Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[EasternGirl]

Oh...my son has never learned to use the hamper...I'm not sure what he thinks it is...that thing in the corner that his mother puts the clothes that he leaves on the floor into perhaps? He does clean his room...because every night before he goes to bed, I freak out and tell him that he better start cleaning up because I am not his maid. He knows I'm a neat freak so I don't worry about him getting to be too messy...but then again, I am aware of how disgusting teenagers can be. I did my fair share of leaving food and drinks around when I was a teenager and having a very messy room, to say the least.

[kibakiba]

[angrygamer]

I always wondered where your avatar came from.


So I went to bed at about 11:45 last night. I had to take a leak at about 2:30. I walk to the bathroom, do my thing, and as I'm walking back to bed I realize that I had already waded in two inches of water. The hose running from the wall to the toilet at the toilet broke. Cheap PVC bolt.

At least two inches of water built up. My whole floor is soaked. I was able to turn the valve off. I called the landlord, he'll fix it this morning.

So there I was, at three in the morning scooping water out of my apartment front door. The front door isn't completely flush with the floor, it's off the ground about 4 inches and there is a riser that is part of the frame. This didn't help much as it kept the water trapped inside the apartment. Also, the apartment is at ground level and sits at an uneven gradient, and the incline runs (you guessed it) toward the door. If that stupid riser hadn't been there and they built the door to be flush with the ground, the water would have flowed under the door, going safely outside.

Glyph has been my first priority, and he is safe and sound. I have a blanket covering up the front of his tank, and if you've been following my saga you'll know my landlord doesn't know about him yet - I haven't found the right time to tell him, and honestly this is not one of those times. Plus I'm worried about the extra moisture in the air, and the front door is open to try and get the water to evaporate.

I have a bunch of boxes under my bed that I know got wet, I haven't been able to pull them out yet but I think the cardboard did a good job of stopping a lot of the water. I have an old pentium P4 that is my backup computer that was on the floor of the closet currently being dried with a fan it got a little wet. Some clothes got wet. I have 2 small car amps under a shelf on the floor that I haven't checked out yet. Those should be easy to dry. I had just bought a new pack of toilet paper, never opened, and it got wet. That made me mad, I was thinking, "$5 bucks for a pack of toilet paper, and they can't even seal the package right!" Of course, I was mad at the whole thing happening, but grr. Just grr.

[mikem]

that sounds like a headache and a half not something i've experienced (knock on wood). good luck with your clean up. hope all your stuff is safe!

[angrygamer]

that sounds like a headache and a half not something i've experienced (knock on wood). good luck with your clean up. hope all your stuff is safe!

Thanks. He just fixed it, in all of 10 minutes.

I think most of my stuff is safe, I haven't recounted everything but I've been dealing with this rude awakening since 2:30.

I had a few things to do today, major tank cleaning was on the list but it can wait a few days. Also, I was going to put some coco husk down as substrate that was finishing drying, the water didn't really get to it very much but I think I'll have to run some of it through the oven again.

My dad's got a wet/dry vac hopefully he can lend me tonight.

[EasternGirl]

Yep...Travis, that sounds like a major, major pain in the arse. I would have freaked. I would have been screaming at my landlord...but I am not one to handle stress very well. I can handle a crisis when it comes to other people...but when it comes to stuff that causes me stress in my personal life...um, no. All in all it sounds like you took it all pretty well. Props to you for that.

[guidofatherof5]

Bought my son a new Ipod I-touch for Christmas
Today someone took it from his locker at school.
Stinkin' thief.

[chris-uk]

Bought my son a new Ipod I-touch for Christmas
Today someone took it from his locker at school.
Stinkin' thief.

He won't be making any more video calls then? More constructively, is there a mechanism to lock an iPod Touch? Personally, I avoid Apple like the plague, but somewhere that their locked down hardware/software model must have an advantage is in finding stolen devices - my Android phone can be tracked and remotely wiped if I loose it, I'd be surprised if Apple missed this trick. Someone else on here will be an Apple nut (law of averages, there has to be one amongst the regulars) so hopefully there'll be some more specific advice, my guess is there may be an iTunes option.
Other than that, check some of the results if you Google things like "iPod remote lock", "locate iPod lost stolen"... You get the drift.

Shame you can't call in a favour from former colleagues and get a k9 unit down to the school to sniff out the thieving mongral.

[EasternGirl]

That is just horrible Steve. I hope you talked to the prinicipal. Guess I just decided not to let my son take his ipod to school.

[angrygamer]

Yep...Travis, that sounds like a major, major pain in the arse. I would have freaked. I would have been screaming at my landlord...but I am not one to handle stress very well. I can handle a crisis when it comes to other people...but when it comes to stuff that causes me stress in my personal life...um, no. All in all it sounds like you took it all pretty well. Props to you for that.

I didn't see this coming. I went all the way to the bathroom trudging though water, did my business and it wasn't until I was a foot from my bed on the way back that I realized I was standing in water...and even then, it took a minute or so for it to hit me...I still thought I was dreaming.

I'll survive, I've got some wet clothes...I was planning on doing laundry either today or tomorrow anyway. A neighbor thinks it's going to smell, I don't know. Luckily, I have the thin kind of carpet that you lay down in an office...so it's not like a rug.

My dad is dropping off a wet/dry vac in an hour or so, and then I'll move all the boxes out from under my bed and see how bad it is under there.

The culprit:

Bought my son a new Ipod I-touch for Christmas
Today someone took it from his locker at school.
Stinkin' thief.

Now that just sucks. Last summer I left a brand new cell phone on the city bus...sure would have been nice of someone to return it. I hope they enjoyed that last hour of airtime!!!


A few years ago I was practically homeless (long story) and I had found a few purses and jackets with wallets in them on the university campus, and I'd always turn them in.