I think itโ€™s the 31-year old fridge thatโ€™s calling it quits ๐ŸงŠ

I think thatโ€™s what the occasional clicking noise I am hearing downstairs, especially now that Iโ€™m noticing it with what sounds like the slowing of the refrigerator compressor. I noticed things werenโ€™t as frozen solid this morning in the freezer.

Out for the morning walk in the cold โ„๏ธ. Still very much winter outside. But I really like the morning walk ๐Ÿšถ and today wasnโ€™t quite as bitterly cold. First day of the legislative session, traffic is backed up going through the Plaza. ๐Ÿซ

Last night I walked around the plaza until 6:15 PM, as I participated in the Save the Pine Bush Zoom meeting. ๐Ÿ“น Came home and had dinner, investigated the clicking noise, started to clean out around the refrigerator. After listening ๐Ÿ‘‚ a while to the refrigerator, noting the compressor slowed after that occasional click, I am sure that is what it is. The refrigerator was manufactured in April 1994, so itโ€™s 31 years old and itโ€™s a no name Roper brand, so Iโ€™m sure itโ€™s tired and old. Back in 1994 was I was in fifth or sixth grade and that was a long time ago.

Going to email the landlord and request refrigerator service on Monday. ๐Ÿ”ง  I donโ€™t like the fact that the new landlord isnโ€™t reachable by phone in emergency, but the flip side is I can submit service requests in writing, which means no uncomfortable conversations and protects my rights. โœ๏ธ This weekend Iโ€™ll use it to scrub down the kitchen and clean out the refrigerator. I donโ€™t have that much stuff in the refrigerator right now, and if itโ€™s not keeping itโ€™s cool, itโ€™s certainly cold out enough this time of year, I can load up a cooler and stick the frozen goods in my truck, and use the freezer with ice blocks. Iโ€™ve been needing to do some good cleaning, ๐Ÿงผ as that did not get done while I was so sick ๐Ÿค’ over the Christmas holiday. I turned the temperature lower on the fridge before work and put some of the freezer stuff in the cooler but Iโ€™m not hopeful about the refrigerator.

One advantage to renting is that I wonโ€™t be immediately out of $1,000 plus bucks for the refrigerator, though Iโ€™m sure rent will probably be going up in June when I get notice next month. As much as donโ€™t like how my rent went up to $800 last June, Iโ€™m paying well below market rate at this point for the Albany area, but thatโ€™s in part because Iโ€™ve lived here so long and things are diapolated. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Of course this means the landlord will discover how dumpy this apartment is and how I havenโ€™t always taken perfectly good care of it or kept it clean, but the worse that can happen is I have to move to some place less dumpy after 17 1/2 years. That said, I doubt theyโ€™ll kick me out, as Iโ€™ve always paid my rent on time. And the last service call to the landlord ๐Ÿ“ž was four years ago.

That said, I was much too upset about the refrigerator calling it quits after 31 years, ๐Ÿ as I never like the landlord over to see how much Iโ€™ve trashed the building over the years but the truth is itโ€™s not all my fault that I should have been more proactive about the mold issue and the leaky sink traps a decade and a half ago. Things would be a lot rusty and dirty but regardless the unit is due for renovation as everything in there is probably three decades old and itโ€™s not like I ask for every little thing to be perfect ๐Ÿ‘Œ. Plus I make good money and have been saving and investing for a decade now and my net worth is fairly good for my age, and I could go out and buy a house with cash tomorrow if I sold some stock and thatโ€™s  what I really wanted. ๐Ÿก

I just suffer from a sort of imposter syndrome at times. ๐Ÿ˜ฏ While I donโ€™t watch the news ๐Ÿ“ฐ every day, Iโ€™m well aware of all the risks out there from scammers, criminals, tax men and the cops. ๐Ÿ‘ฎ There are a lot of people out there who want to tear you down and whack you over in the head. ๐ŸฅŠ Itโ€™s tough taking over an agency, supervising employees many of whom have decades more experience. Plus everybody is lobbying you for their pet projects and I have my own. ๐Ÿถ Most of my supervisors and colleagues work five miles away downtown. ๐ŸขI try to protect myself however I can but there is so much scary things out there in the world. ๐Ÿ‘ป And the spector of homelessness always crosses my mind.

I was excited that one of the big commercial vendor contracts came through at work, ๐Ÿ’พ and we got a big data dump to upload into our database and link to the content. I am envisioning making our agency a big data powerhouse that empowers the Assemblymembers to do relevant, targeted communications in all forms, based on a wide variety of information on the constituencies that they represent. So much data to link together and tag. ๐Ÿ”–I actually really like that part of the job as itโ€™s interesting linking ๐Ÿ”— data together, cleaning and processing it. Far more interesting than address corrections and running district wide lists. ๐Ÿ“ƒ

Yesterday, I was actually processing Plattsburgh State Students data ๐ŸŽ“ and noticing how many of the current year students were born in 2005 and 2006 the years when I attended Plattsburgh State. Itโ€™s hard to think it was that long ago. Yesterday was momโ€™s 76th birthday and dad is turning 78 this year. ๐Ÿ‘ด I was thinking that 31 year old fridge represents a time period between now and my 73rd birthday ๐ŸŽ‚. My god time goes by quickly. 18 years ago today, I was an intern with than Assemblymember Joe Morelle, that Rochester polymath and power broker. Doesnโ€™t seem that long ago these days. That short guy with his Italian ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น mouth scared the shit out of my little intern eyes. Come the 29th Iโ€™ll be only 13 years from my 55th birthday and if I want to hang my hat ๐ŸŽฉ up from the state at that point I certainly can. But first I really want to expand the targeting capacity of my agency.

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