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.

Kat, I haven't heard the breakdown yet, but it seemed to go well. Now I wait. And prep for tomorrow's in person interview. Luckily the suit about fits. Same one I bought on consignment with you guys. Never wore it. This will, in fact, be the first time I will wear a suit of mine.

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.

Ack! It's air leakage. Bad plumbers. Some kind of expandable foam like Great Stuff is usually the answer.

I know, right? I didn't love those plumbers anyway. And there's air coming in under the cabinetry in the kitchen, too, so I want to seal that off. And while I'm at it, I should probably pull off the undersink panel in the other bathroom and check it. I know the one in the kitchen is okay, because we had that one off to replace the drinking water filter.

Great Stuff is a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.

Tommy, we have a $1000 limit on debit card transactions per day. It's a safety thing, which I discovered when I tried to buy furniture. Sucks that Apple ran it through twice. I hope they resolve it quickly.

I made it about 25 minutes on the stationary bike before I called it quits, which is 15 minutes longer than I thought I'd last. (In my defense, I then went to the grocery store for healthy food and carried a heavy bag for half a mile.) And I now have a scale. Baby steps are better than no steps, right?

I'm scheduled to give blood tomorrow. I've never done it before because of Red Cross restrictions which they've since relaxed.