Lesson Learned

So, the shower in our bathroom here in the Malting House is one of those ones that is a hybrid shower-bathtub. Not uncommon. But, until two days ago, the issue was that it had one of those kind of half-door things on it that are popular in England. They go up to like a normal height that a shower curtain rung would be at, but they start at the outside edge of the tub closest to where the showerhead is, and only go about halfway along. So if you can get water to travel in a weird trajectory, it can go around the little half-door and onto the floor.

Now, apparently I'm kind of splashy, because the floor always ends up wet after I take a shower. Sometimes just a little puddle, sometimes a pond. (It happens to other people sometimes, too, but I seem to be a particular culprit.)

Anyway, it seems that Darwin seems to have finally gotten sick of the wet floor, because it has finally installed a normal shower curtain. It took them two full days to do it, crawling up into the attic above, bringing in multiple ladders, ec. But they did it, and now we have a normal shower curtain and the stupid door is gone.

But I'm pretty sure the moral of the story is that if you have bad (splashing) habits and don't fix them, the rest of the world around you will change to accomodate them. Cool!

Also, a few other Nika-updates:
1. Nick's car is broken. Apparently his "engine management unit" is managing the engine by not letting it run. It's getting taken to the garage tomorrow. So this probably means no outdoor weekend climbing for us this weekend (which probably wasn't happening anyway). At least it did this before our (tentative) road trip to Spain and France over spring break.
2. OUMC-CUMC Varsity Climbing Competition is on Saturday. Stay tuned for updates on that one ... I'm sure I'll have many thoughts and opinions.