Kyle M. Perkins

I said that I'd make tonight's posting! Now, on to the day's activities: Keat and I woke up around 12 (it felt nice to sleep in), because the maintenance people were supposed to come at 1 to fix a lot of things in the apartment. We didn't actually leave the apartment till about 1:15, because we had to "tidy up" for the maintenance guy(s) (for example: putting the cats and all of their necessary items in the bedroom, etc). However, before we left, I found out that the sink was backed up! I ran the dishwasher last night and I was expecting the dishes to be clean when I woke up. Instead, both sinks were 90% filled with water and dirty dishes. I checked under the sink and didn't see anything. I removed the dirty dishes, put them aside, and ran the disposal. However, instead of sucking down the water, it sucked it down from 1 sink and spewed it into the other sink! So much for that method. I then looked below the sink again and removed all of the items under the pipe itself, only to find out that the pipe was leaking! There was a divit in the floor of the cabinet since we moved in, and now I know what caused that. Keat and I made a sign for the maintenance guys before we left to let them know the sink was clogged.

We arrived at the office, and I expected to be there about an hour or so. After replying to emails, checking my reader, and other items, I had a few things on my to-do list for North State (adding text, updating photos, etc). We left around 5 and stopped by Wal-mart (for the 1st time this week! A new record!) and Keat got herself a new MP3 player. We then charged through the traffic on the way home, and realized that with: 1) Friday traffic, 2) 5:00 traffic, and 3) holiday rushes, all of these together created one stressful trip home.

We finally got home and I expected for the maintenance guys to have stopped by (is that grammatically correct? I don't know - it's 2AM!) We checked in and saw the workorder on the counter. The drip pans on the stove were replaced (good), the living room outlet was "working" (tested; not working as expected: bad), fixed the A/C unit to heat up (replaced our thermostat; not expected, but good), and unclogged the sink (good; whew!). The living room outlet seems to have a "maintenance curse" on it or something; it never works for us, but maintenance always says it works and assume we're stupid because it is connected to the light switch, and they think we don't know how to turn it on. After testing it myself and plugging various things into it, I found out that technically it works, but it's loose and that's why nothing will stay on when plugged into it. As for the sink: it turns out that the sink was clogged with a carrot top. What are the odds?

Keat and I also found out a good name for the new service (can't say much) and I bought the domain for it. I had some credit on my VPS refund, and a portion of that paid for the domain. I'm also working on the display point-of-concept for the service, and if things go well, I should have that done after I'm done with this posting. I also created a temp logo for it, which looks really good.

We don't have anything really important planned for the weekend, except for relaxing.