Category: Personal

Personal entries and rants

The Seeping has Stopped

Good news. The leak that has been plaguing my home has been plugged. After the roofer performed his fix the water has stopped running down my walls as soon as it would rain.

The repair wasn’t too expensive either. For just under 100 euro things were patched up. Now to fill out the paperwork for the insurance and hope they reimburse me. After that, the only thing left to do is reapply the wallpaper. That won’t happen for a while though, since the walls need to dry first.

At least no more weeping walls.

Blue Monday? Take it Elsewhere!

Today is ‘blue Monday’, supposedly the most depressing Monday of the year. Everyone seems to be talking about it: on the radio, at work, on twitter.

To all you folks that are willing to talk yourself into a depression. Take it elsewhere! Depressions are as contagious as the flu and the common cold. I don’t need it, I don’t want it.

So feel free to talk yourself into a depression, go sulk in a corner, feel sorry for yourself, curl up in a ball and so on and so forth; just do it elsewhere. You won’t ruin my mood.

Hoping my Walls Will Stop Weeping…

Today a roof repair man showed up to check out our problem. He has found some small hole in the roof that might have caused the leakage. Hopefully this was the cause of all the misery we (Megan and me) had to endure the last week. I need to call the insurance company to what’s next but most important is that my walls will no longer be weeping.

Game Over

It’s gone, it’s done and over with. The LAN party that lasted almost an entire week has ended. Everyone is back home, the living room is back to normal and work starts tomorrow. Life can turn back to normal now.

I know it seems ridiculous to be having a computer party with friends for 6 days in a row but it’s good fun and for me personally a good relief for a lot of stress from all the hard work and problems I’ve encountered the last 2 months. I might not have slept a lot in this period, so I cannot say I am ‘rested’ but I am sure a lot more relaxed than before.

Starting tomorrow I can start planning ahead again, for the arrival of the kitchen, how to deal with the leakage and busted rain pipe (nice surprise I got today) and getting the computer room finished.