Zot!

[qos]

Was it just yesterday I posted about my closure on Water and Housekeeping?

I hadn't been home thirty minutes this evening when one of the upstairs girls asked to use our bathroom. This is not an unusual occurrence when someone else is showering upstairs. No problem.

Except that five minutes later she was shouting, "The toilet is flooding!"

I shooed her and my daughter out of the way, determined that the flooding was not ongoing, and fetched Mr. Shop-Vac.

When had someone reversed the hose connection so it blew water instead of sucked it up?

Arggghhh!

I reversed the hose, and started sucking up the water.
And the circuit breaker tripped.
More shrieking from little girls.
I told them to turn off a bunch of lights, then I flipped the breaker and resumed vaccuuming.

I put the fuzzy bath mat in a hot wash, and _storyteller_ (bless his heart) plunged the toilet. Then I started mopping up with a bleach solution. While I was at it, I bleach mopped my entire entry way. When life hands you a flood, use it to clean up, right?

It was only later that I discovered that the electrical outlet that supports all my electronics in my living room: computer, printer, speakers, television, cable box -- and my desk light, was fried when the circuit tripped.

_storyteller_ and I went out and bought a new outlet box, hoping it was just a circuit in there that had burned, but the new one doesn't get juice either.

I can move my laptop, but there won't be any entertainment in the living room until I can get this fixed. And I have no idea how much it's going to take, in time or money.

Comments

[queenofhalves]

oof. :/

[qos.livejournal.com]

I didn't think I was being hubristic!

Maybe it came across otherwise to the gods?

[blessed-harlot.livejournal.com]

ARGH!

[qos.livejournal.com]

Argh! indeed!

Was I tempting fate to upload this new icon this morning??

[a-belletrist.livejournal.com]

Oh urgh argh. :(

It may be the breaker unit in the box that needs to be replaced, unless everything is on the same breaker.

If solutions don't present themselves to you, holler. Paul is pretty darn good at the electrical (he used to be a licensed contractor in a previous phase), and he's diagnosed and replaced more things in our place than I can even count now.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Half the house seems to be on that breaker.
*sigh Don't get me started (again) on the decisions made by previous owners of this place.

I have a friend who has done some electrical for me, but he's been scarce recently. If I can't get him in sometime in the next couple of days, I will definitely take you up on your offer. Thank you!!

[kateri-thinks.livejournal.com]

Fuck.

*sigh*


(Us and our gorram basements . . .)

[qos.livejournal.com]

I know. . . but the worst part was sticking my nose down there and seeing just how many things had been plugged into that outlet. You're really not supposed to have multiple extension cords in one place like that. It's my own damn fault.

I need to email you about having lunch together soon!
(Will do so after I get to work. . .)

[kateri-thinks.livejournal.com]

Very Awesome Icon!

[qos.livejournal.com]

Ironically, I found it the morning that everything went ZOT.

Check out the one on this comment, which I have not yet had the right post to use. . .

[kateri-thinks.livejournal.com]

OOOOOWEE! NICE! (I, on the other hand, have had plenty of chance over the last couple of days to use it...*sigh*)

[southernselkie.livejournal.com]

Yike! NOT COOL! Damn, I'm sorry to hear that.