Thursday, April 05, 2007

High and dry

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- I'm looking out my hotel window at Corpus Christi Bay. If I had a really powerful telescope, I could look straight across the Gulf of Mexico, through St. Petersburg, Fla., and across Tampa Bay to my house, where apparently a toilet exploded, leaving several inches of water on the floor in the bathroom, bedroom and adjoining areas, and possibly enough water under the floor to necessitate replacing it. All of it.

Meanwhile, The Wife has houseguests of both the human and canine variety. In short, we could not have picked a worse day to schedule a plumbing disaster.

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