{"id":243,"date":"2008-07-08T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-07-08T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:10:08","slug":"it-could-have-been-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/it-could-have-been-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"It Could Have Been Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, dear internet, get ready for a flurry of posts. We have so<\/em> much to tell you! It’s time for some catching up. To start off, about 3 weeks ago, we had a heck of a weekend.<\/p>\n

1.<\/span> On Friday, I was running an errand for work with Joshua. I stopped near Burnet and 183 for an ambulance, but the guy behind me didn’t stop in time. Here was the result:<\/p>\n

\"Smashed<\/p>\n

Our poor 1997 Honda Civic was totaled. It’s a real shame — I would have gladly driven that car for another 10 years. But we did get a nice settlement from the insurance co., and it’s all working out well. No one was hurt, so it could have been worse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2.<\/span> One of our servers for work is located in a facility downtown Austin. Since we got set up there, I have only had to go down to the facility a handful of times; if something goes wrong with that server, I can just connect to it remotely and fix the problem. But Friday night (the night of the car wreck), it just stopped working, and I couldn’t connect to it. I called the facility, and they rebooted the machine for me, but even that did not fix it. It was now 11:00 at night, and I had to drive to work, pick up the keycard needed to access the building, then drive downtown. At that hour, it’s a little spooky, but I didn’t have any trouble — I was able to fix the problem and be back in my car about 10 minutes later. It could have been worse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3. <\/span>The next day, Karianne gave a wedding shower for her friend Michelle, and it went very well. I got to hang out with Michelle’s fiance (now husband) Cody, which was fun (for me, at least; we pretty much just ran errands that I needed to do). So Saturday was going well, but that evening I ran a quick errand, and when I was pulling up in the driveway, Karianne called my cell phone.<\/p>\n

“Water,” she said. “Water there’s water everywhere so much water.”<\/p>\n

I asked where, she said the upstairs bathroom, and I bolted up the stairs. I ran into the bathroom, which (naturally) was covered in an inch of water, so (naturally) I slipped and my foot went into the bathroom cabinet at full speed. That hurt bad<\/em>, but there was no time to think about it, so I clawed my crippled way over to the toilet and turned the water off.<\/p>\n

Except it wouldn’t turn all the way off. There was still a slow trickle, and I was worried that if I tried to force the knob it would break off, and water would once again spew all over the place. I rigged up a way to divert the water into the bathtub, then went downstairs and called a couple of plumbers.<\/p>\n

It was about 10 at night, so I got an answering service. While I was waiting for a call back, I took a measuring cup into the bathroom and timed the water coming out: 1 cup\/30 seconds. That’s 1 gallon every 8 minutes, which sounded like a lot to me, until I checked my water bill. I’m paying something like $4\/1000 gallons. So if the problem persisted for 48 hours at that rate, well, that’s an extra $1.44 on my water bill. Given that, it wasn’t worth calling out an after-hours plumber.<\/p>\n

All in all, the plumber’s bill was $131 and the carpet by that bathroom smells a little musty (still working on that). It could have been worse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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