Remember the late night repairs to what turned out to be the sewer?

Surprise! Apparently, when they did that they managed to fuck up the gas line for the street! Which led to more late night repairs, but the gas company promised to do their level best to keep our gas on until morning, provided this can be done without killing us all.

I should take a shower now, is what I'm hearing. God, what a thing to happen on my birthday. I've been sick the past few days, too, so... yay, happy birthday to me?

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Our front yard is about four feet above the sidewalk. There's a retaining wall.

Guess who just bumped into that wall with digging equipment, knocking it slightly away from where it should be? They shoved it back, and it's not going to fall down today or tomorrow, but I gotta call their claims department to have them fix it properly. If this results in the house sparrows losing their tree I'm not going to be happy.

We were going to finally pick up some Star Trek again now that we all had time

but Paramount Plus screwed us over. So instead we decided to finally make use of our Apple TV subscription and watched Severance. In theory this is a thriller about people who can only remember work at work and can only remember the rest of their lives (but not work) outside of work, but actually I don't much care about the thriller stuff, I mostly am there for the charming and sweet romance about two men who are finding first love in a cult.

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