Tuesday – 04 December 2007
Oy. That’s really the best way to describe the day. It hasn’t been hellish, but it’s had an… unusual… start for a Tuesday:

  • I was in bed before 1:00 AM. Rare, but I was tired.
  • I don’t remember shutting off the alarm this morning. But, I apparently did; that led to some oversleeping. Two hours’ worth. But, I was okay with that, as I obviously needed the rest.
  • I got up and started to get ready for work… then realized that I wasn’t really ready to get ready for work, if that makes any sense. (Translation: “I was dragging ass.”)
  • About forty minutes later, I managed to muster the get-up-and-go to finish pre-work prep.
  • I stepped into the master bathroom to find water on the floor around the toilet. Ô.õ Um, okay..
    • No seepage showing on the walls or floor.
    • No apparent bad seals on the toilet.
    • No apparent cracks in the porcelain.

    So, I flushed the toilet. Water seeped out from under the lid. >.< I removed the lid to see if I could figure out where the water was coming from. Yep. Piece of cake. It was, literally, staring me in the face: The refill hose (coming out of the filler valve) had come out of the refill tube.


    (clicking will not flush, but will take you to the HowStuffWorks site)

  • I placed the hose back into the refill tube and flushed the toilet. Bad idea. Well, not really “bad” but I had neglected to secure the hose, so it flipped out of the tube and sprayed me and part of the wall behind me. *sigh* At least it was the “clean” water. I reseated – and secured – the hose and flushed the toilet again. Success.
  • I grabbed my trusty bottle of Pine-Sol, a bucket and a rag and proceeded to mop up the floor.
  • I got redressed and headed to work. I headed to – and decided to work in – the SLC office today. The workout will wait until tomorrow.

At least it’s not Thursday.