I couldn’t sleep. Had too much coffee today… I mean yesterday. I arrived home a few minutes past midnight today from BGC to have dinner with a long-time source to catch up on what’s going on in our lives. I told him I already gave up my managerial duties so I can pursue more stories for myself. This is why I’m reaching out once again to people whom I’ve neglected to communicate with for years that I was so busy chasing after stories for my team members.

I’ll be doing more outreach in the coming days to re-establish my connections.

The price of home ownership.

My entire morning yesterday was occupied by overseeing the declogging of pipes for our gray water leading to the gray water tank. The catchments overflowed during the week-long storm/s. Of course, we couldn’t ignore that so I had to call several declogging and septic tank cleaners in our province yesterday early morning.

I knew it was from my sisters because the pipes came from their bathrooms. My bathroom drains have fine meshes that catch debris and hair so my conscience is clear that these hair didn’t come from us. Plus the pipes came directly from their house. 😏

Not sure how long they last had the pipes declogged because we weren’t still living here. This is one of the many chores that should regularly be done when you own a house, along with clean-up of rain gutters and roof check-ups.

If you’re renting, all of these are your landlord’s duties. If the landlord is such a cheapskate (like my former landlord), then you will have a leaky and flood-prone home.