So this has been a bad, bad week. Boss has been a complete cow, the 2IC is leaving (she sticks up for me), mum told me my grandparents are being put into a home, found out I'm gonna owe a fuckload of tax.. They say shit goes in three (and with me it usually does) so I'm pretty much just hanging out for number three to happen... Sorry, no 'long story short' here, hehe.
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So I got a new fish tank a few weeks ago, and spent quite a few $$$ buying it and setting it up, and putting fish in it... I woke up on Monday morning and the power was out. Strange, I thought, I have never has a power outage in the entire time Ive lived here. So I go to the fuse box, and see the safety switch has tripped. Naturally, I pull the switch up, and naturally it just flicks back down again. So I turn on all the fuses, one by one until I find out which circuit is tripping the safety. Anyhoo I'm wandering around the house for a while puzzled as to what it could be. Until I see an empty fish tank.. and water all over the floor, and the power points... The tank has developed a massive crack in the bottom and my poor fishies are stuck in what little puddles were left... So anyway I clean it all up (and still manage to get to work on time) and gathered it would be dry by the time I got home, in which case the circuit would work once more. Of course not... something in the power point must be fucked. The circuit, I might add is pretty much half my house.. my room, the lounge room, Necrosis's room.
So I spend most of Tuesday morning on the phone, trying to track down an electrician. Noone wants small jobs.. everyone has a minimum fee plus an hourly rate but they are not available til next week as they are all booked out with larger jobs, but all quote me less than $100 for something that will only take 15 mins. So after almost 30 phone calls I find a dude who is willing to do it on his lunch break today for a flat fee of $100, which considering he bases himself just around the corner, I considered a bit steep but asked him to book me in as I wasn't keen on waiting until next week. Anyhoo... a few hours later, after I'm complaining about how expensive electricians are, a guy at work tell me his best mate is a sparky. After a few phone calls he tells me that if I can arrange to pick this mate up from his house, drive him to mine and drive him home, he will do the job for free (tonight), all I have to pay for is the cost of the parts he uses and a six pack. So sweet, I think, and I ring and cancel the other guy I've booked.
Anyhoo I decide to ring workmate at lunchtime and just check everything was still good to go for tonight. Of course it's not. State of Origin party as his place he forgot he had on and didn't plan on missing out. Fair enough, I thought, he's doing me a favour so I just have to wait till his/his friend good time.. which won't be until Friday, so I tell him not to worry, I'll organise someone else somehow. He rings back a few minutes later saying his mate will be free after 2.30, and workmate will leave work for a few minutes, pick his mate up then bring him here. I say cool, sounds good, just let me know when. So I rush home to meet these guys... who never showed up. Then at 4pm I get a text from workmate saying 'Sorry too busy at work won't be able to make it today, we can do it tomorrow lunchtime if you can get a few minutes off work my mate will meet at yours'... by this time I'm getting a tad pissed, just because in between all this fucking around time I could have had another electrician organised and it could have been fixed by now.... Grrr so I am still without power to most of my house...
When I got home last night I had a letter in the mail from the real estate "Notice to remedy breach". I've never had one of these before.. "Cat on premises. Lease states no animals allowed". God dammit. So kitty has had a trip to mum's today and will having a little holiday there until I move out after I get back from Africa in a few months. I'm so pissed off. I swear, if I find out who dobbed me in, I'll.. do something bad, lol. Fuck them, the only little piece of sanity I have left right now (apart from Leo, who is lucky he doesn't have to live with me
) has been banished.. 
Sad panda...
So I got a new fish tank a few weeks ago, and spent quite a few $$$ buying it and setting it up, and putting fish in it... I woke up on Monday morning and the power was out. Strange, I thought, I have never has a power outage in the entire time Ive lived here. So I go to the fuse box, and see the safety switch has tripped. Naturally, I pull the switch up, and naturally it just flicks back down again. So I turn on all the fuses, one by one until I find out which circuit is tripping the safety. Anyhoo I'm wandering around the house for a while puzzled as to what it could be. Until I see an empty fish tank.. and water all over the floor, and the power points... The tank has developed a massive crack in the bottom and my poor fishies are stuck in what little puddles were left... So anyway I clean it all up (and still manage to get to work on time) and gathered it would be dry by the time I got home, in which case the circuit would work once more. Of course not... something in the power point must be fucked. The circuit, I might add is pretty much half my house.. my room, the lounge room, Necrosis's room.
So I spend most of Tuesday morning on the phone, trying to track down an electrician. Noone wants small jobs.. everyone has a minimum fee plus an hourly rate but they are not available til next week as they are all booked out with larger jobs, but all quote me less than $100 for something that will only take 15 mins. So after almost 30 phone calls I find a dude who is willing to do it on his lunch break today for a flat fee of $100, which considering he bases himself just around the corner, I considered a bit steep but asked him to book me in as I wasn't keen on waiting until next week. Anyhoo... a few hours later, after I'm complaining about how expensive electricians are, a guy at work tell me his best mate is a sparky. After a few phone calls he tells me that if I can arrange to pick this mate up from his house, drive him to mine and drive him home, he will do the job for free (tonight), all I have to pay for is the cost of the parts he uses and a six pack. So sweet, I think, and I ring and cancel the other guy I've booked.
Anyhoo I decide to ring workmate at lunchtime and just check everything was still good to go for tonight. Of course it's not. State of Origin party as his place he forgot he had on and didn't plan on missing out. Fair enough, I thought, he's doing me a favour so I just have to wait till his/his friend good time.. which won't be until Friday, so I tell him not to worry, I'll organise someone else somehow. He rings back a few minutes later saying his mate will be free after 2.30, and workmate will leave work for a few minutes, pick his mate up then bring him here. I say cool, sounds good, just let me know when. So I rush home to meet these guys... who never showed up. Then at 4pm I get a text from workmate saying 'Sorry too busy at work won't be able to make it today, we can do it tomorrow lunchtime if you can get a few minutes off work my mate will meet at yours'... by this time I'm getting a tad pissed, just because in between all this fucking around time I could have had another electrician organised and it could have been fixed by now.... Grrr so I am still without power to most of my house...
When I got home last night I had a letter in the mail from the real estate "Notice to remedy breach". I've never had one of these before.. "Cat on premises. Lease states no animals allowed". God dammit. So kitty has had a trip to mum's today and will having a little holiday there until I move out after I get back from Africa in a few months. I'm so pissed off. I swear, if I find out who dobbed me in, I'll.. do something bad, lol. Fuck them, the only little piece of sanity I have left right now (apart from Leo, who is lucky he doesn't have to live with me
) has been banished.. Sad panda...VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
I saw those tanks a few years ago on a visit up here, I swear I could sit there all day and stare
I can't believe kitty has to go