The Aftermath

It's been quite a while since I started work at LWMA, and I thought that things were starting to fall into a predictable pattern. Go to work, makes cheesecake, go home, play with baby and fall asleep at 10:30. However, something amazing always seems to happen when I least expect it. Yesterday, it suddenly got very dark around 4:30 and the wind started blowing. We all knew there was a thunderstorm on the way, so we didn't pay any attention to it. And then, the rain came pouring down. The first big commotion happened when we heard people shouting in the printing room, far back corner or the office. We walked over to see what the fuss was about and apparently the windows weren't well sealed adn there was water leaking around the glass and dripping right onto our Best Plotter. So all the secretaries were flipping out adn stuffing towels into all the cracks they could find.
After a few minutes, the office manager ran by shouting something about the kitchen, so I went over to see what was happening. The water from our flat roof was coming into the kitchen through the light fixtures. It wasn't a trickle, it was definitely two very big showers of water. Yellow water. We blamed it on a clogged gutter whcih is being fixed today. Then we heard more commotion going on upstairs and found that the roof was also leaking right above all of our servers. All in all, no one did anything but gawk or bail water for the next hour and a half. In the end, the server room and the printer room stopped leaking and someone rigged up a fancy way of geting the water out of the kitchen.
It didn't help that someone let the dogs in and they were running around like maniacs. I suppose the indoors is better than the outdoors in the event of a thunderstorm, but since the storm kept them from going out doors, and the poor puppies had to go, they ended up peeing and pooping in the office...again.... Kathleen has a wonderful photo of her absolute delight at finding a piece of dog poo in the lobby.
Around 6, everything was pretty much back to normal, so we all went back to work. I left after work to go to the busstop only to find that the extra lane for bicycles and mopeds had turned into a crick more than anything. I walked quite a ways till I find a good place to ford the river so to speak. I briefly considered taking my shoes off and walking through the water, but there was so much dirt and debris in it that I wasn't sure I wouldn't step on something gross. Or sharp.
So I made it home, early by my usual standards. I sat around and ate some dinner, read a book adn then Yuko came in with Mumu-chan. A naked Mumu-chan. "He has daiper rash," she said as she dumped him in my arms while she went to make some tea. I just looked down and him and said, "You had better not pee or poop on me." He just looked and me adn started gnawing on the tv remote control. I must say, it's a little akward holding a naked baby, particularly a naked baby boy...
Today I came into work and found the internet out for a time. Ben Finally acepted my gmail invite, but now he needs to get GTalk so we can chat online.But now it's time for lunch! Dumplings!