It's Deep and Cold too...

Well, we got about 6-8 inches of snow here today. That is the most in one day since we moved here. When Pam got home from work, I had shoveled a walk/tire track in the driveway snow for her to try and get the car in the garage. That almost worked... She got stuck about 1/2 of the way up and had to back down while I did some more shoveling to create the other tire track. Then, she tried it again but couldn't get the car going and got stuck on the road. So, I went down and pushed her and she was able to finally get it up the driveway and in the garage. She has driven snow for a long time and knows how to do it well. After that, She shoveled a path clean for her to get out in the morning, as the forecast was for much more snow. I installed chains on her car for the morning commute. They were new ones from Costco and were a total pain to get on. Once I figured out how to do it right, it went pretty well, but it still took about an hour and reminded me of another trip to Idaho from long ago...

Then, a neighbor stopped by later on with his 4X4 four wheeler with a snow shovel on it and cleaned the entire driveway off for free. What a nice guy. He wouldn't take any payment for all the work, but Pam fixed him a nice cup of hot chocolate for his efforts.

The new case got here for the Home Server machine and I installed it last night. It all went great and this new case is a good one. Lots of internal drive space and big fans to keep it all cool in the wiring cabinet closet.

The new Emachine is being replaced by Best Buys as the hard disk is fried. It was a hassle to get it done with the Geek Squad, but all is good at this point.

I finally found the source of the nasty hum in the bedroom. I did have to go under the house and finally found the problem. It is a Radon/Crawl space fan that basically sucks all the air out of the crawl space and blows it out keeping the crawl space warm and dry. I never even knew we had such a fan, but now I do. It has a 5 year warranty and we have only been in the house for less than 4 years, so I am going to try and get it replaced under warranty. The problem is that the contractor that installed it is long gone so it will probably be fun...

Well, tomorrow should be 'interesting'. I will report on how it goes here in DaHo...