Okay, not really. But I did have a relatively major plumbing disaster at my house last weekend. On Sunday, I was trying to shut off the water supply to an upstairs toilet, but the knob wouldn't turn. So, genius that I am, I decided to take a nice big pair of pliers to it and force the damn thing. Of course, the knob came right off, and water sprayed into my face at a full 80 psi. Thankfully, it was clean water, but pretty soon the entire bathroom was flooded. My housemates weren't home, so I had to rush down to the basement and shut off the main water supply to the entire house. In the meantime, enough water had sprayed out to flood the bathroom with about a half inch of water, which was slowly but surely draining through a seam in the floor and through the ceiling of the hallway downstairs. I had to run around finding all the buckets, tubs and pots I could to catch water, then go back upstairs and bail/ladle/mop up the standing water. Throughout this whole ordeal, I was thinking to myself how cartoonish and slapstick this would look to an outside observer. It's one of those things that's funny as long as it isn't happening to you. Strangely, thinking about this just made me laugh. Luckily, no one else was around to hear me and stare at me like I was crazy.

Two days later, things have settled down somewhat. We borrowed an industrial-grade fan from a friend and got the bathroom dried up pretty quickly, and the damage to the hallway ceiling seems to be minor and easily fixed with a little patching. Whew, I'm feeling a little exhausted just writing about the whole ordeal. But I did manage to still finish and turn in my answers for Insane Office Trivia before the deadline that same day, so (in the words of Kevin), yeah, I'm pretty good .

On a completely different note, I find myself strangely affected by Heath Ledger's death. For some reason I'm genuinely saddened by it, even though he wasn't a favorite actor of mine and I don't usually give a hoot when famous people die. I guess it's because he was so young, and didn't have a reputation for abusing drugs a la River Phoenix. But yeah, I was as surprised by my own reaction to the news as I was by the story itself. Hmmm...

Two things:

1. Apparently I was last online in 1969, before Al Gore had even invented the internet.
2. Apparently I have read over 1.2 million posts. Granted, some of that is because I skipped to the very end of 5,000+ post threads, but still...