An Expensive Morning . . .

Yesterday was a ridiculous day.  I've been working in my home office to get it back in some sort of shape.  I started this project three days ago.  It was a big job to sort/file/toss all the paper, and it was really dusty in here, and, and, and . . . So I started.  And I made substantial headway that first day.  Probably close to 2/3rds of what I initially wanted to accomplish was done.  The second day was taken up with other miscellaneous house things, but I worked in the office a bit, and then I grabbed all the thumb drives I had and pulled everything off them, filing/tossing as I went.  I got a few done.  

That brings us to yesterday.  I sat down again to work through more thumb drives and got another few done.  Then I had breakfast, and when I came back into the office, my computer monitor was flashing on and off and pixelating all over the place. 

It's lasted through two computers, so I really can't complain, but it threw a huge wrench in my plans.  I figured I could use the old telly in the guest room as a monitor, but it's so old that I needed a converter box to go from RCA to HDMI.  In the midst of searching through the myriad cables I have for assorted electronics in case there was something I could use, I realized that I needed to check one more place - the basement, where another "cable box" lives.  And, to my horror, the basement was full of water.

Not all 50 gallons came out - but it took me quite a while to use a broom to move it to the new floor drain - because OF COURSE, it headed for the OLD floor drain because the basement is still pitched that way.  I called my cousin who gave me the name of a plumber - who initially said he could come today, which would have left me with no hot water yesterday.  But he found someone to do him a favor, and another plumber was finally at my house around 4:15 yesterday.  It was a two and a half-hour job, but it was done.  

The old heater was 16 years old.  I had it installed before my late mom and I moved into this house.  So, it had a good long life.  Interestingly, it had split.

And it also pitted at the top from the inside out - which isn't usual.  

It took a really long time to completely drain.  

It was really full of sediment . . . 

While I was waiting to hear about the plumber, I decided I'd just order a new computer monitor, which I arrived this morning.  

 And then I opened my car insurance bill.

 It was an expensive morning . . .