wacky1980

yeah, i'm excited about doing that. that old water heater may not survive any more stresses. i had to empty it and shop-vac the lime out of it a year ago, and replace both elements because one died and the other was leaking. i'd like to not be buying a new one anytime soon. ~~~ so this morning, there's another leak being fixed, right across the street from my day job. it's probably been leaking since monday night as well, but it's a much smaller leak by the look of it, so it didn't bubble up to the surface until overnight. water pressure is low, but still running. looks like the boil order will probably reach into the weekend now, assuming no more breaks elsewhere. lovely.

i got my new javy jersey in the mail yesterday. he better not start sucking now.

that's the thing though. i have to boil the water to use it for anything besides the shower and the shitter. if there's no water at all, i just hop in the truck and visit a friend 3 miles away on the rural water system. no boiling or being careful with poisonous deathwater. or just get tired of the bullshit and use the boil order water without taking precautions. i'm pretty sure i survived an entire childhood on the farm, drinking whatever water i found in nature, almost always downstream from some livestock. still not dead, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bait money. betta watch yo back.

not having running water at all does make life kinda shitty. otoh, if we close the bar for a couple days due to no running water, i'm relieved of one big part of the whole headache. so it's kinda a toss-up for me. an aside. the same fiber installers supposedly hit a gas line this afternoon. still waiting on confirmation on this one. i don't know if they're to blame for being reckless, or if whoever JULIEd the utilities did a shitty job. but someone's ass is about to get taught after all this bs.

it doesn't count as "lost" when you stole it, even if you stole it from the lost and found.

boiling is the preferred method, but you're correct. you can also use regular bleach to sanitize water that's already been filtered (if need be). i have brewery sanitizers that would work too, but they're kinda expensive in comparison. however, it's hard to fill a basin with water when the taps don't produce.

this is the question we've been presented with for the last 24 hours. after the city-contracted fiber installers punctured a water line right behind our house yesterday, a series of events has made the entire city's water situation about as bad as possible. first was the flooding of the backyards, which went on for about two hours yesterday afternoon while the city was attempting to get the water shut off to that section of the system. they couldn't find the shutoff for that particular line (?!) so they had to take down the entire city system. they dug out the line, cut out the bad section and spliced it, and turned the water back on. no leaks, yay! so starting at about 7pm, we slowly regained water pressure again. under a boil order, of course, but at least we could flush toilets. good enough, right? until word came in around 9pm that when the city re-pressurized the system, another line suffered a blowout. a much larger line. in the middle of an intersection on main st. uh-oh. i started filtering and boiling water, because i had a feeling we'd be losing water again soon enough. it took until about 4am for them to shut down the entire city again, but in the meantime i got 8 gallons of water filtered, boiled, and put into containers. finally got a bit of use out of some of that old SHTF gear lol. water was turned back on again about 10am. once again, under a boil order. so far, there's been no word of any other leaks, but smaller leaks will take time to find because they won't blast up through the ground like the big one last night did. in the meantime, the water coming out of the taps is a murky grey color, almost black at times. yum. and we also have the bar to worry about. when this happens (and it happens more often than i think it should) we have a "water crisis" mode we activate. we have to shut down the ice machine and use bagged ice (either from us filling bags previously or by going to the gas station and buying it). we switch all serving cups to single-use plastic. restrooms get sanitized water dispensers for hand-washing, and hand sanitizer for that extra little kick. wash sinks get either boiled and bleach-then-chlorine sanitized tubs. etc etc. it's a nuisance, but we can stay open. when water is off completely, things become a bit more complicated. when you can't flush your toilets, there's not really any way you can justify keeping the doors open. i'm tempted to grab several 5-gallon jugs and go fill them at a local public spring, and keep them on hand to occasionally fill toilets for a good flush if we get to that point again today. but that's not exactly up to code, so i don't know if i'd even attempt it if we went down again. might just close up shop until shit's working again. tl;dr been without potable water for 24 hours. been without water, at all, for half of that time. the answer to which is worse? neither. they both suck ass.

shitty cameraphone shot freehand through an un-calibrated scope. also, drunk. this thing is capable of displaying the rings of saturn. it will do a lot better, after i spend some time on it and get some better eyepieces.

