Footprints on the Moon

At some point over the weekend, I noticed that some of the tiles in my shower looked like they were coming off the wall. If I pushed on them in that area, the wall moved. Uh yeah, probably not a good thing, right? So I called it in this morning as I left for work, and at about 9am or so, one of the maintenance guys called to see if it was a good time to go look at my shower. I never heard anything back so I had no idea what I was going to walk into when I came home. The shower is obviously going to need re-tiled, and even though I didn’t want to have to make other shower arrangements for tomorrow, I was hoping the work would have been started. Except it wasn’t. Do you want to see what I found when I came home?

Oh yeah… Plastic wrap and duct tape! Sweet! That’s a high quality repair job right there. Okay, they’ll be coming back to “fix” it eventually, I’ll give them that but this I was not expecting. I suppose I should have… See that note in the corner? Here’s what it said:

So at “?” in the future, I’ll have a shower that’s been fixed. Until then, I have duct tape and a sheet of plastic. And time to figure out where I’ll be showering on “?” day in question… I’ll be packing my Rimowa luggage and hiking somewhere with my shampoo. If nothing else, there are showers at work I can use. In the meantime, sigh.

It seems like everywhere I turn, all I keep hearing about is the iPhone. I don’t know about you, but I’m not really interested. One of my coworkers wants one and is always trying to convince me to buy one so he can play with it and see if he actually wants one. I told him to go to the AT&T store and play with it there! Then my grandmother emailed me to find out what the “eye phone or aye phone” is, and does she want one? I think you can tell already that the answer is “no.” Personally I bought an unlocked phone direct from Motorola back in January. I did it that way so I wouldn’t have to extend my cell phone contract for another 2 years by purchasing through the cell phone company, and I think that’s worth the extra money I had to pay out of pocket for it. The phone works just fine, and I sure as heck don’t need another $200 phone with a bunch of features I wouldn’t ever use, and don’t even want.