I just spent like twenty minutes looking for a Klingon verb

[kiya]

Because the one meaning roughly "to persist in existence" that was used to translate Hamlet (there is no 'to be' in Okrand Klingon) is the one I want to use for my current sentiment that it hurts/is exhausting to verb. (Not particularly physically; pain level is at the usual threeish.)

The drive on 93 was less of a disaster than it was yesterday? The giant block northbound was mysteriously not there which is alarmingly efficient for road construction in a way that makes me suspect that the other shoe is a hobnailed boot; the southbound horrible slalom through cones and barrels remains.

I do not think the basement will flood again today so that is a way in which today cannot help but be better than yesterday. (Caused by construction affecting water flow, because why not make sure Dependency Hell is even more of a stress point? That would be fun!)

Yesterday was basically a slow motion meltdown/panic attack for about ten hours of it and then I had a hit off the bottle of cope and some rum and slowly tried to recover. This has not succeeded.

My blaseball team is making me nervous which I suppose is traditional. But the commissioner is doing a great job.

Comments

[graydon]

Your surprise flood has been putting my surprise pressure drop into perspective.

(Not catastrophic, but noticeable and definitely a surprise.)

Hope things become progressively more orderly henceforward.

[kiya]

It was, at least, only a small flood, and in a part of the basement that is bare concrete? But when the ground is dug away from the side of the building, the gutters are loose, and it is solid downpour, Things Happen.

[graydon]

"For it is wisely said that the Gods of Civil Engineering are Drainage, Drainage, and Drainage", yup.

I do hope the downpours manage to schedule themselves around any further extension of the period of the ground being dug away!

[kiya]

We need insulation guy to do his thing! and then I think we can make some progress on fixing the drainage. Or maybe we need the mason first, not sure whether the dirt would go over the bottom of the facing bits.

[graydon]

As I am given to understand it, the usual propitiatory ritual for the drainage involves gravel.

(One wants flashing, so the water has a component of motion away from the house. Really old stuff you'll find the ground course of stone blocks, or the ground two courses, are wider than the rest of the wall and have a smooth slant out, or the whole wall -- in castles and fortresses -- is built with a little bit of back rake on the outside. But I would not doubt the mason will manage this appropriately.)

[kiya]

Yes, there was proper sacrificial gravel which we had to remove for the purposes of the chaos, in a nice channel and bounded by granite cobblestones. We will put it back when such is possible.

(artan is a quarter mason by geneaology and Does Things.)

[graydon]

Oh, well, fancy, then!

I shall stop fuss-budgeting, or at least fuss-budgeting in this direction.