Experiments in Life

After our previous water problems were fixed, I expected that life would return to normal. To my surprise, I was greeted by half a dozen representatives of the water company, a representative of the cable company, a representative of the power company, and a backhoe when I got home from work on Friday. The line feeding our house had developed a leak, presumably from the increase in water pressure from fixing the prior leak. Thankfully, the backhoe was digging up part of the yard across the street and not my yard. All of the people present just made it a little difficult to get into our driveway. Since it was late on a Friday afternoon, they just jumped a small rubber line from our neighbors feed into ours and left. We were without water for 10 minutes or so, but I assumed that they would be back Monday to fix the problem.

Monday and Tuesday come and go with people out in our front yard digging around. However, there was no visible change to my eyes. The rubber jump line still went from our neighbors water line to ours. This morning proved to be a little different. I got up and my normal time and got in the shower. Halfway through the shower, the water was cut off. After letting fly a few choice expletives, I realized that there was not much I could do about it, dried off, and set about trying to gather up everything I would need for work, checking the water every few minutes to see if it was cut on again. After about 20 minutes, the water finally was cut back on. I peeked out the window and saw the water reps. filling back in the holes that they had made. I quickly jumped back in the shower so that I could finish getting ready for work. As I left for work, the workers were still filling in holes, but it looks like our water line has been repaired. Hopefully, we will not have to go through this again anytime soon.

Ever since we got back from Oregon, I have been looking for a way to use some of the pictures that we took on our trip. Now, one of them has been integrated into the new look of this site. There may be some subtle changes to the look of the site over the next several days as I tweak colors, but so far I like the look of it enough to go live.

This is just what you want to happen when you get home at 10:45 pm. I went to go wash my hands and… nothing. No water anywhere in the house. I called the water company and apparently a water main burst a mile or two from our house. Supposably it will be fixed by the morning.

Update: Well, my acute hearing woke me up at 1:00 am when the toilet tank started refilling. When I got up to investigate, the water pressure was slowly starting to come back. This morning, it appears that our water pressure is better than it has been in weeks.