DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Posting from school on a Sunday night... in the middle of doing my grad work (2 courses done, 2 to go.)
Update on housing situation:
We moved out of our house. Tenant has moved in, per lease agreement. Haven't closed on our new house yet, so all our stuff is in storage now, staying at in-laws house.
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Funny portion: (at least now that it's over, it's funny)
Moving out:
Did Murphy's law apply? Hell no. I imagine that if Murphy himself was standing next to me, he'd be saying "wtf? I didn't expect *that* to happen."
Example: removing washing machine. Turn off water.
Murphy's law: expect it to leak. Exactly, the water is leaking; valve doesn't shut off 100%
So, shut off water in the basement while I deal with the leaking valve. Trouble fixed, water is turned back on. All seems fine, or is it? Fast forward about 2 hours. Wife remarks, "I think I smell gas" followed by a large FOOOOOOOM! We rush to the basement to discover the source of the problem. Depressurizing the water system and repressurizing it has made a problem more noticeable. The valve on the hot water tank that leaked (1 drip every 20 or 30 seconds that I was content to live with) is now spraying water like a garden hose. I imagine that the ghost of Murphy is standing next to me, laughing and pointing his finger at the valve. But, I digress.
You're probably thinking "Fooom? A bursting valve doesn't make a loud Fooom sound.. and what about the smell of gas?" What I failed to mention, and what Murphy's law fails to predict is the direction the water was spraying. Of course, the doors on the furnace just happened to be off so I could clean it out and replace the filter. ALL of the water was spraying directly into the furnace, at the perfect angle such that it put out the fire the furnace was attempting to maintain in its effort to heat the house. Well, most of the fire. It narrowly missed the pilot light. As we stood there momentarily bewildered by the spectacle, enough gas finally built up to ignite on the pilot light again, producing another FOOOOOM with flames shooting out of the furnace, only to be quickly doused by a stream of hot water.
In the end, I made repairs to both which totaled about $7. I got lucky cost-wise. It also ate up 6 hours of my time, resulting in 6 fewer hours of sleep than the 5 I expected. (You just did the math, huh? Yup, that's right, I didn't get to sleep for a couple of days while we moved. I own far more stuff that I thought - 2 24-foot trailer loads, plus about 20 more grand caravan loads of stuff. Enough to completely fill two 10x20 and two 10x10 storage units to capacity. Plus, I still have to pick up my grill, picnic table, canoe, rabbit cage, and a whole garage full of stuff.
Oh well, back to the college work.
Update on housing situation:
We moved out of our house. Tenant has moved in, per lease agreement. Haven't closed on our new house yet, so all our stuff is in storage now, staying at in-laws house.
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Funny portion: (at least now that it's over, it's funny)
Moving out:
Did Murphy's law apply? Hell no. I imagine that if Murphy himself was standing next to me, he'd be saying "wtf? I didn't expect *that* to happen."
Example: removing washing machine. Turn off water.
Murphy's law: expect it to leak. Exactly, the water is leaking; valve doesn't shut off 100%
So, shut off water in the basement while I deal with the leaking valve. Trouble fixed, water is turned back on. All seems fine, or is it? Fast forward about 2 hours. Wife remarks, "I think I smell gas" followed by a large FOOOOOOOM! We rush to the basement to discover the source of the problem. Depressurizing the water system and repressurizing it has made a problem more noticeable. The valve on the hot water tank that leaked (1 drip every 20 or 30 seconds that I was content to live with) is now spraying water like a garden hose. I imagine that the ghost of Murphy is standing next to me, laughing and pointing his finger at the valve. But, I digress.
You're probably thinking "Fooom? A bursting valve doesn't make a loud Fooom sound.. and what about the smell of gas?" What I failed to mention, and what Murphy's law fails to predict is the direction the water was spraying. Of course, the doors on the furnace just happened to be off so I could clean it out and replace the filter. ALL of the water was spraying directly into the furnace, at the perfect angle such that it put out the fire the furnace was attempting to maintain in its effort to heat the house. Well, most of the fire. It narrowly missed the pilot light. As we stood there momentarily bewildered by the spectacle, enough gas finally built up to ignite on the pilot light again, producing another FOOOOOM with flames shooting out of the furnace, only to be quickly doused by a stream of hot water.
In the end, I made repairs to both which totaled about $7. I got lucky cost-wise. It also ate up 6 hours of my time, resulting in 6 fewer hours of sleep than the 5 I expected. (You just did the math, huh? Yup, that's right, I didn't get to sleep for a couple of days while we moved. I own far more stuff that I thought - 2 24-foot trailer loads, plus about 20 more grand caravan loads of stuff. Enough to completely fill two 10x20 and two 10x10 storage units to capacity. Plus, I still have to pick up my grill, picnic table, canoe, rabbit cage, and a whole garage full of stuff.
Oh well, back to the college work.
