🪢 for Jan 14

 🪢as per usual here in the semi Great White North, awaiting the latest round of stuff falling from the sky.
and to that point, the repair guy was here to change out the heating cables over the back roof.
I noticed that the previous cable seemed to be shorting out the circuit breaker. This morning the two guys took down the old one and replaced it and then added a second cable going Westward to a not cabled portion of the roof.

XXXXXX hopefully, this cable will not short out the electrics

We shall see said the Zen Master

so going on ..... recall that my hip / leg / groin debacle over 2025 starting in late January, arose after standing on a ladder chopping ice from the same back gutter.

NOW, think ! did I pierce the heating cables chopping out ice ??????? 
we will never know but  - you have to wonder

BTW, my hip / groin anguish is really diminishing = taking way less meds and therapy. My take is' does the Guinness make a difference ? 
Really, I cannot come up w / a alternate hypothesis for the rather sudden change in the pain regime

Wishful thinking ? of course ! but I bought more Guinness yesterday
of course, of course Wish away

Okay there's been some agonizing about which phone to buy  the Moto G8 excuse me is kind of way past support date. So I need a you know spare phone down in the basement 

and quite a bit of back and forth, Galaxy a36 pixel 9A.

 Both are a year out of date but they're offering 6 and 7 years of support so that's pretty good. Galaxy a36 is $379 and the Pixel 9a is $ 670

However, some pretty important carry over features from our Pixel 6 a 

Anyways better tell you the white stuff is a coming, no doubt. We are talking about maybe four 6 in of snow so fairly significant but it's life in the great white North semi Great White North

🐶 ' ... his name was Goyaate ......

  🐶 ... but long ago the Mexicans had given him another name ........ "

' boro. sitting at the corner desk, dull overall [ sorry, that's me ] hovering around freezing. always a chance of something [ snow, freezy bits etc ]

yesterday. Tripped out to Staples.
the story : we use our living room as den [ TV watching ] and
dining room [ all meals ] and kick about place.
The area rug is the placemat for the floor.
We use a low round wood table for eating and reading stuff and work [ some ]. 
Obviously, this rug takes a beating [ food and drink spills ] plus whatever cascades off the table. 
I try and clean the area rug [ and it has been to the carpet cleaners ]
but w / its age and use, we decided to replace. Thus Amazon had an attractive 5 ft by 7 ft area rug for 70 dollars [ one day delivery ] so we bit the bullet.

Now, attractive in a blue / blue /grey pattern ...... yet thin. Yes, thin enough to ruck up if you move your feet too much.
Unsightly, and dangerous for walking. 
three solutions.
 first. I put synthetic mats right up to edge of the rug to catch spills etc.. Didn't solve the crease and rucking tendency.
.... ? use an underlay for support. but if the rug slides a touch then it will crease, again.
you see the round table has feet and not casters. I used carpet pieces and then small tiles under the feet but still the rug would crease.

At Staples, tho ', I found a 36 in by 47 in bottom toothed rug protector for an office commercial type carpet. The translucent protector is stiff enough to not move when the table slides a bit. The protector meets the mat that I was using and the table basically covers the protector - meaning that you cannot see the protector at the exposed places around the table. 
Winner, winner ..... chicken-dinner !
so goeth, my day

have a good'un

or Goyaakla in Apache } they called him Geronimo. American legend
A purported rationale for the name, was the Mexicans calling on ' St Jerome ' for divine aid

🧑‍💻 the new week, begins

 🧑‍💻 the ' boro will be near freezing. unsettled conditions [ little flakes, scattered precipitation ]

😄 January 11

  😄 ... the cold ish ness returns. semi clear conditions. wind is stirring
Sunday is Tiger shopping day. My fav store

purchased for Sunday : crackers, coleslaw mix, pizza and slippers

♾ ... and it goes on and on forever

 ♾ .... you must forgive me ...... form " in My mind, I'm going to Carolina " ala JT

day is cold in the  ' 'boro , not terrible but a reminder

🕋 the week that was ......

 🕋 the week that was ...... ends w / soaring winter temperature [ as in 50 ? ]

a big melt is going on.  white on the ground but roads are looking bare black

and another take the old guy to lunch day. another former student [ read here, man ] heard me waxing glorious about the Magic Noodle Restaurant. He lives near, and said we should go for lunch. We had some glitches, holidays and weather but today is fine

🌰 for today

 🌰 wet and mild [ for January ]

above freezing all day.white out there but dreary feeling

take an old guy to lunch day. We went to the Noodle. Then on to Costco. M .... needed Aceto in EZ swallow format. [ $ 14 ] Plus coffee and plastic garbage bags ...... all in $ 60

Well, lunch was good

However, glorious day for January. Temperature was 38 F, big sun bit of wind. Washed the boot tray [ salt encrusted like baked salmon ].Cleared the roof edge [ actually, well melted ] and perhaps found a way to straighten the new carpet.
The carpet is decorative but thin. Hence if a table sits on it any movement means there are creases [ if I had help then you could plunk the sucker right down ] but I put it down and need to re - address position and it rucks up
New plan: used wall tiles as coasters to sit under the legs. Most creases went away
we shall see said the Zen Master

Exercised. day s work fini