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<\/a><\/p>\nToday was mostly a driving day, and not a very pleasant one! For one thing,\u00a0we had a bit of a delay in the morning after a night full of surprises: We\u00a0had quite a massive thunderstorm with pouring rain in the late evening, and\u00a0as we were watching the rain come down in sheets, our smoke alarm suddenly\u00a0started beeping, and water poured through the opening in the ceiling where\u00a0it was mounted! We quickly moved the empty cooler in the spot, and when we\u00a0called the building maintenance, they promised to come in the morning. But\u00a0by that time, it had happened one more time (around 1 am in the morning),\u00a0with more water coming through that opening. And then at 6 am, the actual\u00a0fire alarm for the building went off in the hallway, and the fire department\u00a0came with a couple of trucks! We actually assumed (not smelling smoke) that\u00a0it was the same problem, and although Mark went downstairs, I and also our\u00a0houseguest, Tricia, stayed in the apartment. Ironically, it was not the\u00a0same problem–but it was a totally separate water issue in the sprinkler\u00a0system, so it was still water-related!<\/p>\n
We managed to go back to sleep after the firemen had left the building, and\u00a0then waited until we got to talk to the maintenance guy, who came knocking\u00a0at our door around 8:30. But the beauty of not owning a house, but a condo,\u00a0is that we could then still take off rather than having to deal with the\u00a0repairs, which involve a clogged drain on the roof–the building is\u00a0responsible for that. We left at about 10 am, and then finally got on the\u00a0road. We took off in the rain, and it pretty much rained all the way until\u00a0we stopped–sometimes just a bit, sometimes in massive amounts, but it never\u00a0stopped all day! So we just drove straight through to Joliet outside of\u00a0Chicago, only taking a lunch break at a cheap diner somewhere in Iowa (“The\u00a0Embers,” lunch box collection on shelves, that sort of thing). At around\u00a06:30, we ended checking in at the Harrah’s Casino Hotel in Joliet, because I\u00a0thought Mark should at least have a little poker after some really heroic\u00a0driving with poor visibility and nasty road conditions. (Plus, his\u00a0discounts make staying at casinos pretty cheap!) So we had dinner at the\u00a0casino buffet (decent, not wonderful), and then I crawled into bed to read\u00a0while Mark stayed and played poker for a little bit. But we were both in\u00a0bed and asleep before 11.<\/p>\n
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