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Shortly after I posted on Saturday I discovered that our refrigerator wasn't working. Someone is coming out to repair it today, but the ever-so-delightful fetch quest of home ownership - researching, troubleshooting, reaching out to someone to repair it, determining what could be salvaged (not much) and what had to be thrown out (most of it), finding an interim solution involving the dorm fridge we use to keep beverages cold and a couple of coolers, etc. - ate up way more of my time and attention the last few days than I would have liked. I've gotten some writing on Deep Dive done (I never get nothing written), but my output is way down from the usual.

The next few days should be better, though. I'm rarely out of the saddle for long. In the meantime, here's a delightful piece by Luis Sanz for Black Vans that gave me a chuckle when I saw it:

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Andrzej Vasilevski

A breakdown of some familiar element of the household often, when trying to fix it, turns into a gluttonous monster that devours every bit of free time. My well got clogged this week (yes, you heard right, the well dug by my grandfather), cleaning, replacing the hydrophore, installing filters for cleaning, ate up all my free time and time planned for other activities... so I understand you very well...

Eric Zawadzki

At least I didn't have to perform the repairs myself, but yeah. Even just having to figure out get by mostly even in the absence of a real fridge was taxing. Being without water is way worse. The house I grew up in had well water and electric heat, so when we had a power outage, we didn't have water or heat, either. Fortunately, we had a fireplace in the family room that could at least prevent the house from getting dangerously cold.