SysNoise

I am so glad this weekend is over

Let me begin with Tuesday night.

Tuesday it rained, all day! So the wife and I are about to go to bed when I notice a wet spot in the hall way floor. It seems we have a leak in the roof. Great stuff. I tell Rachel, "I will just take tomorrow afternoon off and fix it",

Wednesday, Get to work, tell Jim, "I need this afternoon off so I can fix the hole in my roof", Jim says, "Not unless you can come in tonight and make up the time". Hmmmm, I cannot work wednesday night because that is when Cherish has Kung-Fu and I go with her. So I get pissed, and end up working wednesday afternoon. No roof fix.

Thursday, I work for Joe till about noon when I come home for lunch, I get here and my father is outside looking at the breaker box. I figure he is being a nice guy and going to fix the roof, though I don't really know why he would be looking at the breaker box. He tells me, "You have no hot water". Well isn't that just great. We look at alot of stuff and he tells me that he thinks we have a busted pipe under the house, and since him and I forgot to cut a trap door when we laid the hardwood floor, we will now have to cut a large hole in my nice floor. I say wait, lets call a plumber and see what they say.

Thursday, Later in the day. I go ahead and call in to the library, though I know Jim will think I am just doing it because he pissed me off. Well, the plumbers show and say, "Your hot water tank is busted and since the fool who put it in did not leave enough room for it to get out, you will have to knock a hole in the wall.", well now things are starting to really look down. They tell me that they will leave and for me to knock the hole in the wall, go buy a new tank and call them back when we get it. I start beating the hole in the wall. I don't really get to far, but get enough done, and my father and I go get a tank, and decide to finish tomorrow.

Friday, I have to work for Joe for a few hours in the morning. I get back home and my father has not yet started working so I wait for him to show. We work most of the day and the only thing that gets done is we relize we don't have all the parts, and we have to replace the floor also where the tank is. This is a fucking great week.

Saturday, We lay the new floor, finish buying the pieces we need, and get it all put together. Lets turn the water on. Oh shit, we have leaks! Now we have to CUT the pipes back off because we sodered them together, and now have no way to tighten them back up. So I run to the store to get the pieces needed to finish. We get everything back together and no leaks. It is now time to finish for the day. We will have to continue tomorrow but at least the tank is in and we have hot water again downstairs. The wife and I watch "Super Size Me".

Sunday, we still have to make a door, and fix the roof. Did both of these today and started all the clean up. Got alot of the finishing done to everything and only need to finish cleaning the office and fixing the last bit of hole. What a week. I love being a home owner :-)

John