It's Frisket's birthday today, she turns four.  For her birthday she slept in on the bed and then took a walk around the neighborhood. 

I had a post all written up in my head about the flight back from Fort Lauderdale but ended up never actually writing it down.  Suffice to say, while the flight itself was ok, it didn't take off until 9:00, but boarded at 7:45 (was scheduled to depart at 7:36p.m.).  On arriving home I discovered the newly installed hot water heater had gone out and we had no hot water.  After some tossing and turning worrying over whether there was a gas leak in the basement, I did the questionably smart thing and went down (at 2:00 a.m.), opened up the basement door, turned on the flashlight outside and descended.  Didn't smell any gas, the pilot had just gone out.  Rather than try to figure out how to relight it, I just turned off the gas feed to the heater and returned to bed.

After getting some sleep I did relight the pilot and all seems well, hasn't gone out since.

Am trying out ecto for blog editing again.  I'm tired of writing in HTML, though ecto seems to be either Rich Text or HTML, you can't easily swap between the two (it strips out HTML tags it doesn't understand apparently).

Otherwise not much going on.  No travel planned for February, no major events.  I'm sure that will change but am presently enjoying the blank slate of the month while it lasts.