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Snow comes to Duvall

News ·Thursday January 11, 2007 @ 22:26 EST (link)

Off the wall: Catholic church is suing ICE for... doing their jobs (in this case, raiding a meat-packing plant looking for illegals). Unfortunately I can't find a link for it, so take with a grain of salt; however, if the Catholics are getting involved in politics, it's high time to take away their 501(c)(3) (charitable organization) status, especially since they're just doing it for the money and power (most Mexicans are Catholic, and are easily manipulated by Catholic priests since they've been brainwashed by that church all their lives). In searching, though, I did find this interesting blog and an article about the raids.

And then there was the illegal alien who claimed he only spoke Mayan so proceedings were halted to find him an interpreter. Time to make English the a national language, and you can get your own interpreter, and if you can't afford one, we can sentence as if it were in absentia.

January 3: Paid off the tree company (Alpine). I caught the Alpine "credit card guy" on the road, so he called back later to arrange payment.

January 4: Case Engineering called; Honey called back, arranged for him to be here on Wednesday at 1500. Called our mortgage company about the claim so they could fax me some forms that they'd need to release the bulk of the repair funds to us.

January 5: We heard we were going to get snow, so Jim Cameron came by again and strengthened the roof, putting up some beams and temporary trusses, and stacking some 1x4s on the roof to keep the tarps up. He also nailed the tarps down with 2x4s, since the last wind gusts had ripped the grommets out of the tied-down tarps. He also provided a heater for the room and removed most of the fans and dehumidifiers.

January 6: Watched the M*A*S*H original movie (MythTV, of course); not too bad, but Adam Alda is a much better Hawkeye than Donald Sutherland, especially with that annoying whistle. Honey worked today (got a job through a temp agency); might have gone longer (she was covering for someone that was trying to fly out for a funeral) but it was only to be the one day.

January 10: Cable (and hence Internet and phones) were out from 2130 until 0930 in the morning (I wrote a script with Net::Ping to beep when connectivity returned). The structural engineer from Case called about half an hour before he was due to arrive and canceled, rescheduling to next Tuesday. We wish we could've gone with Jim's engineer, but MetLife is forcing us to go with Case Engineering.

January 11: Saw some cracks in the kitchen/living room ceiling near the central supporting pillars; looks like just paint, tree damage further stressed by the weight of the snow. Doesn't look too serious. Thought I heard some snow and ice fall off the roof in the morning (loud rattle like someone dragging a ladder). A picture in a frame in the living room slipper down.