Floods, Trees, and Tires

[Moozik: Simple Minds - Big Sleep]

This weekend was awfully entertaining. Well, entertaining might not be the exact word I'm looking for but for now, it will do.

Flood #1, the kitchen. I got home after Calculus class on Saturday afternoon to a nice little mini-flood in the kitchen. Turns out there was a teeny tiny pin prick of a hole in the water line running into my fridge. Pulled the fridge out, replaced the water line, easy, no problem there. The bigger problem is that we have some wooden flooring in the kitchen and yes, the water got underneath that and now the wood paneling around the fridge is somewhat buckled. Suck.

Flood #2, the garage. Saturday afternoon a rather large storm hit Phoenix. The largest amount of rain I've seen here for quite some time in fact. It would appear the weatherstrip underneath my side garage door has seen better days. Queue the mini stream I found in the corner of my garage. Suck.

Flood #3, the gym room. During the same storm of the century on Saturday evening, I found water dripping from the piece of sheetrock just above the window. Dripping fast I might add. Cups and towels to the rescue. Going outside revealed no obvious entry for said rainwater. The sheetrock in the room is now dry but will need to be replaced before the mold of doom sets in. But more importantly, how the fu** did the water get in to begin with? Suck.

Tree #1, front garden. The storm of the century had its way with my tree. 3 major branches came crashing down. The tree looks rather silly now. I've been debating on whether to remove the tree for some time. Well, now seems as good a time as any. The tree removal guy is coming out to give me an estimate next week. Sure I could borrow my neighbors chainsaw but I don't have any way to get rid of the tree myself.

Tree #2, back garden. Two branches completely broken. Not a disaster though, just took my trusty saw and trimmed things up nicely.

Tires. On Sunday night, we had another rain storm. So I thought that would be a fine opportunity to go to the shops :-) On my way back home, I got a puncture in the front tire. Bollocks. Changing tires in the rain == no fun whatsoever. Suck. Took the tire to Sears yesterday afternoon on the offchance that the flat could be patched. No such luck because of where the hole was in the tire. So, new tire then? Actually new tires because it also turns out my wheels were not exactly aligned correctly and all tires had some considerable wear. $400 and 4 1/4 hours later (I shit you not, yes 4 1/4 hours) I had nice new tires on my car.