After the Flood

My house doesn’t have a furnace proper, it has a boiler that pumps hot water to registers in each room. Which is a terrific, energy-efficient system, right up to the point where the water pump springs a leak. Oddly enough, it wasn’t the boiler room that flooded, but the closet of the room next door. Which room happens to serve as our (desperately overcrowded) library.
All of which is by way of saying that it’s really lucky that Ty Franck got sick. I was planning on gaming with Ty an’ Daniel an...