Just wittering....

Had the superintendant in last night to check a few things. The kitchen light fixture had to be wobbled a bit for the light to come on. He said it was probably the (new) cfl bulb. It's possible i guess. I replaced it with a standard type bulb for now and we'll see how it goes. The toilet was starting to wobble so he tightened that up and is going to come in today and recaulk around the tub. I also need a work order for a damp patch in the wall by the tub, something that reoccurs regularly and has to be repatched every few years. So that's all sorted.

Gym yesterday. am a bit creaky today but i have a massage at 11:30.

Woke up about 5:15 from a .... not a nightmare exactly but a dream that made me jump awake. It was close enough to wakeup time that i didn't think i'd get back to sleep and i got thinking about something else as well and ended up getting up early, showering and going to the computer to see if i could find an online pdf editor. found one that lets you convert to a Word document which is then editable and that was exactly what i'm going to need so that put my mind at rest about that issue. (Someone was supposed to send me an editable copy of a document before they left town and they didn't. all i had was the pdf of it)

Good use of a vacant property: There was a 6 screen theatre/cinema complex in Dartmouth that closed out when a new and larger one was built in the Dartmouth Crossing retail park development. The building is a good size one, and is located by a huge grocery store. It's got loads of free parking. The city bought it and has renovated it to move a nearby library branch into it. The old library was a very small cubbyhole, basically just one big room full of crammed in bookshelves. What a difference this is going to make! THey'll use one of the cinemas as an auditorium i think, and i imagine they'll have a computer area too. They're taking a month to move and hook everything up and the old branch in Woodlawn will be closed while this is ongoing. I think this is a really good use of that old building and a very much needed thing for the library.

Meanwhile the main central branch of the library in Halifax is also overcrowded and old and damp and it's been an ongoing political football for years as to what to do with it. Someone left the city a goodly sum of money some years ago and specified it was for a new library in the city centre. Only they couldn't agree where to put it so in the end they used the legacy to build a new branch out in a growing area called Clayton Park. It's very nice but the city centre still needs one. I think it's getting close to a resolution, though. Across the street from the old art deco building that the library is in was a hospital that closed down 10 years ago. The building has been demolished leaving a large vacant lot. The Province owns the land and i think there has finally been a swop with the City for a few other old properties, one being a high school that was shut down when a new one was built so it looks like we could have a nice, shiny new library in the city centre. It will still probably take a few years, there will be tenders and architectural competitions probably but they are one step closer.

I used to go to the library a lot but i don't much these days. I should, really, considering how much money i spend on books.