Liars and Cheats

Too many of them in this world. Let's just say that work has been interesting these past couple of days.

Bomb in Cairo

Dang. and WTF??

Three weeks after we were there, some idiots throw bombs into the Hussein square and kill a french woman and injure dozens more, including kids

idiots!

This sunday...sick

Flu-Like symptoms

Clark Street

Lots of work accomplished saturday in Laramie. KB did some major cleaning. I got the drywall fixed (for the most part, taped and mudded, so next time we can sand and prime)

Painted second coat of red in kitchen (looks awesome)

cleaned out the spare room and organized what was left (finally)

and had a lot of good fun at Sweet Melissa's and Lovejoy's.

Didn't get my train fix, but saturday night in the winter storm a few short trains rolled through while we were at Lovejoy's; their headlights beaming in the snow. that was cool. only wished that I had brought the camera.

Babysitting

I'm going to enjoy babysitting.

Ham sandwich and other stuff.

Had a hankering for a nice fresh baguette with jambon and butter. I miss that about CAmeroon. Mine was pretty good though. I think it needs cold butter though.

Ben learned a new trick to get some ham. I've been working with him the past two days on coming back and stopping on command half way back. Took him 4 times and then he got it. Tonites ham got him down to 3.

Binyaman

And Geli? Before Bed, I wished her well and to come visit me.

And she did. early morning dreaming.

Thank you, baby stink!

Bathroom Bust

Since we were gone to Cairo, the weather turned bitter cold here and burst the pipes in the laramie bathroom. Wall filled up like a cup but most water drained into crawlspace. Must have been running for a week. KB found it tuesday when she arrived and lost 5 hours of her day getting a plumber over there to fix.

I went up after work last night with cleanup in mind and I bought two portable heaters...a baseboard type with timer and digital thermostat and an oil filled radiant heater.

Put baseboard type in bedroom along wall near outlet. Was nice sleeping there with heat in that room. Ben loved it too as he didn't try to come up on bed (when it's cold, he insists!!)

The oil filled one I put in bathroom to prevent another freeze. Tried using the little space heater along with it to dry out the framing but both running kept blowing breaker; too much wattage. Left it on all night and already framing showed signs of drying out. Told KB to leave it on through weekend and into next week when we can go back up there.

we dug out all of the wet insulation-was like a sponge, removed the damaged drywall and hoping everything will dry out in a few days. Don't want a mold problem in the wall after I fix. What a mess, but fortunately most of the water drained down into crawl space instead of coming into bathroom.

Plumber did a good job of putting in new valve and aligning pipes with drainage away from valve so if it does freeze again, won't burst valve. He suggested we leave a good opening to access valve too so room heat goes into wall to protect the pipes. Considering putting in wall vents (like return air vents) so the pipes have access to the warmer air from the room.

Another weekend's worth of work to get us back where we were before.

Dang.