Thursday, 20 February 2014

I slept well but long last night and woke up feeling quite a bit better. It was still too late to go for a walk, though.

I finally got over to the car repair place today to pay for the work that they did a week ago. They didn't seem to be at all upset about the delay, fortunately.

This morning we heard a dripping sound. At first, we both thought it was something from the refrigerator, which sometimes makes strange sounds but continues to work just fine. But when I went to the laundry room (really, just an alcove off the kitchen), I could tell that there was water dripping in there. I quickly saw that it was coming from some kind of wrapped pipe that comes down from the ceiling and goes into the wall. We've had some dripping from it before, when it rained for more than a few hours, but this was putting out more water (although still only dripping). I immediately called our landlord, and he came over quite quickly. However, even before he arrived, I went outside to take the trash out and heard water out there, too. When I looked up, I could see what the problem was -- there was a fountain of water shooting upwards from the roof of the building! Someone's solar water heater (nor ours, thankfully!) had sprung a leak. The building "manager" later told us that it was one of the apartments on the 2nd floor, and, apparently, they did something about it, because the fountain and the dripping stopped before very long.

We ate lunch again today at Buddha Burgers. David had a shwarma burrito (ate half of it and brought the other half home), and I had "seitan fingers" (breaded and fried glutton sticks).

I taught 5 units today, all back-to-back (although the middle one was a no-show): 2:30-4:00, 4:00-5:30, and 5:30-6:15.

David needed an appointment today with our family doctor, Dr. Vaknin, to get a prescription for the medicine that the ER doctor had prescribed (Maccabi only pays to fill prescription written by THEIR doctors, of course). The only appointment available was at 4:30, right smack in the middle of my teaching time. David insisted that he could go alone to the doctor, and he did! He went there by taxi, but he actually walked back. I have an app on our phones called "Find My Friends" that I can use to track where he is (as long as he has his phone with him), so I used that to keep tabs on him. The taxi driver took him around Robinhood's barn to get to the doctor, but at least he got him to the right place eventually (and well before his appointment). On the way back, David walked past our building and started down the street, so it was lucky that my middle student was a no-show so that I was able to walk out and retrieve him. All in all, it's really wonderful that he can manage that well by himself and can walk that far!

After my last class, I took the prescription he had gotten from the doctor and another one that they hadn't had the last time I was at the pharmacy and got them filled.