Wild Card/Tuesday — 10.6.09

I experienced an unpleasant surprise about 15 to 20 minutes ago when I heard running water almost above my head at HBO Central and then noticed an overhead panel starting to leak. It leaked for about 5 minutes before the building super advised someone — me, in this case — to remove the panel to determine whether a pipe had busted. While I did that and the water stream began to slow to a trickle, the building super discovered that someone in the doc’s office above had allowed a sink to overflow. The gusher missed my computer by about a yard. So all’s good at HBO Central. (Sure glad I’m not located below the toilets on the 3rd floor.) I’ll play this Wild Card and continue to clean things up …