Pubski opened so early today! Work! Yo y'all need to stop doing anything. Lock yourselves in your houses and hibernate for a month or so. Cases up hard. I've opened up 17 new facilities in the past week. Three of the past five working days had five opened per day. The facilities are doing a good job of reporting cases to the department, but my colleagues also apparently don't know how to report to me, so a lot have fallen through the cracks until the state yells at me. I've also become the only person doing congregate living settings, so now I get to do the weekly emails and meetings that I never had to do before. I was worried about the responsibility aspect of things when I took the job but that's going really well which is great. My old job still isn't filled. The supervisor over there thought it'd be filled by January. Pool season is rapidly approaching. No one is going to be trained for it and it's going to be a disaster. The dryer broke. It's 15 years old at least. Hell of a good run. I was in favor of repairing it. I think only the heating element broke. Appliances seem to be getting moor poorly made so I'm guessing something from 15 years ago might be a little better to repair than buying a whole new one. Also less waste. Also cheaper. We've gone through three refrigerators in the past few years. One broke every few months like clockwork starting not a month after the warranty ended. Two was shipped damaged and defective. Three arrived a few weeks ago. Warranty on all three was just a year. Also why the fuck the fridge need to connect to wifi. I'm all for the old dumb dryer not whatever shit is coming. New one has touch controls which just says to me a new piece to break that's not a dial and easy to fuck with if if breaks. But whatever not my money. And I'm moving somewhere soon so there's that. Living with the parents is... going. They have absolutely no respect that my job is like super HIPAA shit and I'm WFH two days per week, so they're running around all the time. They're both WFH every day and are using bedrooms for offices so I'm in the kitchen. They are so clearly listening to everything I say and as has always been the problem with them -- no privacy. We're not releasing what facilities have cases but my mom works with a bunch of these places and tries to find everything out. I can't and don't give it to her and she gets a bit pissy. But I'm doing my best. Less than four more months so that's nice. I need to ask my boss in a few months if I can go full time remote or if I get to train a replacement. I hate working remotely but money is money. And I'm about to be in debt. A lot of debt. I appealed the financial aid decisions of "you get federal loans and jack shit else" and all three lovely institutions laughed at me. How much has y'all's endowment grown over the past year. Y'all have the money. Give me some. Please. Anyway, the big question. The answer you've all been waiting for. It only feels right to let y'all know before anyone else (including the school!) And the answer is... Emory! CDC, puclic health capital of the world, lots of global health organizations, cheap enough living, still a global focused degree. It just feels right. Thanks to everyone listening to my ranting and throwing me advice throughout whatever this process has been y'all have been great.
We finally gave up on our old (gas) dryer, it was too expensive to move the gas lines and I'm not comfortable doing that myself. I did try but couldn't get the nuts to loosen without flexing the line. The dryer works fine, I replaced the belt a couple of times and the element once. It was purchased in 1986 according to the sticker on the back. We remodelled our kitchen in 2008 and bought a beautiful set of appliances from Sears. The dish washer is having issues and I have had to repair the feed hose twice for leaks. Our refrigerator we bought new for $1600 is no longer made and the new compressor that it needs is $1000 without labor. We got a great deal on it, separate freezer / fridge setup like a commercial kitchen. Then we designed the kitchen around it. To get a new matching set is going to cost like $3000. It'll be cheaper to get a normal fridge and rework the cabinets.