wacky1980

non sequitur much?

does your nose work? do you even have a nose?

they're not here. you are. what does that cigarette smell like?

so what did it smell like?

i just told you, i quit. how about you light one and tell me.

just trying to make conversation. i quit like a year ago and i don't remember. what does cigarette smoke smell like?

what does a cigarette smell like?

must have been pretty awkward for gendry and arya, being seated like 3 feet from each other for that meeting. glad they didn't explore that tension like, at all.

nah. they paid extra for that loud muffler, just to annoy you and the other geriatrics. a damn fine investment, imho.

well i blanked out for about 2 hours from he pills. back up now, and we're about 30 minutes from round 2 of this storm. it will move through quite a bit faster than the first one, so we might only get 1/4" this time. not sure if it's the reassurance of lower rainfall totals or the pills, but i'm feeling better about it this evening.

ugh, i hate the rain. showers are ok. thunderstorms are ok. but torrential downpours fucking send me. my old house trained me to hate the rain, because every hard rain would take the basement sump pump right to its limit. even after i installed a battery backup. still couldn't get easy during heavy rain. after we moved in 2016, that kinda faded off. the new place gets a wet basement, but it's not finished so it doesn't bother me when a bit of water gets in. but now we're having issues at the bar. the city has chewed off the sealcoat in the alley and now the rainwater from the gutters doesn't run off into the storm sewers. it goes right down through the stripped road, finds its way through our foundation, and pools up in the basement there. it's been getting progressively worse with each heavy rain. i'm concerned a hard enough rain over a long enough time period is just gonna wash it out and the whole building will collapse. i've complained to the city three different times and they only respond with "it's on the list". great. cool. i'm sure it's an irrational concern. i hope it is anyways. but its been bad enough lately that i'm taking xanax every time i know there's a big storm coming. not sure it helps. maybe i need one of those thundershirts people put on their dogs. anyways, this latest storm just sent round 1 past us, and we got about 1-1/2" of rain in 2 hours. there's more forecast for around 6pm, possibly that much again. it's kicking my ass just thinking about it headed this way. fuck.

i've never applied plaster, but i've gutted a couple houses full of it. current house is all plaster, and i know that means we'll be removing it all in time. ugh. as for drywall, i'll hang the shit all day but i'm no good with mud. tapered edges, maybe passable. butt edges? be looking like fuggs' belly roll.

so now i'm sitting here thinking about this whole thing. my lead plumber has been offsite all day, so his two helpers are the ones doing all the work. not entirely sure how honest these guys are. it's possible they fucked something up themselves, and are pushing off the blame on an easy target. maybe i should call the lead plumber to make sure i have my facts straight before unloading on the mayor...

oh, it ain't done yet. i made the mistake of checking in with the plumbers at lunch. they were HOT. we have already established that the city installed the meter too close to the foundation. turns out they also installed it about a foot deeper than they were supposed to. and they were supposed to leave a 3' whip (using the plumber's terms) outside the meter pit for the plumbers to tie on. the whip was only 5" and was stubbed off inside the pit. so the plumbers had to dig all the way down and cut through the pit wall to get to the stub on the meter (apparently that's a no-no because the plumber isn't supposed to touch anything inside the pit?). and now i'm short about 5 tons of rock because we had a big hole to backfill. the plumbers are a full day behind now, and won't be done until at least monday. the city's guy in charge of all things road, water, & sewer is a god damned idiot. he's been responsible for a lot of fuck-ups in the few years he's had the job. my brother-in-law is the county highway dept commissioner and has been witness to a lot of the fuck-ups. a couple years ago, the county made a promise to the city that they would not put their name on any projects for the city as long as that particular city guy was involved. BiL and i actually sat down with an alderman last night and had a conversation about this guy, and just how utterly horrible he is at his job. and now today, i'm gonna go talk to the mayor and let him know how much extra time and money this asshole has cost me with this water meter bullshit.

but imagine what happens when they captain planet on that pussy

he's testing you. or maybe he's making room for his new chopper? anyways, new day new update. i spent last night measuring and staking off the lot so the plumber could come in today and do work. he's currently burying plumbing, but just on the lot. he decided he's just going to stub off the sewer at the edge of the alley today, and not going to tie into the sewer main until after concrete is also done. the reason he gave is that it's another day's worth of work and he can do that anytime, so this gets him out of the way and the concrete guy in there a day earlier. i guess that makes sense, but he's already got all his crew and machinery here now so why not just do it now? eh, whatever, it's getting done and it's not like i have to pay him any more to bring everything back onsite in 2 weeks.

but now look at all the excuses he has to come visit his son. silver linings, my man. ~~~ concrete guy got his cuts all made and i had some rock and sand delivered for backfill when the plumber does his work, starting tomorrow. concrete is coming in next week. we're back on schedule. successkid.gif

right? it should have been the most minor thing too. oh well, it's done, so now we can move on with life.

and this morning, concrete and plumbing both decided to get to work. they kinda work in tandem anyways (plus, one recommended the other) and i think today is mostly prep work and a little digging around. would be nice if electrician had his shit together so we could have power turned on (like he was supposed to have done by monday...ugh), so the contractors could power some of their equipment. no, we have drop cords strung across the alley from the bar for now. and the city located their meter too close to where the foundation is supposed to go. we had everything clearly marked (the city even marked their own location), and they were off from that by almost a foot. if i was feeling rather assy this morning, i'd tell them to move it back about 6". but concrete said he can *probably* wiggle his shit enough to avoid it and still be good. i also learned something new about the meter install. apparently i have to purchase the meter and the pit, even though the city still owns it. cool, there's another $650 i wasn't budgeting.

watched the first two eps of CHERNOBYL last night. i feel like i have uranium 235 poisoning now.

so the water meter is being buried as we speak. i'm ok with this. concrete guy has tomorrow/thursday to do his prep work before the plumber is coming in. tangent. i went shopping last night for containers and dirt for the hops. we'll be growing about a dozen hop plants in said containers, mostly for aesthetics (hence the name "hop garden") but also to see if we can produce enough of a harvest to use them for making a few small batches of beer. i'd like to get about 5-10 lbs of "wet" hops from them in this first year. my biggest concern with that is whether customers are gonna leave them alone to do their thing. time will tell.

does streaking count? because i allegedly did that a few times in college. ok, a few dozen times. if we're really only counting sexy times, then i'm probably somewhere between 50 and 100.

beyond me putting my foot down, not really.