Little Dog Syndrome

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Month: February, 2006

Thar she blows!

Oh the fun never stops. I learned a valuable lesson today. Not really a big surprise of a lesson, but a definite confirmation. I’m not a plumber. Granted, my lack of ability to deal with other people’s shit for years now should have clued me in. Fixing the toilet today proved it beyond a doubt.
Noticed [...]

Water Under The Bridge (Okay, the Front Yard)

Woke up this morning to the sound of city trucks in my front yard. Apparently the neighbor’s driveway was filled with water, and it seems that it was because my line had broken. The same one that the excavators had busted while digging the other week for my sewer pipe. The city figured the ground [...]

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That crap’s taken care of

The sewage pipe is now fixed. (We think.) I wasn’t actually here when they patched it, so I’m assuming “it’s all good”. The way the two main guys were while here doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. A couple others that were here briefly did much better, especially the boss man… but unfortunately he wasn’t always here [...]

All Hole’s Breaking Loose

Okay, that’s not that funny. But neither is the huge hole that spent most of the afternoon in my front yard today. We had the sewer repair dudes out because of a collapsed pipe, and they can’t find the dang pipe! They removed a tree, chewed up a part of our driveway, and dug up [...]

Things you find

One of the things I love most about the web is finding things by accident. Especially when it’s a musician or band that I would otherwise have had no chance of ever having heard about. In the last week I found both Mary Bonhag and Family Groove Company – very different musical efforts, but both [...]