Last night i took my first voyage into the crawl space under our house. Actually, there's a good 4-4.5 feet of clearance down there so it's almost beyond "crawl" space. The reason for my visit was to identify the attachments of our thermostat wires, so i could hook up our new digital, programmable thermostat. Forced to exit once after i learned i would need a screwdriver to remove the face plate on the furnace, i quickly returned and was able to trace the two leads to their connections. I returned upstairs (only slightly dirty from the excursion), hooked up the thermostat, set it to 75 degrees, and lo and behold the furnace kicked in. I should've been a contractor. If i wasn't so mechanically uninclined. Maybe an electrician.

Speaking of real contractors, my uncle has almost finished our new living room/dining room doorway, and is finishing up by sanding, staining, and sealing the floor in the threshold. It looks fantastic ... he did a great job replicating the door framing and molding. Next up is filling in the old living room/kitchen doorway. Hopefully that will be wrapped up sometime next week.

Last night i also made a very nice dinner (pork chops with rosemary and rock salt, a new specialty) and replaced my computer's wireless keyboard and mouse, which had recently stopped functioning after receiving a hot tea bath. V has moved a lot of cds and furniture into our new music room out in the garage. I haven't spent time there yet due to my ailing health, but as soon as i'm back to speed i'm going to head out there to organize my mini-studio.

My sore throat is slowly going away. Lately it hasn't so much been my throat as the back of my mouth and the base of my tongue, which are inflamed. Hallmarks of viral infections, according to my doctor. Last night i slept fine, but when i awoke the roof of my mouth was very sore. I'd either been breathing through my mouth all night long (hot air from the furnace, no less), or mucus had been draining down from my nose. So now i've got this patch that i just can't seem to soothe with tea or cough drops. Argh.