In Brief

I'm scheduled to close on a new loan Wednesday afternoon. That should be a good thing. I've not had a chance to look at the "final" paperwork, though, so I'm hazy on exact details and this will require some reading.

I pulled the bicycles out of the storage room Saturday morning. That was... perhaps a mixed blessing as I could the ceiling to be dripping (better than it getting worse, right?). These rooms are located under one of the condo buildings, so any water is coming from some piping. Previously, there was a small leak in an exposed pipe. That got patched up a few weeks back and seems fine. This time, there's something leaking above the sheetrock ceiling that soaked through and has been dripping for... some length of time. I don't get out there much. It happened to be dripping over a pile of my camping stuff. My air mattress (used all of a couple nights at last years Estrella War) was showing some sort of mold-like residue, and that got tossed. My sleeping bag seemed okay. The plastic bin I had stored basic feast gear in was literally full of water - the contents were tossed and the bin is remaining only long enough to catch water for now.

Ugh. There's not really anyone I can blame about it. The original designers? Myself for not noticing earlier? I'm frustrated at this second (if seemingly-unrelated) leak in there, but the damage to stuff was fairly minimal and there's not a great deal I can do about it directly. I have to wait 'til our repair person(s) has a look and gets to work on it. Probably at least a 4x4 square of ceiling will need to come out, and then who knows what's actually the problem beyond that?

So that pretty much fouled my mood. It hasn't gotten much better. I'm tired, and that state has very little to do with sleep.

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