water water everywhere but not a drop to drink

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Wednesday night was further confirmation that I have no talent whatsoever for such real-world skills as plumbing. We had spent the whole evening moving everything out of the kitchen due to someone coming in the next day to refinish its hardwood floor. By the way, if you ever think of putting a hardwood floor in your kitchen, don’t. Maybe the house’s original owners all had the superpower of complete mastery over water spills. I discovered that I have no such power when it came to moving the fridge out. First, I had to disconnect its water line, which I had completely turned off 24 hours before as recommended. At least I thought I had and as I started unscrewing the line, I figured that the slight seepage was leftover water flowing back out. When the line completely came off, I found how wrong I was. I did manage to completely and truly turn things off before anything more than a bucket’s worth of water had poured out.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I stay away from plumbing-related tasks.

Besides that, I’ve been busy with an office project to validate that our backup server could be used, should the real server croak. It had been on my to-do list for some time, but other tasks of a more pressing nature meant putting it off. Last week though we had a situation where the backup server came close to being very much needed. That convinced my manager to rearrange my task list.

Anything else? Well, tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of my becoming an American citizen, a decision I haven’t regretted in spite of the White House’s current residents. That probably means a day of attacking the backyard’s overgrown weeds, followed by dinner at the nearby Flying Star.