🪢 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 Both are a year out of date but they're offering 6 and 7 years of support so that's pretty good.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