Then Came The Flood
Last night I went to an annual Halloween party that I've been meaning to attend for years. Every year, this guy tricks out his yard in some unbelievably elaborate manner. This year the theme was Mario. The back of his house had a mock up of a low rez castle. The entry way into his basement was the opening of a pipe and a short maze with fog. And if you pulled a flag, one of the fireball flowers (do they have a name?) rose up and shot out flames. Impressive as all hell.
Then I went to Moto-i for drinks with people of whom I do not see enough. Very pleasant.
I left at 2:00 AM. It started to rain. When I got home and went inside, I thought the rain sounded unusually loud. Oh, fuck no.
One of the hoses on my washing machine had ruptured, and had sprayed water all over my laundry room. My house is too old to have a floor drain. I shut off the valve, then spent about an hour bailing out my laundry room. Then I crashed.
Today has been spent cleaning up the place. It's unclear how much damage has been done. At bare minimum, I'm going to have a hell of a mold and mildew problem. I may have to gut the whole room. The ceiling tiles are shot. Nothing valuable was obviously wrecked, but I had to toss some items of sentimental value. My late dog's old dog bed. A poster my friend's kid made for my 30th birthday. I don't know if the cans of paint have been affected. And I had to redry a couple loads of laundry I had lazily left in the basement.
God fucking damn it, this month has been hard. I'm taking a break, partly because I'm too depressed to continue, partly because I got a headache so bad I thought my head was going to explode. I'll need to hit Home Depot and use some of my remaining gift cards and store credit to get new washing machine hoses and a new ironing board, probably some other things I can't think of right now.
Oh, and my computer is acting up. I've got some sort of bad cluster, RAM failure, critically low on memory and disk space problem. Most of my software doesn't work because the .exe files are corrupted, and I have to reboot constantly. I don't fucking know what to do about it. I'm just wiped out mentally and emotionally.
Fuck you world. Just... fuck you.
I'm performing in Improv-A-Go-Go tonight. Being funny is going to be challenging.
Then I went to Moto-i for drinks with people of whom I do not see enough. Very pleasant.
I left at 2:00 AM. It started to rain. When I got home and went inside, I thought the rain sounded unusually loud. Oh, fuck no.
One of the hoses on my washing machine had ruptured, and had sprayed water all over my laundry room. My house is too old to have a floor drain. I shut off the valve, then spent about an hour bailing out my laundry room. Then I crashed.
Today has been spent cleaning up the place. It's unclear how much damage has been done. At bare minimum, I'm going to have a hell of a mold and mildew problem. I may have to gut the whole room. The ceiling tiles are shot. Nothing valuable was obviously wrecked, but I had to toss some items of sentimental value. My late dog's old dog bed. A poster my friend's kid made for my 30th birthday. I don't know if the cans of paint have been affected. And I had to redry a couple loads of laundry I had lazily left in the basement.
God fucking damn it, this month has been hard. I'm taking a break, partly because I'm too depressed to continue, partly because I got a headache so bad I thought my head was going to explode. I'll need to hit Home Depot and use some of my remaining gift cards and store credit to get new washing machine hoses and a new ironing board, probably some other things I can't think of right now.
Oh, and my computer is acting up. I've got some sort of bad cluster, RAM failure, critically low on memory and disk space problem. Most of my software doesn't work because the .exe files are corrupted, and I have to reboot constantly. I don't fucking know what to do about it. I'm just wiped out mentally and emotionally.
Fuck you world. Just... fuck you.
I'm performing in Improv-A-Go-Go tonight. Being funny is going to be challenging.