Maintenance work, and rain
Jul. 6th, 2018 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyornWednesday my new scooter had its first inspection. I got it to the shop on Tuesday evening and took the bus home. (The shop is 6 km from the train station, 8 km from my home, and 14 km from my place of work, so not optimal in that regard.) Wednesday I managed to get from work to the shop in 55 minutes, which has to be a new record! I need to train sprinting again, though, the two dashes when changing from bus to train and then to bus left me gasping for air for minutes.
Thursday more maintenance work, had to have my eyes checked. Insurance says it's not needed and they won't pay, unless when I ask them directly, then it's "strongly recommended" and would be "negligent not to do it", and they will *maybe* pay. I hate it, especially as it's inconvenient and painful and I cannot read, write, or use a computer for 6 to 8 hours after, and can see only vague shapes in sunlight. Which made the day pretty much a loss. I went home after the doctor's visit, took a pain pill for the upcoming headache from hell, went to bed, and slept/dozed for six hours.
However, there's an upside: Got a sick certificate from the doctor, so this did not cost me a vacation day, and my eyes are A-OK (apart from the severe short-sightedness, and middle-age adaption problems). As I am very worried about my eyesight, this is a vast relief.
While I dozed, nature must have read the headlines about draught and risk of wildfires and decided to do some maintenance of her own. In the mid-afternoon it started raining heavily, and it hasn't stopped yet (though it's not "wall of water" anymore, but a nice long country rain). No emergencies where I live, but at work today there's a musty smell everywhere. I heard that one of the machine halls got flooded (running water on the floor for hours), and the roof in the managers' offices is leaking.
I wonder about damp, and about building standards. About two years ago in spring I was visiting an open-air museum of old houses and found that those from 17th century and earlier were not places one would want to live in, 18th to early 20th were fine, and from early-to-mid 20th there was a persistent musty smell.
Talking about smells... about 100 metres from my place (on the other side of a thin line of trees and a pond) is an 7-storey old office building from the (I guess) 1970s. (Everything from the 1970s is crumbling and being torn down. Everything from the 1950s is fixed up or given to the organisations which used to be in 1970s buildings and have to go because the roof is coming down on their heads.) It's getting torn down now, and a musty, dusty smell is hanging over the whole neighbourhood. At least the rain has washed some of the dust down.
I have taken some pictures and I hope to manage two more series. I did mention that taking pictures of (de)construction sites has become kind of hobby? If this goes on, I need better equipment.
Thursday more maintenance work, had to have my eyes checked. Insurance says it's not needed and they won't pay, unless when I ask them directly, then it's "strongly recommended" and would be "negligent not to do it", and they will *maybe* pay. I hate it, especially as it's inconvenient and painful and I cannot read, write, or use a computer for 6 to 8 hours after, and can see only vague shapes in sunlight. Which made the day pretty much a loss. I went home after the doctor's visit, took a pain pill for the upcoming headache from hell, went to bed, and slept/dozed for six hours.
However, there's an upside: Got a sick certificate from the doctor, so this did not cost me a vacation day, and my eyes are A-OK (apart from the severe short-sightedness, and middle-age adaption problems). As I am very worried about my eyesight, this is a vast relief.
While I dozed, nature must have read the headlines about draught and risk of wildfires and decided to do some maintenance of her own. In the mid-afternoon it started raining heavily, and it hasn't stopped yet (though it's not "wall of water" anymore, but a nice long country rain). No emergencies where I live, but at work today there's a musty smell everywhere. I heard that one of the machine halls got flooded (running water on the floor for hours), and the roof in the managers' offices is leaking.
I wonder about damp, and about building standards. About two years ago in spring I was visiting an open-air museum of old houses and found that those from 17th century and earlier were not places one would want to live in, 18th to early 20th were fine, and from early-to-mid 20th there was a persistent musty smell.
Talking about smells... about 100 metres from my place (on the other side of a thin line of trees and a pond) is an 7-storey old office building from the (I guess) 1970s. (Everything from the 1970s is crumbling and being torn down. Everything from the 1950s is fixed up or given to the organisations which used to be in 1970s buildings and have to go because the roof is coming down on their heads.) It's getting torn down now, and a musty, dusty smell is hanging over the whole neighbourhood. At least the rain has washed some of the dust down.
I have taken some pictures and I hope to manage two more series. I did mention that taking pictures of (de)construction sites has become kind of hobby? If this goes on, I need better equipment.
