The Wild Web

 I have  a cracked window corner.   It's an easy repair job, since its the slider half of the window.  It will come out easily.   I just wanted to take it to a glass shop for them to replace the glass.

So I searched online for a local company that would do that.  I thought I found one. They had a contact form, but it would not allow for describing what I needed.  I thought that was strange.   

For the next three days I got innumerable calls, texts and emails, some of them spam, some legit companies, none were companies that would replace the glass in a window.  It turns out the contact form had redirected to Homeadvisor, that is supposed to pair projects needing done to companies.   Only some of the companies contacting me were from out of state, some from the east coast.  This morning, it was a lady from Georgia!   I explained to her what had happened and she was quite nice, but as for the spammers, they were not.  I have now blocked around 20 phone numbers, just from that one slip up and a really lousy website (homeadvisors).   

I'll wait til spring anyhow.  Its just a small crack and I injected flexible epoxy glue into the crack with a syringe and needle, from my cat care kits.   It's too cold to put a board across the vacant space right now, for a couple days if I removed the window and took it to a glass shop, if I could even find a legit one.   

The windows are all extremely old and aluminum framed, in the house, so I expect more failures in the future.   Hope I can find a place to get them fixed should they break.

I took down a cat structure in the house.  It was too hard to clean up on top, where cats would sleep and besides, I never meant for it to be permanent.  I first built it as a place for Oci, my severely overweight feral girl cat, to exercise and lose weight.    But I gave up on that years ago, and then Oci died suddenly two years ago, not long after she had a dental.  Heart event.

I had used it after I gave up on it as a weight loss center for Oci as a kitten foster cage..    When I quit doing adoptions, I gave up on that too, and took off the door and sides and added some shelves and cat tubes.   But I really wanted it gone, to give me back my space.  

Two days ago, I got some bug in me, and energy for once, and took it apart in a burst of good intention.  Its so nice to have it out of there.  The six foot 2x4's that held up a platform top are all good wood still.  I washed them and they're now in the garage.  The top, the platform, is thin plywood I will reuse also.  I can use most of the screws again too.  The two metal shelves are questionable, but I think I can use at least one.  The other is badly rusted.   Of the two cat tubes, sheet metal duct pipe, one four feet, one three feet in length, I am redoing one to use in a new smaller cat structure.  Yesterday I covered the outside of it with carpet and cut half the four foot metal tube in half, so that two feet of it is still an enclosed but now carpet covered tube, while the other half, is half a tube, that can be laid in as a bed. My plans are not yet complete on how to assemble the new cat structure, but I have a good idea on design.  This photo was it when I first made it for Oci.

I did a neat job of the construction initially, I thought.  The cage worked great for kitten fostering and taming.  That proved its best purpose.

Well anyhow, my too short futon is now right there, against that wall.   Now I'm not too close to the TV anymore and I have so much space.

I have watched a bit of the Olympics.   I like some of the events.  Speed skating maybe is one of my favorites.   I can't think of any others I like.   Speed skating is very exciting and chaotic.

It's strange all the snow events are on manmade snow.   The slopes look so odd from the air, these lines of white, for the runs, in otherwise bare hills.