Update

Taxes are done, e-Filing is successful, returns have been accepted. Barring an audit, we should see our federal return before the end of the month. There are, of course, enough things we'd like to do with the money to spend it four or five times over, but that's normal.

teeka messaged me earlier to say she found out why MG&E had been drawing lines all over the neighborhood. They're replacing sacrificial anodes on the underground lines.

I finally got around to googling how to mount NTFS drives as folders, so now all six of the card readers on my work computers are mounted as folders in my C: drive, and I have free drive letters again.

Friday one of the women on the bus declared that my brain scares her. Somehow, we got on the topic of laundry, and one of the other people (Nancy) said that she's got red pants, that, even after four years of washing, still bleed. I told Nancy to look up Dharma Trading, as they're supposed to have some good products to reset dyes. This led to a round of "How do you know that?" followed by the declaration that my brain is scary.

Where there's smoke....

... Sometimes there isn't anything.

I was working in one of the grad student offices this afternoon, and when I came back from going upstairs to get the shop vac, I smelled smoke. A very strong smell of wood/paper smoke. The grad students in the office agreed in both intensity and type of smoke (and that it was different from Friday's electrical/rubber smoke).

After looking in every room in the part of the building that I could smell smoke in, and not finding anything (i.e. - go up to door, feel for heat, open door slowly, look inside), I called UWPD to see what they recommended, as I wasn't sure it needed a building-wide fire alarm. Their dispatcher and I discussed it for a few minutes, and we decided that pulling an alarms was best, as that way, when MFD got there, if they found anything, everyone'd already be out of the building.

I've always wanted to be able to get away with pulling a fire alarm.

Eventually, a UWPD officer arrived, and we looked around, and by that time, the smell was dissipating. A few minutes later the fire trucks rolled in, and they all looked around, and we still didn't find anything.

Two smoke events in four days, and both strong enough to smell, but not strong enough to trip a smoke detector. This is beginning to be one of those "I wish something would burst into flame so we can find it and fix it" problems.