October 08, 2004
Time Well Spent
Some men are strange, but this takes the cake.
I know. I've been remiss in my blogging. I should have some really great reason, but I don't. I did go to Florida on Tuesday and Wednesday for a deposition, and I'm happy to report that Florida is still there. I stayed in Destin Tuesday night (hey, somebody's got to do it) and headed to Defuniak Springs for the deposition Wednesday morning. When I checked into my hotel Tuesday night my room wasn't ready. They only had smoking rooms left (not what I had reserved since I'm allergic to cigarette smoke), but they assured me they could put an ionizer in the room and it would eliminate the smoke. However, it takes one hour for an ionizer to work. So, kicked out of my hotel, I went to the outlet mall to spend Archi-Sapper's money. I got a cute pair of shoes and two Christmas gifts before the hotel called me on my cell phone to tell me my room was ready.
The only other excitement of the week was our fun with plumbing. I had our gas oven/range installed on Tuesday. The pipe leading from the wall to the oven was too long, so the oven was sticking out into the kitchen. I hired a plumber who came over and cut the pipe to size and installed the oven. That was Tuesday morning before I left for Florida. Archi didn't use the oven while I was gone, so it's inaugural cook was Thursday night. When we used it, I smelled gas. This concerned me, and my concern only increased Friday morning when we woke up and I still smelled gas. Archi didn't smell it, but he smelled it when he stepped outside. Between the two of us, we realized it was time to call Entergy.
I had a hearing Friday morning so Archi called Entergy after I left and they came out to the house. They used their high tech gas gizmo and determined that we had a gas leak in the pipe that leads from the hot water heater in our shed to the house. Archi came inside to call our plumbing company and see if they could come over and fix it. After he hung up, the Entergy guy asked him who we were going to use to fix the line. Archi said we would use the people who installed the oven. The Entergy guy said, "I don't think I'd use them." While Archi had been on the phone, Entergy guy had been checking out the oven, and found a gas leak there where the plumbers hadn't tightened the connection with the wall. We were batting a thousand. Fortunately, the very nice Entergy guy tightened the oven connection (which he absolutely didn't have to do since they're not responsible for anything inside your house) and headed out on his way.
A couple of hours and ten million dollars later and we are no longer leaking natural gas either into or outside of our home. Ah, the joys of home ownership.
I'm now headed out to work to go make some money to pay for these fiascos.
Posted by Kitty at October 8, 2004 05:21 PM
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