So, needless to say, when my honey announced that he'd be gone on his business trip for damn near a month, I was miles away from thrilled. Since we got together, I think we've spent maybe two weekends apart. We're no good at it, as he would say. So a MONTH??? I had visions of long, lonely nights...just me and the Molly watching TV and sulking. Well I got that part right, but I forgot to envision the everything going to shit as soon as he got out of town part. He flew out Wednesday. He's been gone less than 24 hours, when the friggin' roof starts cavin' in. Well maybe I exaggerate a little. But let's just say there was a monsoon in full swing, and I awaken to discover a big crack in the ceiling over the computer desk, and water dripping rapidly through it. WTF? This had been going on a while, judging from the puddle that had accumulated 3 inches from the CPU. Is the ceiling gonna cave in? How many days will I remain trapped in the rubble before the Molly eats me alive? So I make some calls. Then I realize that it's about a million degrees. Check the thermostat, and the A/C is fuxt. This is unbearable. Inhumane. If I know nothing about drywall, I know less than nothing about fixing A/C. I'm considering packing it in and heading to a shelter, when the Spankster calls and walks me through it. Then the brother came by after work to look at the roof and ceiling, and so far it seems I'm safe. Now I get to wait for the landlord.
In other news, holy shit about this bridge situation in Minneapolis. The whole thing is just awful, first few hours were a little intense because we have family that live there, but they are safe and sound. I have always been afraid of bridges. I don't like driving on them and I pretty much come unglued when I'm in traffic that stops on one. But now? It used to be an irrational fear. And some would say that it still is. But in reading the statistics about how many bridges in America are rated as poorly or even WORSE than the one that fell, it's a little scary. Close to 5,000 high traffic bridges rated even lower than this one on inspections. WHICH ONES? is what I want to know. That's a lot of fucking bridges that I don't wanna cross. I can't even fathom what the people involved in MN are going through right now. So sad.
