Last Friday night, this was part of my basement. Our cleaning company (who will go unnamed for now, but will likely be named loudly later) left the house on Friday with an overflowing toilet bowl and a stuck flapper. Also, for extra bonus points, they left a gas burner on the stove open, with no flame. This was shortly after 9AM.
Throughout the day, my house slowly filled up with water and gas. My neighbor noticed the smoke alarms going off (from the gas, no doubt) almost immediately after the cleaning crew left. He called the police, but they couldn't do anything and didn't know how to reach me.
When Tisha got home just after 7, she was faced with this. A house full of gas, four yelling and frightened cats (who were otherwise unharmed, thankfully), a fine coating of water on every floor upstairs, and a torrential downpour in the rec room downstairs.
The ceiling caved in just before 8. You can see part of it hanging from my treadmill. All of this got rained on.
Now my house is pretty much gutted. Upstairs all the floors are pulled, as it all needed replacing. Downstairs has all the drywall pulled. The furniture's moved out, and we're living in an apartment for two moths while this gets fixed.
The cleaning company denies any responsibility.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Craig's Destruction
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Ryan's "Destruction"
Maddy was playing with Jenga blocks and getting likkered up . This eventually led to all manner of destruction:

/rl
/rl
Cory's Destruction
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Cory's Parties
Here's the full circle:
Lis - Ryan - Kelcey - Jenny - Cory
Mike's "Parties"
As I might have mentioned, my workplace, Senior Market Sales celebrates St. Patrick's Day Week. They have contest for best dressed, best cubical decorations, best score in Wii Rock band. Its a bit nuts, but I took my camera a few days.
This is Bob. I'm not certain he knew what the Pope was going to say about Irish priests this week or not.
This construction started on Friday the 12th and then because Allmakes was coming in on the 18th, the whole set of 60 work spaces was struck on the afternoon of the 17th. Amazingly, some work still got done!
This is Bob. I'm not certain he knew what the Pope was going to say about Irish priests this week or not.
This construction started on Friday the 12th and then because Allmakes was coming in on the 18th, the whole set of 60 work spaces was struck on the afternoon of the 17th. Amazingly, some work still got done!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Ryan's "Parties"
Craig's Parties
I'm cheating this week. This picture is from a Christmas party.
I was going to take pictures of a party at my house on Friday night, but instead we got home to find our house essentially destroyed.
I hope next week's topic is something destructive, because I've got that sewn up.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Ryan's "Parts"
Mike's "Parts"
North of Fremont on Highway 75 is this old barn that looks like a junk yard except it has house parts instead of car parts. It has been there since I was a little kid.
I remember seeing it when ever we would go the "The Farm" via Fremont. I think we even stopped there once to try and fix the car or something.
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Cory's Parts
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Craig's Parts
We celebrated a belated Christmas with my in-laws this weekend. My nephew got the most awesome chess set ever.
He doesn't know how to play chess -- he's only four. He loves it for its parts.
Next week (by special request) - "Parties"
The mother of 3/5 of this blog says that the logical progression from "art" to "parts" must end in "parties."
"Parts" due tomorrow!
/rl
"Parts" due tomorrow!
/rl
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Last week was my last week of working at Argonne before moving across the country, so I finally took my gear in to take some pictures in the tunnels beneath our machine room. Our network guy is also a band leader and was happy to be my subject in exchange for promo material. When we were done, Loren said "Man, that's art!" So here it is: art.
Mike's "Art"
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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