Monday, April 27, 2015

Good morning crew,

Who'da thunk it? It turns out that mangy little mutt was right after all. I thought the dog was crazy when it was barking at the closet a couple weeks ago during a rain storm, but as I discovered conclusively this weekend she was onto something; my roof is definitely leaking.

It rained almost constantly Friday night through most of the day Saturday. By Saturday morning a distinct drumming was coming from behind the wall immediately above the furnace and the laundry room.

The last time our leak-sniffing dog alerted to this sound I searched the walls and the floors carefully in this area and found no evidence of a leak, but this time the floorboards right below this wall were definitely damp.

I watched and listened as the drumming coming from behind the wall slowly became steadier and faster. Within an hour I had a tiny trickle coming down the wall in the laundry room. Standing there in my bathrobe, holding a bucket and feeling despair settling down on my shoulders, all I could see were dollar bills trickling down the wall.

The whole scenario was eerily similar to what happened to me in the condo about 10 years ago. What kind of luck am I cursed with that I should buy a house and have to go through the exact same problems all over again?

I can only hope and pray that trend doesn't continue, because after I had the leak repaired in the condo the furnace was the next thing to go.

So I'm meeting a roofing guy at the house this afternoon. If I'm lucky all that's wrong is some loose flashing or something. Which means I'm probably going to end up replacing the entire roof.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"Today is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, also known as No Work Gets Done Day. I wonder if anyone has ever been fired on 'take your kid to work day.' Just imagine, 'Ron, will you and your daughter step into my office please?' That would be a lesson about what it is like to work." -Jimmy Kimmel

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"Anybody go to the Olive Garden? Every table at the Olive Garden now has a computer. It's the perfect way for a family of four to ignore one another. And while you're there on the Olive Garden computer, you can get on the Internet and look up a better restaurant." Dave Letterman

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"A company has come out with a line of medical marijuana dog treats. Finally a medicine that will help my dog lie on the couch all day." -Seth Meyers

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On a visit to my wife's native England for our honeymoon, we arrived at London's Gatwick Airport. Tania headed for the British passport control line while I, an American, waited in the foreigners' line. When my turn came, the customs officer asked me the purpose of my visit.

"Pleasure," I replied. "I'm on my honeymoon."

The officer looked first to one side of me, then the other. "That's very interesting, sir," he said as he stamped my passport. "Most men bring their wives with them."


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In my sociology class, we were instructed to write down answers to some questions the teacher was asking.

"Next question," announced the instructor. "How would you like to be seen by the opposite sex?"

I was thinking about my answer when the young woman next to me turned and asked, "How do you spell 'intellectual?'"