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August 16, 2005
Birthdays, leaking ceilings, and hanging out
Today was a long day. So, yesterday afternoon, I was sitting at my computer, and I felt water dripping on my head. It took me a few seconds to realize this was not Richard behind me dripping water on my head. Water was dripping from the hanging light in the dining room (which is my office). Not lightly dripping, but dripping a relative lot.
We made sure that there was no water running upstairs, and we called the emergency maintenance number. About 45 minutes later, one of the maintenance guys showed up, and said, yep, there's water. He went upstairs, and the floor in the bathroom was completely dry. Toilet seemed fine, and the bathtub/shower seemed fine. No one had run any water upstairs for several hours before this.
Since our unit has two full baths, it wasn't deemed an emergency, and we were told not to shower until a plumber could come out tomorrow. Now, I assumed that this would be an issue that would warrant 9am attention, so I made sure that we were both up and dressed by 9am.
We waited and waited and waited. I had postal errands to run that had to be done today, so I called the front office at 11:30 and was told, oh I just put in the request, someone will be by there between 2pm and 4pm. Ooooookay. So we went to the post office, which sucked, but that's another story.
When we got back, there was a note on the door that my Amazon order was left at the front office. I walked up there, got the box, came back and checked the mail to see if the bean pies I'd ordered for Adam's birthday today had arrived. They had not. I don't know if Your Black Muslim Bakery is no longer taking web orders or what, but it's pretty annoying considering I placed my order last Wednesday and requested express shipping.
Anyway, at around 3:30 one of the maintenance guys shows up. We told him what had happened, that we'd been showering there for 2 weeks and no problems, and that the water just came dripping out of that light fixture. He went upstairs, filled the bathtub, went to get a taller ladder, and let the water drain from the tub. No leaking.
He took the light fixture housing down and said it was bone dry up there. We all noted a hairline crack in the ceiling, and I mentioned that I can hear it really loudly whenever they flush next door. The prevailing theory, since we couldn't reproduce the leak with our own plumbing, is that the toilet may have overflowed next door. And. Was. Leaking. On. My. HEAD. EWWWWWWW!
Fortunately the shower moratorium was lifted and I quickly went to scrub the slime off myself :) Then we met Adam and Leslie at Canyons and had a delightful meal, despite them trying to kill Leslie with a blackened cajun chicken breast. Then we went to ColdStone and had some birthday dessert. After that we went back to Leslie and Adam's and hung out for a while, and discussed going to Mt. Rainier sometime soon (while it's still warm), and going out to Levenworth in October. Yay!
Life is good, tomorrow, or later today I guess, Leslie and I go to see Liz Phair at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle. Hopefully it will not suck :)
Posted by jodikins at August 16, 2005 12:03 AM