Monday, November 12, 2012

Things could be worse, this just bugs me



Damn.  I just found out that I lost four boxes of books to water damage.

Before I got sick I had boxed up some things to put in a storage unit to make room to clean up the house.  So I had four cardboard boxes filled and taped shut and ready to go but they never went anywhere.  They were in a dry spot, protected from damp but not protected from the more than foot of water that resulted from the sump pump burning out.

It’s not that serious a thing.  I mean it’s nothing life threatening – been there, done that.  It’s just very annoying because of the circumstances, since it was stuff I was trying to save and now it’s trash.  I just feel like complaining about it.

I lost 3 – 4 years’ worth of National Geographic magazines, some fiction, some reference and text books from college and some worthless – not priceless – first editions.

I had forgotten this stuff was there.  I only found it today because I had to make room to get to the gas shut off valve, which I need to get to for when we have our new range delivered/installed.  Yeah, that broke, too.  First the car with the rack and pinion and now the oven won’t light.  I give the dishwasher about 7 weeks.

The garbage disposal will last forever because I hate it.

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