This has been an odd week.  Actually a displaced week. 

It all started a few months ago when we had the cable guy come out and install a new line for us.  We have a crawl space under the house so he went down to feed the line and made the not-so-thrilling comment of "You have a bit of a sewage leak under your house."  A few weeks later we started getting some estimates and all that and here we are finally getting around to fixing the problem.  Turns out it’s been going on for a while so the ground under the house is completely saturated with "black water" – not to be confused with raw sewage – which we have to treat first.  Once the standing black water is gone the plumber can do his thing.

We started with an insane week last week of getting estimates from numerous folks which is never fun.  Now we’re just in the moment of getting everything fixed.  Brooke and the girls have been at my folk’s house in LA since Wednesday, I’ve been staying with the Barrys and after a few delays I think we’re finally going to have everything locked up and fixed today!  I’m going to take the train up to LA to join the fam and we’ll come back either later Sunday or first thing Monday.  The ground is still being dried out.  Insane.

Please flush your toilets with gratitude.