Ted the Penguin

Lawnmowers, Water, and Pirates!

It’s been a week, long and interesting week.

• Two people were more or less out at work; one on vacation and one sick. This translates to a lot more work for yours truly. Not too bad, but it was chaotic to say the least.
• Tristan hit a rock with the lawnmower, bending one of the blades. Ordered a replacement, turns out to be the wrong one. My dad went out, found one that fits, I put it on today, works like a charm. Too bad the grass is to wet to mow.
• It’s been raining here like crazy the past few days. Torrential downpours et.al. Was all fine and dandy until I went into the basement to switch my laundry, slipped and almost killed myself in the very large puddles of water on the floor. Turns out that the window wells for the basement, the kind that sink halfway into the ground, filled up with water and were proceeding to drain into the basement. Luckly, the basement has a drain and there isn’t anything on the floor that will/could be damaged.
• On a related note, we’ve been trying to fix up the house a bit so it doesn’t appear so sketchy, strightened the mailbox, pulled weeds, planted new flowers, etc. Problems though: haven’t mowed for two weeks cause lawnmower broke-d, massive amounts of rain are probably going to kill many of the new plants.
• Landlord Mark is going to come tomorrow, meet us and get a list of stuff that needs to be fixed around the house. Note to self, bring up covers for the window wells when we talk to him.

I’ve been in a pirate mood lately, as a side note. Watched Pirates of the Carrabiean on Saturday night, twas fun, though there wasn’t enough rum. Went to a lecture today at the Calvert Marine Museum for a lecture on pirates in the chesepeake, was pretty good too.

Can’t seem to escape being a techie though, the presenter was having trouble with his laptop… and someone from the museum recongized me from when I used to volunteer there, so I was enlisted. Sigh. Will I ever be able to escape?