Kristel's Blog

Renter’s insurance at that. My coverage starts at midnight — hopefully I won’t have a flood, fire, tornado, or worse, Dick drop by before then. I was going to consider different options, but first of all, PC no longer offers home or auto insurance, and secondly, RBC is covering me for just over $15 a month, which I’m thinking is pretty good. At least I know my stuff is worth than me based on the difference between renter’s and life insurance. Now all I need is a boat (Oh, they’ll also cover a pet if I get one!)

On a different note, my tub has had no hot water for 2 days now. I braved the cold shower sunday morning. I used the kitchen sink today. Called my super while I was at it. I thought they had been doing work, because my taps were spattering when I first turned them on… and the hot water just came back to all but the tub. Apparently there’s no work being done. At least not in our building. however, there is work being done on Norfolk/Gordon Streets — they’re starting the weird 5-street corner tomorrow. So on Sunday they meant to turn off the main city line for there, but turned off ours by accident. My super called and complained, it was fixed. But they’re thinking when we suddenly had no water pressure, and then it was turned back on, the pipes leading to my tub got clogged. My super played with the shut off valve under my bathroom sink, determined that it was really just the tub, like I said, and therefore the problem was with the pipes by the shower, behind the tile, in the wall. Great. they’re getting the plumber here tomorrow. I *really* hope the problem’s fixed soon. At least my parents live close enough for me to shower there if I have to. I can’t see him turning off my water for days… at least I hope not. Maybe i’ll need that insurance sooner than I’d thought.

Was looking for a 30′ parachute — 1. it’d be fun for my soon-to-be-cubs (if we have any register, cross your fingers we do… oh, and that we get tents too.) and 2. it’d be fun for me and my closest 23 friends (though i’m thinking we could get away with half that) there was a 3. but i don’t remember it. Anyways, can’t find them in stores near by. The biggest they had was 10′, which is just big enough for 12 squished around it… more like 6 for 2 hands. So I searched online, the best price I could find, Canadian, is $234. yeah, not happening. I did look in the states though, and I found one for $120 USD… which is totally better, and free shipping to our customer just down the street, so when we’re there next week, we can pick it up.

I have the Dance of the Cucumber stuck in my head. Great. I helped out at Jacob’s 5th birthday party on Sunday… at Chuck E. Cheese’s. I’ve never been there, but I envisioned a *much* bigger climber. McDonalds, where we went after (to avoid spending money on $30 for a large pizza to be split amoungst lots of kids and adults, so we’d need like 3) had a bigger climber. But I was talking about Veggie Tales… they were playing them at Chuck’s. Which surprised me as they’re usually very religious. Sure they were just playing Silly Songs with Larry, which aren’t religious, but still…

Been reading the Cub Leader Handbook. Man it’s long. Guess it could be super boring, which it’s not, but still. They continually reaffirm the same ideas across the thing, I’m having a hard time not skipping pages. I think I’ll have to go back and reread the badges section — i really wasn’t paying attention then.

Ha! It’s playing in my head, and we’re at the butter on a bald monkey part. That’s the best part.

Started with Drupal today. Definately has a lot more functionality. But from a stupid-user standpoint, Dad and I agreed that if all they’re doing is just posting articles which need to be approved anyways, Joomla is probably better. However! He agreed Drupal is better, and easier, if you’re *not* internet-stupid. (as in, you don’t call saying your network is down and need us to come out immediately, when really your browser just crashed because you clicked on the “you have 100 viriuses, click to remove them now” button.) So we agreed that if we’re the only ones running the backend, or if someone else is who can be considered IT, Drupal is our tool. He had another customer tell him about this other platform: CMSimple. Have you heard of it? Because I haven’t. And looking at their site, I’m not impressed either. Oh, and paying $98 to get a license to remove the “powered by CMSimple” link is ridiculous.

I think that’s it for now. Should probably go to bed since I don’t know when plumber will be here tomorrow.

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