Dolfin 85% Belgium

Sarah got me a taster chocolate bar.  It smells like Valrhona.  It tastes better than Valrhona, deeper flavour.  But it is not worth the money.

Emergency Boiler Programming

The boiler has been running a lot lately, and we were roasted at night.  I am convinced it was not the thermostat's problem, so I attended the boiler.  I found a few reference on the internet about idle time, etc, so I reprogrammed the boiler as such.  I also found out about adjusting the maximum temperature allowed for the dial, so I turned down the temperature even without the turn dial, as it has snapped.  Let's hope I have optimized the setting for my needs.

Flooding Dangerously Close

Yan jokingly asked if I was flooded.  Aire has also burst its bank.  Kirkstall and city centre was flooded.  York has also flooded.  Let's hope the water don't get any closer.

ISP Move

The introductory offer has come to an end, I signed up with another ISP.  The migration was scheduled just before Christmas, and I was away the few days before hand.  When I got home, I had a delivery slip about the new router, and we went straight there to pick it up.  When I got home, the old ISP already terminated the service, and luckily we got the router and all was working.  If I had missed the delivery, and the post office shut over long weekend over Christmas, it would be nightmare to find any entertainment.  What a close shave.

Cookies

I thought I will mop up some junks in the computer, I went to delete some history and cookies.  Initially I was deleting cookies one by one, then I realised there were tons of them, and even some of those had not been used for years, were yet to be removed.  I just deleted all my cookies.  I will just have to endure putting in password everywhere.  Also, I should try to do this regularly.

Christmas Service

We were thinking about going to midnight mass, then we ended up going to the Christmas Evening sung service.  As I put it, the most painless.  We went to York Minster.  I was skeptical about the parking situation, although I was assured, "Surely, they will not ticket you on Christmas." 

I was sure York would be completely dead, but there were a few shops, mostly souvenirs shops and pubs open for the tourists, Chinese tourists.

We arrived at the minster just in time for the start of the service.  And there were tons of people arrived late, which was quite impolite.  I wanted to see the restored East Window, but it still wasn't done.  When they passed the basket, I did put some money in.


When we got back to the car, we did pay, but it didn't ask for my paid ticket.  Maybe next time I will try before I pay.

Sarah has an idea that we have to go to different church to have services each Christmas, we shall see about that.

Carol

I have been wanting to watch Carol since it came out.  By now there were only a few Vue showing Carol.  We went into town Christmas Eve.  The town was empty and it was so easy to park.

I have the book, the Price of Salt.  I found it too boring and abandoned it.  The movie was well made, good story.  I may pick up the book again.