing a face mask and so now they’ve brought those stupid things back.\u00a0 When he sees I’m not wearing a mask he hands me a stack of R-95 masks and tells me how great they are.\u00a0 I thought of saying something sarcastic and then thought, “The poor guy is only doing his job.\u00a0 It’s not his fault he lives in a mental asylum.”<\/p>\n
The battle to repair the heating system is (seemingly) headed for the final chapter.\u00a0 After the last burst of activity the system worked without failure for a full week.\u00a0 Then it developed a new failure mode.\u00a0 This time the system would fail to restart after it cycled off on high loop temperature.\u00a0 Because no failure code and hard lockout occurred this apparently proved that the problem is indeed in the power venter.\u00a0 Now a crack team of technicians will descend on the compound in the next day or two and replace the power venter and order will be restored to my heating system.\u00a0 But somehow it reminds me of that scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL 9000 declares that a component on the external surface of the spaceship will fail and must be replaced.\u00a0 I feel like I’m being lured into some horrible conspiracy where I’ll discover that a maniacal mechanical device is attempting to finish me off to further a bureaucratic initiative that is “for my own good.”<\/p>\n
After snow removal and mailing off the camera I really have to do some photo work.\u00a0 I’m out of photos again and must put in the time for the post-processing.<\/p>\n