Using the Night for What It Was Meant
Sleep.
I don’t really know why, but I’ve been tired for most of the afternoon. As a solution to this situation, I believe that I’m going to go take my shower and fall asleep relatively soon instead of the typical midnight or later bedtime I adhere to on the weekends (or now, really most days). All I really did today was sit around, play games, and watch the pool people fix our pool. Oh yeah…
Yesterday I was doing routine maintenance on our pool when all of a sudden the fountain just died (but I knew for a fact that the pump was still supposed to be on). I raced back to turn off the pump, and through my highly qualified troubleshooting (read: looking at a gauge and turning the system on and off), I determined that the pump wasn’t holding pressure like it should. This happened once last year due to the fault of a cracked O-ring, so I was happy for two reasons: 1) I had a good idea of what it was, and 2) that idea meant that I didn’t break it. We put in a call to our home warranty people and were told that the pool people would contact us Monday morning. Not ideal since we couldn’t run the pool pump all weekend, but nothing catastrophic would happen before then.
Well, this morning they called and wanted to know if we would like an appointment before noon today. When the guy got out here he actually determined that it was a crack in a (very old) lid that was letting air in and therefore not allowing the pump to prime itself. Once replaced, the pool started working fine again. Now, no part of this story involved me exerting myself in any way, so I doubt it’s the reason for me being tired, but including it here provided me an easy way to make this post longer.