Flash Flood

I have abandoned my old rabbit hole and returned here to blogspot. Had moved to MSN Live Spaces when that whole stupid Danish cartoon controversy broke out and the PTA banned the blogspot domain. I finally got sick of the lousy interface on Spaces. This is way better. So I'm back.

Anyways! I was home alone and sitting in my usual spot at the PC this morning and heard my window being slid closed. So I took a peek and noticed that the jamaadar had taken it upon himself to wash the yard. I got back to my writing just as I heard water hitting the window panes. Taking no notice (apart from turning up the volume on winamp), I got back to my writing.

Half an hour later (with three new words having been added to the next great fantasy novel), the room began to feel strangely chilly for some odd reason. I figured hey.. it was winter.. and continued battling my writer's block. Then my foot hit the floor and I nearly jumped out of my chair. Water! Everywhere! As it turned out, the water had seeped through the gap in my sliding window, flooded the window frame, and made its way insidiously down to the floor. An entire third of my room was wet. Sadly this third included all manner of electrical wiring, and my precious PC's power socket. Damage control was the order of the day. First things first, I pulled the plug on my PC. Smooth shutdowns be damned. There was way too much water too simply use a mop. Managed to find some old bedsheets and used them to dam the water against the walls. Used a towel to drag water out from under the computer table. Then dammed that as well (all the while muttering some choice and rather uncharacteristic swear words). Then unhooked all the wiring and dried it all segment by segment with a towel. This also involved the careful drying of two different power strips (more muttering here). Finally, I hooked everything up again, sent up a prayer to the powers that be, and switched the PC on again. Nothing blew up thankfully. Then I went outside and explained to the jamaadar that you do not aim jets of water at sliding windows.

It then occurred to me that there were other rooms in the house as well. So I went all over the place checking to see if anything else was inundated. Turned out my room was the only ill-fated one in the house and so I got back to my PC and added another word to the next great fantasy novel