i did the porch chilling thing myself last night. broke out the brand new telescope and fiddled with it a bit, checked out the moon through the clouds. without having done any actual work dialing it in and getting it collimated, it still did ok with pictures from my phone taken freehand thru the eyepiece. i got drunk af too so that was nice.

that's because dudes don't like to vocalize that kinda shit. we usually just kinda wander off quietly.

lol, "nagina" sounds like something fuggs probably hears from teh dudes pretty regular. "nagina for me thanks."

my oldest came over from his mom's one time with an abscess in the crack of his ass, probably from the severe and untreated diaper rash his mom never did shit about. anyways, i took him to the doc, and they had to open it, drain it, and pack it while i held him down. that was one of the top 3 most difficult parenting moments i've encountered yet. poor little feller. anyways, carry on.

they gave me a couple hundred bucks for the contents they sold. as for the lumber, i might get a few hundred back if those guys make a good chunk from selling it, but there's not set amount on that because they have cost in machinery and labor to take it all down. after they're done, i have a local landfiller / scrapper coming and sorting off all the scrap iron to haul off, and he's deducting whatever he makes on that from the bill for taking the rest of the debris to the landfill. they've taken a full 40-yard rolloff box of debris out so far, might be two or three more boxes left after deconstruction. all said and done, it might cost me a couple thousand to remove the whole thing and end up with a clean lot.

these guys doing the work fit that bill pretty well. they scavenged the entire building, looking for anything that would be worth reselling before they started the deconstruction. they probably sold a couple thousand $ worth of stuff out the door before the demo started. i could have done it myself but i don't have the time or contacts those guys have. i almost called up the american pickers guys because their main office is only a couple hours from here, but i didn't want to put my personal business all over the tv.

building is coming down. it took a couple weeks to get the contents cleared and to dismantle the inside. now they're working on the shell, so there's finally some visible progress being made. monday and wednesday the rest of the south corner 2nd level (left side in last pic) is gone today as well. the demo guys are reclaiming all the wood they can through this process. just yesterday, they hauled off over 7000 sqft of 1x floorboards, wall boards, and roof boards (used instead of sheathing back in the day). the truss coming down from the roof is some good 2x12 stuff too, some as long as 25'. you can't see it in these pics, but there's an old hand-powered freight elevator in the back of the building as well that's still intact, and it will come down next week with the help of some heavy equipment to lift it out piece by piece.

i'm sorry, your accent is so thick i can't understand you. your ass is thick today from not working out since last wednesday? did i get it right this time?

your what is thick today?

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we started stocking this a few weeks ago. i agree, it's surprisingly drinkable, which is something when it's coming from pabst. i'm currently enjoying a couple new-to-us beers: dogfish head dragons and yum-yums, and 4 hands contact high juiced. tonight i get to try a couple we just got in from left hand: death before disco porter and juicy goodness golden ale. exciting.

i saw an original painting while i was at a craft beer bar with the wife on saturday night. it was a painting of a busy intersection, right here in town. and for kicks, there was an orc just strolling along down the center of the street. i didn't think of it at the time, but i should have snapped a pic of the painting, because "the orc on york" was very well done...a bit surreal, but quite interesting.

sorry, i shouldn't spoil it for ya. just keep watching.

this is like some weird-ass donnie darko shit. you're seeing your own future played out in front of you. there will come a point when this story reaches critical mass, and the plot will abruptly rewind to you laying out on your therapist's couch. then a charter bus carrying the thunder down under crew crashes through the wall and flattens your ass to the grill.

can attest to this. we had a "water backup" problem when we lost power for 12 hours during heavy rains, and i didn't have battery backup on my sump pump. we had about 2" of water throughout the basement for an hour before we got it out with a gas-powered trash pump. i had to cut out the first foot of drywall, remove all the doors and trim, tear out a staircase, and pull up all the carpet. luckily, the standing water didn't take out the furnace or water heater. we ended up not having any mold problems, probably because we were quick to get the damaged stuff out and get the basement dry real quick. then we coated everything with kilz before building everything back up. that was a sucky summer.