Posts Tagged ‘plumbing’

Lessons learned and things accomplished

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

While I’ve been out on fur­lough this week, I accom­plished a few things around the house (though not per­haps as much as I would have liked) and in the process I learned a few things about myself. I han­dle hot weather now about as well as I did when I was twelve, which is to […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 28, 2009

I Hate Plumbing

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

With apolo­gies to Cole Porter… I hate plumb­ing in the spring time, I hate plumb­ing in the fall, I hate plumb­ing in the win­ter, when it driz­zles, I hate plum­ing in the sum­mer, when it siz­zles. I hate plumb­ing every moment, Every moment of the year, I hate plumb­ing, Why, oh why, do I hate […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Feb 12, 2009

The Plumbing Nightmare Continues

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Finally heard back from the plumber’s part guy. They have to order direct from the man­u­fac­turer as none of their sup­pli­ers have the part. The bleepied-bleeping bleep man­u­fac­turer will not ship overnight. Expected tran­sit time of the part? 2–3 weeks Yes, that’s right. They said it will take weeks. I told him I’d have to get […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 21, 2009

Plumb Fun

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Thanks to the loverly weather we’ve been hav­ing in Iowa, our house is hav­ing some plumb­ing issues. The sub­zero tem­per­a­tures caused the sup­ply line pipes to our down­stairs tub to freeze, but for­tu­nately not burst. Unfor­tu­nately, when they thawed a bit it freed up some of the years of lime/calcium/crud in the pipes. The build-up […]

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Read more | Comments (4) | Jan 17, 2009