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Ohh, scary…Friday the 13th beware. Well nothing real bad happened, so that’s good. But our basement did develop a little bit of a flood (more of a backup really). See picture:

If you look close enough you can see, yep you guess it, chunks of food. Apparently everything that was washed down from the kitchen sink would end up in the basement. I found some humor in the situation (as I do with most situations).

Great, now what do we do? We called our home owners insurance that came with our house. They were nice enough to put us in touch with a plumber. The main benefit to having home owners insurance is that you only have to pay a deductible. So instead of paying $140+ for hiring a plumber to come clean (or snake) the pipes we’d only have to pay our $55 deductible. That’s good. But still, being that Amy and I are trying to save up money for China we’re looking to cut corners where possible. I talked to my dad who told me how to do it myself. So, long story short, after only 3 feet of snake, our pipes were cleared and I saved myself $55! Hooray!

Onto the next bit of interesting Friday the 13th business. It snowed! In April!

Granted it was more of dusting, it still counts.

On a different note: I saved a Mac today. Ugh very, very frustrating. [for any mac-heads out there] What’s the deal with how valuable Fonts are to the Mac system? Anyway, below is what I stared at for a couple hours. It was a good learning experience I guess. And yes I use all 3 of the computers.

One more thing. Our small group is doing really well. I think in coming weeks we might have to split to keep the group healthy. (we’re running 12-14 average). We’re studying the book of Mark and this next week we’ll be in Chapter 3. Man I love Mark, short and to the point. But of course sometimes the details that he left out are important.

Last thing I promise, I love Facebook.