Not My Favorite Week

I started the week by watching my computer fall off my desk. The good news is I had Apple Care, the bad news is my hard drive had to be replaced. When I picked it up today the guy told me I could look online about trying to recover all “my stuff.” I need my IT specialist for that.
At the same time my computer was going so was our sewer line. So at the start of the week our driveway and whole back walk we were torn up so we could get a new sewer line. This job is for shit, literally. Besides the normal pain in the ass things like not being able to drive in our driveway, or use our back door, or wash clothes or dishes we have had some extra pains. Like today while I was out walking Shay and happened to see the guy with the backhoe puncture the irrigation feed line and have thousands of gallons of water shoot out before we could find the main water cutoff in the ground. That little mistake meant that I also had no water in my house for the day.

The only good news is the old pipe runs right u dear my garden and I convinced the guys to run the new one down the driveway and not spdestroy my garden.  They might have done a little ruining of the garden anyway.  Not to mention the trees,shrubs and other plants that had to get trashed to get to the pipe.  It looks like a bomb went off in my yard.

As of right now the easy half of the aging cast iron sewer line is replaced with PVC, but tomorrow the difficult end that connects to the house is going to be done. Let’s add that it is Good Friday and it is doubtful an inspector is working tomorrow which means we are going to have this giant open trench in our driveway until at least Monday. Lord know how long it will take to fix the brick walkway with four inch cement slab beneath it. Along with all the other lines that have been cut, irrigation water supply, irrigation power supply, five down spout run off lines, another electrical line which I have no idea what it supplies. This is a once a lifetime replacement. If I had to do this again it would kill me.

For tonight I am hoping the no animals fall in the four foot trench and spend the night crying for help. I really need a good night sleep before the plumbers come back early in the morning with the jack hammer. So much for Good Friday.