Absolute shit day

This evening was supposed to cap off at dinner celebrating my brother’s birthday. Events transpired to shut down that possibility.

It started to unravel during a shower attempt between Zoom meetings.

There was no hot water.

Thus began frantic explorations of faucets up and down the house, leading to the discovery that there was a leak coming at the hot water heater and a meter was spinning wildly in the utility closet. What kind of meter? I don’t know. It was measuring things in feet.

Just trying to figure out what was happening involved cursing the state of web searches riddled with AI, promoted posts and vertical short form video content.

Long story short, we have a burst pipe. Plumbers were able to isolate the problem, but not access the offending pipe. We’re only out of a few hot water faucets but can limp along fine in the meantime. The water heater needs replaced. We will survive and deal with the rest when the weather gets warmer as it will involve deconstruction.

And this wasn’t the worst part of the day, but that’s not for now.

For now I am grateful this particular situation was temporarily remedied.