We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies

[rolanni]

So, today!  The electrician, who discovered the reason that plugging in the air conditioner on one side of the bedroom turned off the light and alarm clock plugged into a Completely Nother socket.  Turned out there was an arc being created in the receptacle itself.

We are very lucky people.

While he was here, the electrician also replaced a not-to-code wire to a circuit breaker.  The rest were OK, but this one particular wire was of a sort that would have failed before the circuit snapped over.  The words of the electrician were, "Well, there's a fire waitin' to happen."

We are very lucky people.

The reason we had called the electrician was to move a plug in the bathroom, since the new vanity, once installed, will cover the existing plug.  This was done with a minimum of fuss, but not exactly in the optimum-for-us manner. We'll need to punt.

There's a change.

I believe that, with the departure of the electrician, we are now bereft of craftspeople until Monday-next at oh-ghod-early, when the plumbers will arrive, rip out the existing vanity, and the toilet, move the washer and dryer to the kitchen and fly away.

Coming close on the heels of the plumbers will be the flooring crew, who will do their thing.  After we have a floor, the plumbers will swoop on by to install the toilet and go away until Tuesday morning, when they will pick up the vanity from Waterville Custom Kitchen before landing again at our house to continue with their piece of the adventure.

The really sticky part about that is that it's bound to be noisy, and I have a phone interview with the fourth narrator of the Audible editions at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.  *cough* I hope Neil can filter out the racket.

Speaking of insurance companies, the mail brought packets from same regarding the flood.  It may be that we will simply lose the books that we have lost, since there seems to be no insurance-company-comprehensible explanation for them available to me.  I will need to call the Claims Supervisor tomorrow to verify that.

*sigh*

Lest I forget, today's adventures also included the arrival of Girl Genius, Volume Eleven, which provided a welcome respite.

*sigh*

By the middle of next week, this will all be over.

Comments

[the wol (from livejournal.com)]

Hang in there!

[the wol (from livejournal.com)]

BTW, I'm surprised one of yours didn't alert to the faulty outlet, which creates ozone when it arcs. One of my kittehs (alas, she is now a kitteh angel) kept going up to smell this one particular plug. Finally, I leaned down to smell it myself, smelled ozone, and called the electrician. I got the same verdict you did: A fire waiting to happen. That was the plug I had my computer's battery backup thing plugged into.

[patknuth.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad that you are very lucky. Wishing you strength and sending good thoughts as you get through the rest of this.

[saruby.livejournal.com]

The value of the books should be the price stated on the cover, unless you can demonstrate that the value was greater (Ebay sales for example). This assumes that they were in mint condition prior to the flood. Your intended use (gifts, donations, whatever) is unimportant with respect to the value. Since these figures are easily determined, the insurance company should be able to reimburse you accordingly.