Liquidity update

[alexxkay]

The Bad News: More leaks in various parts of the house. The worst of which are positioned directly above my comfy computer-chair next to the library.

The Good News: No apparent book damage. siderea's idea for an engineering solution allowed me to move the bucket out of the middle of my bed, and thus get 11 hours of much-needed sleep. Mucho thanks, siderea!!! [Though I'm curious what you thought the tinfoil and broomhandle were for. I just used plastic sheeting and duct tape to build a mini-aqueduct...]

Mara has set steps into motion to get us a New Roof. Which, no doubt, will have its own traumas assoicated with it, but they should at least be more predictable ones.

These household disasters seem to come with remarkable regularity whenever Vis is off on wanderjahr. A side-effect of losing his Ducal weather control power from the vicinity? Or perhaps just a side-effect of removing his personal "good fortune" field?

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

New roofs (why not rooves?) have few traumas associated with them, unless it's your own wallet involved. Sometimes there are delays if you get a nonstandard material (like our steel roof) and sometimes the shrubbery takes hits when they rip the old shingles off. And sometimes the roofers don't manage to get all the Giant Nails Of Doom with their magic nail magnet.

The tinfoil: um, to keep the space rays out of your brain. Rain falls through the atmosphere, so it soaks up more alien space rays than you do (unprotected) on the ground. So it's important to wear the aluminum foil hat when there's rain in the house. The broomstick is for emphasis.

[siderea]

If your aquaduct terminates at approximately less than ceiling height, and the bucket is at approximately floor height, and there's about 6 feet of freefall for the water to get into the bucket:

1) The drops of water falling into the bucket will impact with sufficient force to splash out of the bucket, and make a mess, and

2) The water will say "DRIP... DRIP... DRIP..." very loudly.

To address this, one needs to conduct the water into the bucket not in free fall. There are two quick and easy means I recommend:

1) If you know you won't have a high volume of water, tape a string from the outlet of the aquaduct, and dangle it into the bucket. This must be a vertical drop; string must not lean against upper edge of bucket (or the water will go outside the bucket). The water will slide down the string (kept there by surface tension) and accumulate silently in bucket. This does not work if the volume of water per second is high enough to overcome surface tention.

2) Make a drainspout of tin foil. The way you make a tube from foil is you wrap it around a broomhandle, then remove the broomhandle. Instant pipe. This drainspout can be at any angle you like.


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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Good suggestions. But point 1 is less relevant here due to a) having a very big bucket and b) it still being *on* the bed, but now at the far edge, not the middle. So the splash doesn't make it back out of the bucket. As for point 2, My solution to this was (in this case) an old, too-squished-to-be-useful-for-sleeping-on pillow lining the bottom of the bucket.

Will keep these ideas in mind for potential future incidents.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Rain falls through the atmosphere, so it soaks up more alien space rays than you do (unprotected) on the ground.

<rolls eyes> Oh, come on. Everybody knows water blocks rays. That's why Atlantis sank: it wasn't a disaster; it was a carefully planned effort to get as much water as possible between them and their arch-enemies the Grays.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

It only blocks the rays *you* know about, me friend. And I'm not telling.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

You don't need to; I know what you're thinking, since you're not wearing anything to block the rays you don't know about.