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It seems that it's going to be one of those weeks.
After the sadly small amount of sleep I got yesterday, you'd think I'd be able to fall asleep at a decent hour last night. You'd think wrong. I got to sleep somewhere between 5:30 and 6:00 this morning. And that despite the fact that I hadn't had internet since about 1:00.
I get woken up about 5 hours later by the telephone. KK needs me to post whatever files I've got finished for the job I'm working on.
Except that I still have no internet. So I call KK back to let him know that I'll get files posted either when my internet is back up, or when I get to the coffee shop.
However, I can't call Comcast yet to find out when the connection will be back up, because first I have to call the apartment office to tell them that my water heater is leaking.
The internet is obviously back up, now, and I've got two guys up in my attic. Our current maintenance guys are a father and son team, both Hispanic. The son is reasonably bilingual. The father is not, and only speaks limited English.
One word he does know, though, is "kitty." And call me strange (because I am), but if I'm going to have someone I don't particularly know coming in and out of my apartment on occasion, I'd much rather have someone who loves cats (unlike Creepy Old Drunk Guy, who never even acknowledged her). And he does; at one point, when son ran out to get something, he was crawling around on the floor after her, which had me grinning. Unfortunately, she seems to be afraid of him.
So now, they're going to replace my water heater, which involves draining it, hauling it down the ladder from the attic, hauling a new one up, and hooking it up, during which I'll have no water.
Better this than having it burst and flood everything, though.
After the sadly small amount of sleep I got yesterday, you'd think I'd be able to fall asleep at a decent hour last night. You'd think wrong. I got to sleep somewhere between 5:30 and 6:00 this morning. And that despite the fact that I hadn't had internet since about 1:00.
I get woken up about 5 hours later by the telephone. KK needs me to post whatever files I've got finished for the job I'm working on.
Except that I still have no internet. So I call KK back to let him know that I'll get files posted either when my internet is back up, or when I get to the coffee shop.
However, I can't call Comcast yet to find out when the connection will be back up, because first I have to call the apartment office to tell them that my water heater is leaking.
The internet is obviously back up, now, and I've got two guys up in my attic. Our current maintenance guys are a father and son team, both Hispanic. The son is reasonably bilingual. The father is not, and only speaks limited English.
One word he does know, though, is "kitty." And call me strange (because I am), but if I'm going to have someone I don't particularly know coming in and out of my apartment on occasion, I'd much rather have someone who loves cats (unlike Creepy Old Drunk Guy, who never even acknowledged her). And he does; at one point, when son ran out to get something, he was crawling around on the floor after her, which had me grinning. Unfortunately, she seems to be afraid of him.
So now, they're going to replace my water heater, which involves draining it, hauling it down the ladder from the attic, hauling a new one up, and hooking it up, during which I'll have no water.
Better this than having it burst and flood everything, though.