Back to normal
May. 4th, 2010 03:26 pmThe largely imaginary great Boston water shortage is now at an end - the end of the boil order was given when we checked the water board's site this morning, so I now feel even more justified laughing at the images of panic-buying that were all over the news over the last couple of days. It's a relief to be told that the water from the taps is not deadly after all, but I think it'll still be a few days before I'm really comfortable using it.
We opened all hatches this morning to do our part in flushing the water system, and on the aftermath factsheet, I was surprised to see the reminder that you should never be using water from the hot tap for cooking or anything that was eventually going to end up touching food in general - is this something that people are meant to avoid here and I just haven't known about for the last four years? It's never done me any identifiable harm, anyway.
Our deadline for getting documents in to the bank was today and our mortgage advisor seemed admirably clueless as to what was going on - as far as we can tell, they have everything they need with various people in various states of checking, but we'd forgotten to sign one of the 800 bits of paper that we'd been given. So I printed out the blank one that the bank sent us, signed it, and took it along to the office's pet behemoth (a... printer/copier/fax/email/general working-with-paper-at-all machine) where I found that I could set it up to email a copy of a paper document directly. That went to Whitney, who printed it out, signed and scanned it, and then sent it on to the bank for their signature. A paper form physically signed by three people in three different cities, within the space of ten minutes... I love the existence of the Internet.
We opened all hatches this morning to do our part in flushing the water system, and on the aftermath factsheet, I was surprised to see the reminder that you should never be using water from the hot tap for cooking or anything that was eventually going to end up touching food in general - is this something that people are meant to avoid here and I just haven't known about for the last four years? It's never done me any identifiable harm, anyway.
Our deadline for getting documents in to the bank was today and our mortgage advisor seemed admirably clueless as to what was going on - as far as we can tell, they have everything they need with various people in various states of checking, but we'd forgotten to sign one of the 800 bits of paper that we'd been given. So I printed out the blank one that the bank sent us, signed it, and took it along to the office's pet behemoth (a... printer/copier/fax/email/general working-with-paper-at-all machine) where I found that I could set it up to email a copy of a paper document directly. That went to Whitney, who printed it out, signed and scanned it, and then sent it on to the bank for their signature. A paper form physically signed by three people in three different cities, within the space of ten minutes... I love the existence of the Internet.