I ALWAYS prefer email communication. ALWAYS. Here’s why.
EMAILS NEVER INTERRUPT ME. They always wait until I’m ready to read them, and they wait until I’m ready to answer them. On the other hand, I am so busy, pretty much all the time, that a phone call has about a 98.4473% chance of interrupting me doing something. Text messages are almost as bad, because they come in regardless of what you are doing. However, they can be more readily ignored than a phone call. But they are not put off nearly as easily as an email.
As I write this, it’s the last day of August, 2024, and I have been wrestling with the City of Madison Rental Licesing people for nearly two months now.
Here’s the story.
THE BACKGROUND
For this particular rental house, I have owned it for nine years, having purchased it in 2015 (near as I can remember). It has been rented out since I bought it.
The City of Madison requires a license to rent out a residence, and to obtain this license, the house must pass an inspection. The new tenant cannot get the electricity turned on until this license is issued.
Last night, as I write this, my wife said, “I think our water heater needs to be relit.” Well, that was not surprising, because we installed this water heater in 2009, about 13 years ago, and over the last few months, it seemed I was having to relight it more and more often.
I’m not quite sure WHY I had to relight it, other than it seemed the pilot light went out (yes, it’s a gas water heater), and when that happens, the consarn thing just doesn’t work. Continue reading The 2022 Water Heater … Adventure→
This page is here to share with the world an IDEA I’ve had that could revolutionize wildreness SAR (Search and Rescue). The genesis of the idea came from a book I’m currently listening to, The Cold Vanish, by Jon Billman, and by a couple of streaming series I am also currently watching.
All of these are about searching for and hopefully rescuing people who go missing in wilderness areas, and right off the bat, it seems to me one of the biggest obstacles to conducting these search and rescue operations is the terrain. It is nearly always far away from civilzation, and extremely difficult to get to. Continue reading One-Person Wilderness SAR Vehicle→
