Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Good Freakin Morning.

Supposed to be Sunny and get to freakin 72°F. What kind of winter is that? And there hasn't been nearly enough precipitation, snow and/or rain. Juat don't like this mild winter stuff. Takes some of the appreciation away from good weather when it's supposed to be good weather.

[GH85Carrera]

I like the mild winter. We could use some rain but no frozen crap.

Happy Hump day everyone.

[Oh Haha]

Nothing like discovering a plumbing issue at 10 pm. Luckily, it was a simple fix of a seal on the sink stopper.

Happy Humpus Day!

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. the close out begins. need to wrap up all paperwork for new insurance today and pray it only goes up by the given amount of $500 per month over now.

[GH85Carrera]

Good luck with insurance costs.

Obama has made my insurance go up about $250 per month more with lower deductibles and coverage. It was not cheap before.

[flipper35]

Morning gents. I did not take Glen's advice of "don't get sick" so I am going back home to my wamr bed to watch something. Maybe Last Man Standing (Bruce Willis movie) or Finish I am Legend.

Our first lab was eager to please and train other than speak. Could never in 10 years get her to speak on command. She did learn stay but one day she was being rambunctious in the house and I was going to take a shower. She kept pestering to play and I finally said in a very stern voice to sit and stay figuring she would last about as long as it took for me to get in the shower. She was still there when I got out. I felt bad after that one.

[Porsche-poor]

When I started here in '93 the company paid all the ins fees. Slowly over time we had to "share" the cost. Now with the new company my "share" is much larger. The dead line is March first and we have yet to receive the "offer" letters telling us what we will make and exactly what benny's we will be getting. I know of several engineers that got not raise reviews after the 1st and are looking to bail if the offer letter is below their current pay rate.

[porsche4life]

Ooof... Heading over to play plumber at Thuy's moms house. Got a toilet leaking and a faucet that needs replaced not hard or dirty work, but not much fun either!

[Porsche-poor]

bummer. But I'm sure Thuy will be happy.

[GH85Carrera]

I hate plumbing crap. Most is not real hard, but it all sucks.

Hopefully the toilet work is the tank and does not require pulling the toilet off.

Most every plumbing job requires at least two trips to the hardware store.

[RKDinOKC]

From the way back machine, in the 80's. Got a new job at the company. Moved from being a machinist working in the machine shop to being a draftsman in the Graphic Arts and Engineering Department. Took a vacation right before the change of position to get my bio clock reset. Was working nights and would be changing to days. Got home from my vacation Sunday nite to find I had a plumbing leak. Was a crawlspace home and a pipe was leaking under the middle of the house. Had to miss my first day of work to crawl in the mud and put a saddle clamp on the leak. What a muddy mess that was.

Ended up replacing most all of the copper pipes under the house not long later. The house was 25 years old.

[RKDinOKC]

Bought a new toilet for my master bathroom and Home Depot offered a free installation so I freaking let them! Camber kept stealing his flashlight. She loved flashlights and chasing the light like a cat and a laser pointer. The toilet is one of those new tech that use less water and will flush a bucket of ping pong balls. Not that I have ever needed to flush a bucket of ping pong balls.

Was having problems with the toilet in my guest bathroom. Was flushing real slow and kept having to replace the tank stuff. My brother replaced the toilet in his 3 year old house because the seat was too low for him and brought his old one over and offered to put it in. He brought one of this grandkids to teach him so I only got to watch. Glad I wasn't very involved, the flange coming up to the toilet had broken and had to be dug out and replaced.

That paid my brother back for helping him replace the sewer lines from his house to the mains when I was a teen. He had me helping him dig the line up by hand. After an hour I left and rented a backhoe. He even had a garage in his back yard so it all you had to do was open the gate and drive it in. Good thing I did because his pipes had collapsed where it goes down to the main and it had become an earthen cistern. Had to dig down thru that human muck to put in proper pipe. That was nasty.

It was kinda funny cause he thought I had left and bailed on him. When he came out and saw me playing with the back hoe, he took over and all I did was watch from then on. When he went to fill it back in a few days later after the city had inspected his connection to the main and he again was going to do it by hand. I showed up with the re-rented backhoe and got it done much faster.

My parents needed the sewer line orange byrd junk replaced the second time. Told some friends about having to rent a backhoe and replacing the line. One of the friends was a plumber and did it with pvc using his own backhoe in his off hours for a $20 bag. The house had and alley behind and beside the house. We routed it to the sewer in the alley beside instead of behind making it a LOT shorter and a lot less digging and pipe. 'There was some question of the legaiity of tapping into the sewer in a different location, so we covered it up real quick like without getting it inspected. We also avoided taking out the cherry tree Dad had planted right over the old line, most likely the cause of the collapse in the first place.

[GH85Carrera]

The house I bought in 1980 as my bachelor pad was built in the late 1940s. Nothing was standard, nothing was normal. It had lead pipes for the sewer. Try to find a way to hook a drain to the lead pipe. The bathtub had two individual handles in the tub. I had to cut a hole in the dining room wall to get to the parts. I had to take the entire assembly to a faucet repair place and he could dig around in his parts bin and find the parts to make it work for another 5 or 6 years.

The entire house electrical was in metal conduit and the house only had a 80 amp service, just 4, 20 amp breakers. I had to move the loads around to redistribute the loads. The house had been updated to central heat and air. To keep the AC running if the washing machine or the dishwasher were in use I had to use the circuit to the bedroom. It was a mess.

The house had one phone. In the center of the hallway in a little alcove. I installed a bunch of phone lines. I had three phone lines for a while back when I was running a BBS with two modems.

It was a good old house, but I don't really miss it. Our house now is 20 years old. Much better.

[RKDinOKC]

Got the old house new in 1961 just before I turned 2. Sold it and used half the money on a downpayment for this house in 1996. It was built in 1981, but more importantly was about the only house I found you could get around in and from the driveway in the front door in a wheel chair.

My parents spent a lot of my Dad's retirement helping my brother and his wife in Atlanta. Mom pretty much gave them the rest of it after my brother came down with MS and she was helping them. Basically when my Mom ran out of money my brother's wife divorced him. Mom and I took my brother in. With all that they had given to help my brother in Atlanta all we had was my income and my Mom's meager social security to live on. My brother didn't even get social security disabily for several years.

We discovered my brother's ex wife was sucking them dry. She had EVERYTHING in her name because she was afraid his two other exes would get their money. One was taking him to court once a year to make sure he was getting the right child support, which was none thanks to her putting everything in her hame. Mom was helping organize the ex's desk, because the ex asked her, and found some bank receipts showing the ex had well over $100K socked away in a bank account yet was telling Mom they couldn't pay their bills and was about to lose their house. Think their confrontation may have caused the divorce.

When I asked my brother about it he said he can't handle the stress with his MS and just needed to cut and run and forget about it.

A few years later after not hearing from her she called telling him he needed to get involved because she was being audited, was facing some healthy fines, and he was involved and would have to help pay the fines because he was her husband at the time. I heard his side of the phone call and he said...You know. I would really like to help you. but...you put everything in your name making sure that I was in no way legally connected to your financial affairs. So why don't you just use all that money you took from my Mom and Dad. She hung up and we never heard from her again.

She had even set up a company that got paid for my brother's jobs. To "keep the exes from getting it" but is also made him not having an income the entire time they were married.

If I ever come face to face with her it would take all the restraint I could muster to keep from socking her in the face,

[Outback Porsche]

Hi guys,

Loitering at the doc's

[Outback Porsche]

Now loitering in the coffee shop

[Outback Porsche]

A cute blonde chick behind the counter

[Outback Porsche]

Oh well, prolly should make my way back to the W place

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I hate plumbing crap. Most is not real hard, but it all sucks.

Hopefully the toilet work is the tank and does not require pulling the toilet off.

Most every plumbing job requires at least two trips to the hardware store.

You cursed me you bastard... Roots had grown up around the drain pipe and down through it. Flange was all rusted out and had to be replaced. Bet I pulled 3 ft of roots out of the pipe. Poured copper sulfate down the gap they came up in. Warned her that she should have a dead plant soon!




After that was done I put in a new faucet for her. The supply lines didn't look great but I didn't have time for another run to the store so I'll get a new set and change them this weekend

[RKDinOKC]

That looks like one of the reasons plumbers make the big bucks.