Water in the basement

Friday: Woke feeling pretty good. EMail, Gus, Shower. Downstairs. Decided some coffee would be worth waiting for water to boil. Breakfast (last two eggs in the dozen). Down basement, and stepping off the last stair, into about two inches of water. Surveying, there was water covering almost the entire floor. Pulled up rugs and such. Meditation cushion got a little wet. The bottom of my Parker guitar case got damp, but the guitar was fine. No great losses. Back upstairs and sitting in the dance room. Headed out, it still raining. Deposited my pay at the bank, with a real live teller. Filled the gas tank, my "Distance To Empty" reading at 8 miles. To Home Depot. There was a run on wet-vacs and sump pumps, so, they were easy to find. The woman at the cash register said that days like these she was glad that she rented. Back home, and the water had already receded considerably. What flows in also flows out. Did some wet-vacuuming. Headed off to work.

Worked on my vari-speed stuff, writing a new debugging system that allowed two quite distant portions of the code-base to send messages through a single gate-keeper. With the help of this, I eventually found my bug. The fix was to move a "fBoolVar = true;" statement from one place to another. More mystery on the encrypted add-on front. Went out, MB gave me a call on her way to Lowell, eventually decided to get a burrito. Stayed until around 11.

Back home, down basement and more drying/cleaning. Took a shower. Practices in the basement, sitting on the futon.