It's Fridnesday!

The raise I was promised FOUR weeks ago... yep, STILL hasn't arrived. But... boss called today to let me know he will be putting a separate check with my paycheck to makeup for the difference and he's already talked to the accountant about changing the payroll so YAY ALL AROUND!

I meant to write about the find-the-leak scavenger hunt I had to partake in this weekend but it slipped my mind, so here are the deets:

It was Sunday morning and I was playing an internet game when the WiFi suddenly stopped working. I went to the closet where we keep the routers to find all the equipment was soaking wet. It was raining pretty hard so I figured it was an issue with the roof so I called my boss. Once he arrived, he asked me to help him find the source of the drippage before we called maintenance. He was in the crawlspace in the wall where the water pipes are, and I bounced around between rooms turning faucets on and off. We determined that the pipes connected to the sink in room 314 needed to be re-sealed, and I had to relocate the gentleman who was occupying the room at the time. I called the plumber who showed up within 10 minutes and had the problem fixed in less than 20.

The reason I bothered to mention this is because it was a grand lesson for me to have been a part of. It was a moment of terror seeing all our internet-related electrical equipment covered in splashes of water, and then subsequently finding third floor housekeeping closet under a puddle, and seeing all the water gush from the pipes from 314. It was all very horrifying, the worst-case-scenario part of my brain took over and I was dreading the damage, but my boss showed me that these are simple problems that can be handled quite easily as long as it's done soon enough.

I took some old rags to the router and modem and flipped them upside down to dry, then we mopped the floor upstairs and left Room 314 out of order for a day just to keep an eye on things. After everything was settled there was no permanent damage and only a small bill to the plumber for coming out on a Sunday, he later told me he was happy to have a reason to leave the house.

On a different note... since it's Fridnesday and all, I was thinking about the sad state of my work schedule. On Monday at around 3:30PM I realized how relieved I was to be done with the bulk of my work week and happy to have the next 48 hours to myself. Until I realized that Monday (as opposed to normal people's Friday) is now the best day of the week, which isn't so great since my school schedule still adheres to a M-F kind of schedule.

So here's a cheers to it being Fridnesday, to exactly SIX WEEKS left of classes (before finals), to having aced all my midterms, to learning how to handle a leaky pipe situation and not losing my cool, and of course to the 8% cash back I get on my VISA card on qualifying purchases. Happy Fridnesday to me, indeed.