Man, what a crazy-ass week.

Since we left our hero at the end of the last episode of Panzoland, he's been on call and busy as Hell after a stock market plunge.

Got a service call at 4:30AM Saturday. Some homeless inebriate had whacked the front door window at one of our properties near Qwest Field and "starred" the glass. After being assured by the security dude who reported it and had me woke (woken? awakened? waked? damn.) that the glass was intact, I waited for the smeary gray dawn and enough light to accurately pepper spray a bum by.

Well what transpired was a more-than-four-hour call that saw me put 39 miles in the kitty (and the kitty, she is sore haha) as I drove from hardware behemoth to hardware behemoth in search of UV window film or glazier's tape to hold the window glass in place until Monday.

Exasperated, I came home, picked up the remnants of the roll of UV film that I had here and covered the damn window.

Got the same call at 4:30AM on Monday morning. I guess the guard service doesn't encourage much communication between security dudes. Damnit.

On Monday we had a classical windstorm (no, not an oboe player with gas - A Northwest rain-and-wind event). An elevator broke down at one of my properties. A reported leak at another turned into a nightmare.

While seeking out the leak, I had to crawl around an attic space above a restaurant (the leak was pouring water into the ladies restroom). At first I thought for sure that water was running out of their air handler. They all have drain lines that sometimes plug up with algae-slime. Something just wasn't right about how the water was coming out of the suspect air handler though. So I had to crawl across the attic and under the unit to take the chicken to the other side and I found...

Holy shit! There was a pinhole in the fire sprinkler line! Dayum! It wasn't the A/C unit at all (which would have made it the tenant's problem and not mine).

The good thing was that I learned how to shut down the wet system that serves that area in case anything like that happens again. The bad thing was I got really dirty and wet. But I did log a half-hour of overtime pay while helping the fire suppression dudes fix the hole. Plus, I got to know them a bit better and rapport with your vendors is always a good thing.

Let's see. Tuesday was almost normal. Yesterday was nutz. We have a new tenant moving into one of our buildings. It's actually a 3/4 city block of co-joined buildings that's served by a common alley/driveway and a common parking garage off of that alley.

So the new people had four pallets of office furniture delivered while the Bossman and I were there yesterday. The delivery came at lunch time. One of the tenants in the complex is one of the more famous and prestigious restaurants in Seattle.

So people are going to lunch and using the elevator. Tons of other people are showing up for important business lunches and using the alley/garage. Then this 30-foot delivery truck wants into the alley and a hundred chairs will have to go up on the elevator.

Bossman and me wound up breaking down the pallets ourselves and humping the chairs up but man, it took forever and pissed off a whoooole bunch of people.

Now today I have to draw a floor plan of the newly remodeled new tenant's digs so I can map the doors. Nearly all of the doors in the place will have a lock on them so I have to take the cylinders to the locksmith's and have them create a new "office master" keying and add a new, different keying on each lock. Woot.

I got a service call at 1AM this morning and I'm not even on call any longer! It took me so long to wake up and get oriented that by the time I did, the answering service had hung up. When I called them, the number rang forever. I'm assuming they called Bossman who is permanent backup. Hey - that one wasn't my fault. Bossman sent out the new on call email but I bet he forgot to tell the service.

Oh well. Time to make the donuts...