Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I got several things done today. I feel like there's too much left undone, unprepared, even though if I look at how much time I've spent Doing Stuff and going places and dealing with people, it's been about as much as I can really expect from my body on a good day and quite a bit more than I could accomplish most days. But I still need to make sure I'm ready for tomorrow's recording session and know who's giving me a ride, however wiped out I am at this point.

My house is currently 288K, though for some reason it feels far colder. (Uh, maybe I should calibrate the dollar-store thermometer I'm using, come to think of it.) It was a little colder around sunset, but I turned the furnace on for forty minutes or so when my fingers got all clumsy. I forgot to check the temperature at which I felt mostly comfortable, before I turned the furnace off. It looks like I'll need to burn more heating oil this year than last year, but I'm trying to use as little as possible because I just can't afford it. Oh yeah, aplying for MEAP is on my list of things I keep not getting to while I still have energy. Argh. Last year I think I got away with waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to turn on the furnace.

Paint on the walls upstairs is nice, but what I really need are better windows. Except that those cost a lot more than paint, and I don't think my mother (who paid for the painting) can afford enough new windows to do enough good. Maybe if there were some plan where we could just pay as much as the new windows saved us each year until the windows were paid off... (Which reminds me -- I need to find out how much as modern gas furnace would save me compared to the pretty nifty-looking coal furnace that was converted to oil probably before I was born ... and how much of the cost can be subsidized by Baltimore Gas & Electric.)

A police officer did come and take notes for a report on my car having been broken into. It didn't take long, but she did take the time to actually look at the car (mostly just checking how they got into it, I think). I don't expect them to ever find the culprit, but I did want to make sure the incident was in their crime patterns and trends database. I do hope such a database exists, anyhow.

There was one other odd ... or was it an end? ... that was in my brain when I started typing, but it's gone now.

Hey, is anyone out there able to hear phone LJ entries at the proper speed on a Mac? I thought it was just something about my configuration, but I've seen comments indicating that other Mac users were hearing chipmunk voices too. (I haven't installed *.ogg compatible sound software on my Windows boxes yet.) I'm using Audion 3.0.2a9 under MacOS 9.1.