November 4th, 2007ch-ch-ch changes
Boston.com changed their website today. And apparently Amazon.com has changed theirs as well.
This does not make me happy. Boston’s is weird now, more like NYTimes.com, but with different tiered navigation; Amazon’s is generally OK.
I’m not a big fan of change.
Our new landlord emailed us a list of information about our new house, and while I’m very excited to move, there are two interesting changes that have me a bit stressed.
Our heat is oil.. oil, which is up to $3 a gallon. Granted, each room has a separate heating unit with it’s own thermostat, but still.. it’s a bigger place.
And we have a septic tank.. no more city sewer. Technically I hear this is OK, but according to what I’ve read, we have to be far more careful with running the washer and dishwasher at the same time, with what gets flushed and with using water in general. It’s making me a little nervous.
Anyone have any experience with either of these? Is the oil bill going to kill us? Is a septic tank really that scary?
ok, here goes… having lived with septic tanks my entire life (flushing such things that I may need to flush 😉 ) never have we run into any problems… nor have there been any problems with running the washer, dishwasher… I mean it could possibly be a consideration if it is an old house… but I am aware of the fact that the town does make you upgrade your septic tank. I know for a fact that my brother and i ran wild around my parents house running water, washing clothes and what not without any consideration for any of it and my folks never had any major crisis.
as for the oil, we have oil heat. our last 1/2 tank cost us $375.50 luckily the winter has been mild, just keep your fingers crossed that we continue to have a looooong september 😉
Comment by ghetto gurrrl — November 5, 2007 @ 12:01 am
Everywhere in Hawaii is pretty much on a septic tank. At least on the Big Island. You shouldn’t have any problems as long as you don’t have sixteen people over and they’re all showering and doing laundry.
So, I want to blog again, but, get this – I can’t log-in. My harddrive crashed awhile ago and I lost everything on it, including my link to the login page.
I found another WordPress login, but what I remember being the username and login, isn’t the user name and log-in.
Any chance you remember that, after all this time? If so, email me a haoleboy72[at]yahoo.
If not, maybe the muse really is dead.
Comment by grampa — November 6, 2007 @ 4:54 am
J.. OK, let’s hope this winter stays warm, lol.
Gramap.. That’s your excuse? Hrm. I emailed you the info, let me know if you didn’t get it.
Comment by the insider — November 6, 2007 @ 11:41 am