So much for updating the webpage. As soon as I finished writing that, I went upstairs, turned on the lights and discovered that the puddle of water that kept appearing in the hall was NOT due to repeated clumsiness on my part, but to a nice leak in the ceiling. Laura-kid looked at it from the stairs and whaddoyaknow, a whole square foot and a half of the ceiling is sagging in under the weight of water. (Its a running gag that whenever Dad Linehan goes on a business trip, something drastic always happens to the house. This may be the fastest it happened yet, only two days since he took off for Yuma!)
OK, don't panic. Bust a call to the Leydorfs so at least SOMEONE with a clue is on hand and get a bucket for the hall. Then Danny and I climbed around in the attic to take a look. Whee, have we got a nice little problem! The support beam is practically soaked at the joint and moldy, and there's a nice size puddle between the beams on the floor. So while I got educated about the dangers of free-floating fiberglass, Danny tried to mop up as much as he could with a towel. Unfortunately...even that slight pressure cause the ceiling to cave in quite a bit. Eek... So now we have a nice duck-tape pattern on the hall ceiling to hold it up while we wait to replace it.
Step 2 involved us climbing onto the roof in the dark and laying a tarp down to prevent any more water from seeping in. That's how I found out that Dad hasn't been able to clean the gutters in a while. So I think I'll be doing that sometime this weekend. You know, the whole thing is just rather comical!
On the plus side, Mom Linehan's new glasses are really working great and I've started the long project of backing up my music CDs. Oh, and Dark Cloud 2 is turning out to be an interesting game!
That's it from me! Later!
~A
PS thanks Brandikins!
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