I find myself somewhat under-enamored with the pg# choices available – I guess this one was about the best…

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I think we been gettin' spoiled with the low numbers n' things are gonna start to dry up pretty soon

there is a plumbing prob

the bypass ain't doin' the j*b

the sunken patio drains into the sewage system which ain't been legal for a while

it was initially grandfathered in so we didn't have to deal with it right away, but we were eventually supposed to bring it up to code n' turns out we never got around to doing that

periodically over the years the drain in the back would clog n' we'd have to have it snaked out; last year it proved clogged beyond the capacity of the plumbers to clear it …so every time we'd get over a half-inch of rain, the patio would flood …weighing the thousands of dollars against alternatives, I bought a little sump pump for a hundred bucks or so n' have been pumping the rainwater out when necessary …seemed like a good idea at the time…

a coupla weeks ago, we got raw sewage bubblin' up out of the drain in the laundry room floor when we ran the dishwasher …solution: wash the dishes by hand…

now, after yesterday's heavy rains, we not only got a flooded patio but also a wet spot on the laundry floor, so obviously this is snowballin' beyond any simple tricks to get around it n' it's lookin' like we're gonna hafta get the situation resolved

this will undoubtedly prove expensive

bad enough, but there's also all kinds o' boxes o' junk stashed in the laundry; at least some of those have gotten wet n' will hafta be trashed, n' the rest will need to be moved (someplace) so the plumber will have room to w*rk

all of which means I got a lot to do that I don't feel at all like doing, n' this will not  result in any renumeration but in fact quite the opposite

I'm not a happy boy…

..I don't have a great deal of hope but I got my fingers crossed…

I got no ideas for a millstone pic though n' that complicates things

if I continue to procrastinate by padding posts, I'll have to find an answer to that  with some immediacy

solitaire is looking more n' more attractive…

…the one we got ain't whatchacall overly adequate…

 DGB said:

… not a whole lot going on this evening, other than me avoiding some w*rk that I should be doing…

…that rings a bell…

I notice at the bottom of the pg that there are 1967 posts overall in the forums

we come in with a little shy of 45% in this thread alone

awfully tempting to try n' get it over 50…

not much, I suppose, as accomplishments go, but sumthin'…