shrift, get up there.

Fitness. Bah. t goes to change clothes

Kat, I'm dependent on shavasana to prevent bloodshed. But ot could be worse.

t follows shrift's good example

Bah. I spent over $3000 on my new MacBook. Guess what? The charge went through twice.

am on hold with bank....

Not cool, Apple!

Well, I tried to pay it as a debit to my bank card, but it was declined (dunno why). Then they told me to try it as a credit. That went through. Then a day later the debit went through.

Ack! Tino is running off with your cash!

Tino also, during this last spate of waterlessness, overreacted and refilled those cheapo commercial three gallon containers of water with the pull-out spigot. Which is usually okay, if Tino is careful. But he wasn't, and he didn't check, and he stuck three of them in the cabinet under the bathroom sink.

There's nothing else under there, so we never look there. Until I realized that the laundry tossed down there was unaccountably wet. Tino's container has been leaking slowly for the past, what, month? And it's soaked through the cabinetry until it totally damaged it and rotted out a hole.

In my beautiful new cabinets! Woe, Tino!

I feel just sick about it, but D. points out that a) the damage is inside the cabinetry and not visible, and b) it would have been much worse if it had turned out to be an actual leak in the wall, which is what I'd thought it was originally.

I always fear that when I have to rerun my card.

You guys, I am so wiped. I was supposed to go to Home Despot and I fell asleep scanning the home repair guide. Not happening now. The idea of dealing with people is too much.

Ack, Liese! Though D is right, and you can make it structurally sound pretty easily.

frets about upstairs plumbing some more

OK, my bank needs a bunch of info about the transaction faxed to them from the Apple store. So I'm currently waiting for a manager from the store to call me back.

Fortunately, there's not any true structural damage, I think. I mean, there is, but it's not holding anything up. There's just a big line of water damage along the edge of the cabinet, and then a hole in the corner. The neighboring cabinet is fine; I pulled the drawers out to check. So it's just the one under the sink.

I'll probably want to do something to stop bugs coming in from the crawlspace, but I need to do some work like that anyway, because when I pulled the other undersink panel off (no cabinet under that sink, it's supposed to be more accessible) there was a big hole around the pipes in the drywall. I assume the plumbers thought it would be blocked off by the cabinetry, but the panel doesn't close it off completely, so I want to seal it up somehow.