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the eternal pipe upgrade

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.02.04

I'm getting pretty tired of this pipe upgrade in my building. The fellow who failed to fix the shower controls after he buggered them up was back for more today. Rather than actually fix the controls, though, he left his assistant to half-way fix the holes in the ceiling of the closet and the shower. Another two days without shower facilities. That brings the total to 14 in four weeks. Sheesh!

Another minor site redesign. While I still have the new home page under wraps, I've tweaked the appearance of the remainder of the site to what you see here. Desided the previous one looked a touch sloppy (even if it was attracting some positive feedback). Insanely, it also seems that the various pages on etherlabs.net are driving an average of around 1200 page requests a day. That's even more than some of the other sites that are hosted here.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov