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So Monday morning I get ready for work, as I'm walking out the door I decide to peek in the basement just to make sure everything was ok. Good thing I did because there was an inch or two of water, the pump wasn't triggered, and the dehumidifier was running (and connection between the cord and the extension cord was submerged). Basically all the water than had been leaking and had been pumped out, combined with the meltwater from the two ft of snow we got a few weeks ago and whatever precipitation since, was just seeping back in. The pump spits the water out basically right on the other side of the foundation so it filters right back in, and the pump stopped overnight. So that was cool.

Oh man that guy was like a reverse-packard

yes

that reminds me of "ASMB Politics: The Fanfic" it was about a forbidden love, I want to say between peanutcat and gaius but not 100% sure, basically Romeo and Juliet with ASMB conservatives and liberals. with big action sequences, dance numbers, no actual fanfic, and comments from people who didn't get the joke.

Kid I used to work with loved Popeye's. Every couple weeks we'd get wings for lunch from a local place down the street from the office but one time he made me go with him to get Popeye's instead and it was so disappointingly (but not surprisingly) unmemorable.

I'm making fun of the state's lack of safety standards you dingus

Also Texas:

It doesn't help that he disappeared for a while even though the show remained in syndication, so we stay familiar with 1990s Jerry and then 2010s Jerry pops out to say hi.

New tank installed. It's a 50 gallon again because it was actually cheaper than the 40 gallon. Hopefully not garbage because I don't need to do this again in the near future.

I am plugged into the town I do not use well water.

My poison is an electric tank currently being installed while I hope it hurries up because y'all kept me up too late and I need a nap.

I am incapable

The fireplace is a no-go. It was claimed to be operational and the prior owners definitely used it, but the first thing the fireplace inspector said when we wanted to start using it the following winter (before he even stuck a camera in or anything) was "DO NOT USE THIS". It needs like $7K worth of work to fix everything and be safe and code-compliant. But he said the more important problem and contributing factor to that is that the lining from the furnace in the basement into the chimney, and then the lining in the chimney, is shot. The acidic gasses venting out from the furnace (it's actually a boiler for the radiators, and it was converted from oil-burning to gas-burning at some point, a conversion that's evidently prone to this issue) ate through the linings and are eating through the mortar in the chimney. It isn't like carbon-monoxide urgent but that was going to be the immediate thing to do until the poop-pipe incident, and now this so it's bumped back one further. I believe the electric is all safe but it needs upgrading. New/larger switchbox, most all the outlets are two-prong, need more outlets, stuff like that. Electrician was here about two years ago to close off an outlet so we could put up a cabinet there and we talked it out, but then everything else plus two years.

We had to replace most of the original line draining out of the house a couple months ago. The 70 year old rusted, crack, and corroded cast iron couldn't be snaked and had to be replaced. It was on our to-do list to replace it all anyways (and if it weren't an emergency I would have had him do the whole job at once rather than just the last 50ft), but you're never ready for it when it's actually time. And now the water tank, which was not even on the list, jumped ahead of things like replacing the lining for the heating boiler and fireplace ventilation or upgrading the electric. So if we die from a preventable cause, just know we could at least take hot showers up until the last day.

Yeah, we're just not really in a position to take advantage of "cracky's best investment evar" right now, so cheap 40 gallon electric tank it probably will be.

I am really touched that you worry about me.

Yeah, the plumber stopped by to scope it out with my father and they think the easiest thing to do is just replace the tank, probably downsizing from 50 gal to a 40 gal to save money now and on energy usage over time. It's an electric hook-up now (though the other boiler for the radiator system is gas-powered, apparently converted from oil) so that would complicated with tankless if we explored that direction.

but also it's an absolute visual showcase and I can't look away

my aunt and uncle replaced their tank with a tankless system a couple weeks ago when theirs started leaking

Christmas/new years on Wednesdays is just an absolute mindfuck. TGIF

so what's the deal with tankless, I've heard good things

that's what you think

where is cracky when you need him uuuuugggggghhhh

when are you tax exempt