ha! i arrive home late last night only to find my pond empty, there is still a leak and i have located it somewhere in the stream. fortuantly my hardy fish survived existing in a small pool of accumulated water left after the pump evacuated all water that it could manage. i turn off the pump and refil the pond again, call my pool man who will visit in the week. the day saw me heading into the city with some work people, i picked up an interesting book on NASA i'm looking forwards to reading. currently i am halfway through 'maringold' a sort of eco lovecraftian dectective story about a city based around toronto where corperate greed and post capitalism exploits all the residents one way or the other, the technology of the future becomes gothic, the charachters fated to an inexplicable encounter with the strange fungal intelligence that lays underneath their city, slowley rising and becoming known, commnicating and manifestting upon the surface as some kind of recognisable form. our two female investigators under the employee of the sinister govt dept and part private company start their investigation into the labyryth of sinkholes and subterranean infrastructure that lays beneath the city as the most powerful invididuals plot their neferious plans. the book takes the main theme and divides it against tennents inhabiting the marigold by siute number, each tennent being integral to the story although none exactly likable charachters as their tragectories converge. it's a good story, well written and paced and has some great observations about the decline of the west.