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I feel your pain man.
In a 2 month span, I ended digging up my front yard (for the 2nd time in 11 years) to replace the sewer line to the street ($3,500), replace the garage door I backed into ($1,000), the side door to the garage that just crumbled and needed to be replaced by a custom steel door ($890), oh, and the air conditioner compressor motor controller EXPLODED necessitating replacement of the entire air con system ($3,700).
All of that put off a desperately needed new roof on the house.
...and the wife was laid off from her job two weeks before Christmas. 60% of our income evaporated.
I HATE 2015.
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Ouch! That is truly painful.
Marc
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I hope 2016 turns out a lot better.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Oil furnaces are sort of useless when it gets this cold. Takes in -14F air and heats it to maybe 50 or 60 degrees. I guess it keeps the pipes from freezing.
We heat as much as possible with wood; wood-burning insert with blowers in the fireplace.
Largely, I get the wood for free - much need to cut some of it, split, stack, but, good exercise.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: wood-burning insert with blowers in the fireplace.
The only detractor to the house we just but was that it doesn't have a fireplace. My gf would have liked one. 
BTW, we had a cat sighting today. Turns out he seems to be living in a crawlspace (for him, not for me) under the house. So we set up a couple animal traps (not the killing kind!) -- should have done that sooner! -- and hopefully, after the snow and the rain tomorrow, he'll get hungry. Though I couldn't just let him starve tonight -- it's snowing, tomorrow is going to be raining, so I figure he should at least get a meal tonight.
Marc
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It is not clear whet is missing? The girl or the meatballs... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't eat Cheetos...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Apparently programmers prefers teachers[^]
I find lawyers interesting though, it seems white collars and red necks goes together after all.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Apparently programmers prefer teachers
It's the same profession.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Apparently programmers prefers teachers anything female that will talk to them
FTFY!
Obligatory Dilbert[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Experience?
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Ops...My wife not listed...Does it mean I picked the wrong person?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well...you could ask her...but I'd leave it to tomorrow if I was you...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's OK...She doesn't know of Valentine's Day...(I wouldn't either if not for Bob)... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What? Clintons Cards, Ferrero Rocher, and the Florist Mafia haven't invaded Israel? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The only one I know of is 'Ferrero Rocher'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You lucky, lucky, lucky b*st*rd! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or even worse, you picked the wrong occupation
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Now you made me really worried...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I married a Cheerleader who became a Dental Hygienist. Go figure...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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