I just can’t help but think that our country is broken.

I am no fan of big government. However, living in Michigan I do like to see ‘Great Lake’ states taking measures to protect the waters.

September 23, Detroit Free Press: The U.S. House of Representatives approved the eight-state agreement, which protects the lakes from diversion, by a vote of 390-25 shortly after noon today. President George W. Bush has already said he will sign it into law.

Not that I completely agree with this, one commenter had an idea to just tax the water leaving the lakes

FoonTheElder wrote: We need to treat our water just like Alaska & Texas treats oil. We need a severance tax applied that is 75% of the cost of every drop of water leaving the Great Lakes, just like we pay to Alaska & Texas for oil.

After some poking I have opened a Facebook. This seems to have brought much joy to a few people. I cannot guarantee the quantity or quality of anything there. However, if you know me then you should be able to find me.

In the past almost four years that littleprncess and I have owned our house we have never had a water problem in the basement. Maybe I cannot say that we’ve never had a water problem in the basement, the washer has spewed suds all over the place before. We have never had a flooding problem in the basement before yesterday.
When I hear about water in a basement I imagine about a foot of standing water. This was definitely not the case in my basement. One wall started to seep water. It is a very slow leak right at the bottom of the stairs. At this moment nothing appears to be in danger of getting damaged. I have placed a small little wall of caulk across the floor in an attempt to divert the water to the low point of the floor. This low point also happens to be where the non-flooding floor drain is.
So now we have to come up with a solution for the next time that it rains for almost 48 hours straight.