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Monday, when we were leaving for work, we noticed the
street in front of our house (running under the Subaru) was wet. Not
standing water, but like when a hose runs over a little bit. Didn't really
think anything of it until we got home and noticed that the same spot was
still there. We go up to our water meter box thingie (in the sidewalk
strip) and there's water pooled a little bit in the rocks around it. Sal
lifts the cover and the meter is submerged in water. Great.
It wasn't like a major leak or anything, but obviously,
Something Was Not Right. We called the City but they couldn't come out
until yesterday, and they determine that the leak was on our side of the
meter, not theirs, so it was up to us to fix it. I call a plumbing company
we use at work, they're great and are willing to give me our work
discount, but they can't come out until today. And they didn't know what
time today, which necessitated me working from home so I could be here.
Hooray for telecommuting, at least.
Well, they came around 1:30 and have determined that we
need to have a new main line run from our meter to our house. The leak is
somewhere behind the big foundation wall in front of our house (our worst
suspicion) and to repair it would involve tearing down that wall, digging
down to freaking China, and having a structural engineer oversee
rebuilding the wall, not to mention having to replace the sidewalk. In
other words, it was cheaper to replace the entire line (they can just bore
alongside the old one and without having to dig anything up, thank
goodness) than to try to find the link and repair it. The good news is
that they'll be able to start and finish it tomorrow. The bad news is that
Sal and I are going to have to sell a kidney. It's probably my turn, since
he sold one of his for the last major financial disaster.
So I stay home today and just because today couldn't
possibly be any worse, I woke up this morning to a house with no heat. In
fact, that's why I woke up AT FIVE AM A FULL HOUR EARLIER THAN MY USUAL
TIME BECAUSE THE ICE ON MY PILLOW WASN'T VERY CONDUCIVE TO SLEEP AND MY
NOSE WAS DEVELOPING FROSTBITE AND I THINK I SAW A DUSTBUNNY ICE CUBE.
Something's wrong with the thermostat, although I gave up trying to figure
out exactly what around 11:30 and have since been working from the dining
room table with a space heater and blanket wrapped around me all day. As
of right now, it's slightly warmer outside our house than inside. Sal's
going to try to get that fixed tonight so hopefully we won't freeze to
death. But if you read about a couple of Hall-sicles in the news, you'll
know what happened.
And finally, our cable modem was down not once but THREE
SEPARATE TIMES today, although I was able to get that working again AFTER
MUCH SCREAMING AND HURLING ABOUT OF THINGS. Poor Sal, who had to listen to
me have a breakdown over the phone and who cut his day short at work to
try to save me from our house, which is trying to kill me.
But, BUT! I have been working diligently on my work stuff.
DEAR EMPLOYERS NEVER FEAR I HAVE BEEN A PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEE DESPITE ALL
THE WOE THAT IS MY LIFE AT THE MOMENT AND SERIOUSLY YOU SHOULD TOTALLY BE
GLAD I'M SO DEDICATED BECAUSE OMG WOE KTHXBYE.
In conclusion life hates me the end.
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