I've been promoted...

Yeah, because my roommate is taking a 5-day holiday, to Georgia and dunno where else, I've been promoted to become the care-taker of the house. Basically, there are 4 huge tasks that I must do.

1) The cats - my roommate has 2 cats, Callie and Fruitcake, so, basically, I need to feed them, and keep their poop-box clean (or else it will stink-up the entire house). Easy... Check... Even though I'm a dog person, but, well, just to feed them and clean after them doesn't require me touching them, so, it's OK...

2) The water. Specifically, the hot water, because the hot water system is built in such a way that it will collect heat from sunlight and all, and it's SUMMER now, it collects way too much hot water, and I need to use them up or the water in the system might over-heat. (It's incredible how hot the water can get, just from energy collected from sun light. So, I need to take at least a warm/hot shower a day. This is harder, I take my shower at the gym, and also, the weather is too hot to take a warm shower. Well, I did my laundry today, with hot/warm cycle. So, that takes care of the water for today, how about tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday? Well, according to the weather forecast, it's gonna be cooler, so, I think this 'task' is not too hard either.

3&4) Voltage gauge and funky batteries electronic system. As the house is wired in such a way that part of the energy for the hot water system is generated from the photo-electric cells, and the energy collected is used to charge up some batteries, and the batteries might go hay-wire for some unknown reasons, I need to check the voltage meter every morning and evening, need to make sure the Voltage is between 24-26V, and also, need to jot down the Amp/hour. If the Voltage goes lower than 24V, problem is developing, and I'll need to switch it to another set of batteries. Damn cool... :)

Also, as I was working in the office today, I overheard someone's car got stolen. (My colleague's car got stolen about 2 weeks ago too...), so, I was like, damn, I need to get a steering wheel lock/clamp. And I went to get one after work today. Also, at the Autozone, I bought a steering wheel cover and air freshener. The air freshener is so overpowering that I'm pretty sure I'll be choking in it tomorrow. Also, went for groceries, in fact, went to 2 stores for groceries. Trader's Joe for milk, fruits and scones (their blueberry scones are amazing). Then, went to PriceChopper for fish (got the Pollock this time), also a type of whitefish (a term that refers to several types of oceanic deep water fish, like cod, whiting... and pollock.

As I mentioned earlier, I did laundry today, and one interesting thing is, there's no dryer. So, after more than 3 years of not drying clothes by hanging them up on a clothesline, I finally did it today. In fact, I did it in the dark. As it was 9.20pm by the time the washer was done spinning my clothes. (I multitasked a lot after coming back from groceries at about8.10pm. First, I set the rice to cook, at the same time, fed the cats, then, went to check the batteries, the voltage gauge, then, back to check the rice, then, started my load of laundry, and then, had dinner, in between all that, 2 visitors came looking for my roommate, and by the time i'm done with laundry, and all, it was 9.45pm.

Interesting...