Illinois Governor Rod Baloneyvich and former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris look at each other as Baloneyvich announces Burris as his choice to fill Obummer’s vacant U.S. Senate seat during a news conference in Chicago, IL, December 30th 2008.
Tracey had yesterday off and will have today and tomorrow off work too. We started yesterday off by going out to breakfast which is always nice. Then we started messing with the washing machine which turned into an off and on all day affair. I figured we could just leave the cold water off because of the busted pipe and run the washer on hot water only but the silly thing refuses to run the rinse cycle with hot water unless you manually cycle through each of the wash, rinse and spin cycles. Eventually it just gets too tiresome and would be easier to just scrub your clothes on a rock!
Aaron & Tracey went into town yesterday afternoon to get their eyes examined and order some new glasses. Wow! Talking about costing an arm and a leg! That prescription glasses deal is a real set up.
MjL 31 Dec 2008, 5:13 a.m.
Our day ended on a wind storm induced #PowerOutage around 11:30 p.m. We spent a while hunting down flashlights, oil lamps etc.
After sitting in the lamplight looking at each other for about an hour we decided to go to bed. We left an oil lamp burning in the kitchen and one in the bathroom. And two boys playing chess by flashlight. The power came back on around 3 a.m. which was really good because it was getting cool and the furnace needed to run.
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