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I had hoped to resume writing here more regularly by now, but “fate” intervened in the form of a sudden drop in the water pressure at my house. So instead of writing (and instead of keeping up with my classes), I’ve spent countless dusty hours exploring my crawlspace and learning more about pipes and plumbing than I ever wanted to know. After a few days of finding no geysers under the house, I called in the Professionals. As it turns out, an old pipe under my front yard — one that should have been bypassed years ago when the plumbing system was rebuilt — is leaking, each week leeching as much water into the ground as I typically use in a year.
Repairs are forthcoming in the form of a Big Dig in my front yard, and my bank account will shrink (or my debts will grow) by $5,700 in the process. Not exactly something I was expecting to be doing as summer moves in, but it is what it is and it has to be dealt with. I’ll just have to develop a fondness for my new copper pipes, or maybe think of them as a form of art — which, in a way, they are. I may chronicle the experience in photographs and post them here, so if you’re into things like that … stay tuned!
The title of this article describes how I feel, and you may find the article a lot more interesting than my plumbing problems:
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