Les Bonnes Choses

Update on yesterday's post. Our agent received an email from the buyer regarding the result of the home inspection (the offer was conditional on the results of the inspection). Everything inside the house was fine (including my DIY basement), but not so great outside of the house. The roof apparently shows more wear than would be expected of a 6 year old house. They buyers are sending a roofing specialist up to give a more detailed assessment today. I hope this is covered under our new home warranty.

In other news, the low-frequency hum that I have been experiencing in my right ear for the last two weeks hasn't kicked in so far today -- if you have a set of computer speakers with a sub-woofer, turn up the volume really loud -- the hum you hear coming out of the sub-woofer basically matches what I've been hearing in my ear 24 hours a day for the last couple of weeks.

And what did the doctor say about this problem, you ask? Good question. I went to the UWO walk-in because our family doctor was inconveniently away and I was on the verge of perforating my eardrum in order to deliberately deafen myself. The doctor was perplexed by my apparently healthy ear and said she'd call back later in the day with a referral to a specialist. That was two weeks ago, which brings to mind the time that I wore some contraption to monitor a heart arrhythmia, or the time I had my ribs X-rayed because of a likely fracture: neither was there any follow-up on either of those occasions. Of course, because we have a universal health-care system, none of these incidents cost me a cent. Unfortunately, where health care is concerned, it appears that I have been getting what I paid for.