Leak

We woke up early to meet Ellie when she arrived. She seemed super excited and couldn’t wait to go to school. She went to her room to get ready and came back down to tell us that her carpet was wet. I went to check and it was clear that the radiator bleed valve had been leaking since I bled the radiators on Saturday. I closed it properly (and double-checked for any more leaks). Then, I grabbed the carpet spot cleaner and started to vacuum the water from the carpet. It took a while, but I did come back to it later in the morning and it had worked!

Panic over, we took Ellie to class, and then Diane headed home while I went for a walk before breakfast.

In the morning, Chris and Maureen dropped by for a coffee. We hung out and chatted for a couple of hours. They told us all about their Christmas cruise on MV Victoria. They had a great time, but they said they wouldn’t do it again. I have to say, nothing they said made us want to sail on her. It was so nice to catch up with them. It’s been a while since we last hung out.

After lunch, I downloaded ooRexx to my MacBook and copied the program I had been writing yesterday.  I started to rerun the tests from yesterday and,  obviously, got the same results. Now that I knew I could use the MacBook for coding and testing, I decided to return to the problem after Ellie was back from school.

We had a very short Kindle time before walking to school to collect Ellie. We stopped at the park on the way home so she could let off steam and then headed home. While Ellie practised her times table, I returned to my program and managed to debug the outstanding issue from last night. Of the four rules that constrain its selection process, two are now accommodated. The last two rules will be more of a challenge because I haven't yet got any inkling of how I'll handle them. That's a problem for another day.  

Ellie will be staying with us overnight.