snow, 9/11, faucet

there's still snow on the ground. it's been cold. it snowed when? last tuesday night i think? it could have been wednesday night. i don't remember. but anyway. it's still here. the temperature hasn't been above 35 degrees fahrenheit all week. i carved out my car on friday and drove it to the mall. i returned the garbage disposal to sears without any hubbub. there was ice on the roads and there still is ice on the street in front of our house. the city doesn't seem to be doing anything to take care of that. do they think it will just melt on its own?

it's martin luther king jr day today. happy martin luther king jr day, everybody. no mail today, i guess.

i finished jonathan safran foer's 2nd novel, extremely loud & incredibly close, the other day. it was outstanding. it was one of the saddest books i've ever read. the horrors of 9/11/2001 in new york as well as those of the bombings of dresden are depicted in a startling way. i was startled, and very impressed. i haven't yet read his first novel but i plan to read it one of these days.

the bathroom sink faucet i ordered online on 8/25/2006 arrived the other day. wow. we had just about given up hope. but here it is. it's a bridge design and it looks a little like this. that's the design. next, a sink. is it weird that we bought the faucet before the sink? we don't like the current bathroom sink and we have long planned to get a different one. we found the faucet we liked first, that's all. now that we have the faucet, we can look for a sink to go with it. we'll see how that goes.

tomorrow someone comes to look at the furnace. nothing's wrong with the furnace, for which i am grateful, because it's quite cold outside, but it hasn't had a physical since we've lived here, and i think it could use one. and on thursday, theoretically, we get our new door. i'm not holding my breath, but it's scheduled for thursday morning.