It’s a wicked circle, as they say. The only saving feature of this entire global warming episode was the amount of money I made in the online casino while I waited for a plumber who turned out to be a telephone answering service and nothing more. It never, but never, gets cold in this part of the world. Our year consists of 9 months of summer and 3 months of hell when it is so hot you cannot think. As a result, all architecture and service systems are designed and built for the heat with little thought for the cold. So when global warming strikes and the temperature falls to zero, pipes and water heating systems freeze and pipes burst. There is a mad rush for the yellow pages and every plumber listed is flooded with emergency calls.

The one I selected at random said “I can squeeze you in on Tuesday at 10 am.” I was relieved. I was up at 7 and ate something, read the paper, checked the emails, glanced in at the online casino to see if there was any special action planned for this day and then I waited. 8, 9 and 10 came and went. At 11 I called the plumber and got his voice mail. At 12 I called the plumber and got his voice mail. That’s when I understood that it was going to be very long day and that I had better keep myself otherwise amused. I logged into the online casino and got into a game of Texas Hold’em, the one with the video and the ‘live’ dealer.

I stood up from the online gambling at about 3, almost $2,000 ahead and with a blinding headache from the concentration. I ate something, drank a cup of coffee, swallowed a handful of headache pills and went back to the game. I stood up again at midnight, rushed to the bathroom, ate another sandwich and drank another cup of coffee. I counted my chips, I’m up close to 5 grand. The plumber? Who cares?

Posted on: January 24, 2008

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