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what is that smell Despite some problems beyond my control, today was a great day for me. I was in a good mood all day and I got quite a bit accomplished. Before I go any further into today, I need to finish up some details from yesterday. I had decided to be social last night and went to hang out with my newlywed friends for the evening. For the most part we just sat around talking, but it was nice to get out of the house. The one strange part was that it was almost two months to the day that I last saw them. A minor incident happened when I was leaving their place. To get to the point, I fell down in the parking lot. Yes, I had been drinking, but not that much. It seems that the management doesn't feel it necessary to salt their parking lot. I had mentioned this to Dan when I first pulled into the lot and he said that he had fallen a few weeks earlier. There was that brief moment for me when you know that you are going down and you pray that it won't hurt that much. I went down like a human cartoon minus the cute sound effects. For being an unrehearsed pratfall, I did fairly well and didn't even swear. My left hand smarted a little from the ice, but I didn't draw any blood. It was a real shining moment for me. I had to take my sister to the doctor this afternoon and this led to me seeing a high school classmate of mine. When we went to get my sister's prescription filled, I saw this woman that I recognized. She didn't see me, so I could have just kept walking but I thought that I could at least say hello. It took her a moment to place me, but she knew who I was after some prompting. I felt a little bad, because she was the one who had organized my ten year reunion last year and I hadn't gone. I was with Brenda at the time and something else came up and we didn't go. I am sure that it would have been a big production if we had gone. Perhaps if I was single at the time things might have different. Maybe next time I'll go. I think that my heat problem might be solved. For the past three days it has been going off about twice a day. My landlord said that he had someone look at this afternoon and had some parts replaced. So maybe that is all behind me and I can sleep without wondering if it will be cold when I wake up. Now we have a new problem to solve. I was lying on my couch watching a movie, when I started to smell something. At first I thought that maybe they had burned something downstairs, but then it started to smell more like gas. Once in a while they place a garbage bag with baby diapers in the hall, but this smelt stronger. Then a knock came on my door. My landlord told me that the sewer was backing up in our basement. When we walked down into the basement, I thought that I had walked into an outhouse. It stank so bad that I didn't want to breathe. I couldn't believe that he could keep on talking with the smell being so strong. Suddenly I am glad that I didn't buy this house a year ago when it was offered to me.
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