You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish!

So, first thing this morning, I tested the drain in the kitchen. Still stopped up! Damn!!

So, I let it drain while I got ready for work. The last thing I did before leaving the house was to mix and pour in another batch of the bacterial stuff (figuring that the time I am gone to work would be equivalent to overnight). Plan is to try the snake again tonight and then see if I've accomplished ANYTHING.

Today, I spent several hours on hold and talking with various people (my health insurance company, my doctor, the lab I had the blood work done at, the hospital they are affiliated with, the hospital's billing department, their medical records department, and their patient accounting department) to try and resolve a mix-up. I think (and I only "think" at this point, I am not sure) I got it fixed and the insurance company will pay the $382.00 for the blood work I had done back in January. Geesh! What a pain in the butt!

When I got home, I changed clothes and immediately put a pan of water on to boil. I was short on enough of either kind of pasta, so I used both, rotini and medium shells, to make enough for a big bowl of tuna salad for the weekend. When that was in the colander, rinsed and in the fridge to cool, I started in on the sink.

Still no luck with the snake, or the crud eating microbes. Snake is definitely hitting some sort of elbow or "T" in the line and NOT getting to the clog. And the bacteria? Well, going green just didn't do it! So, to hell with the tree huggers, I'm buying the nasty acid stuff Friday morning!

You can check the March archives, (March 8) for the tuna salad recipe, if you like. But, I had a bunch of green onions that weren't looking so good, so I substituted them (sliced fine) for the peas. After chopping the celery and mixing everything up, I taste-tested it for seasoning. Hmmm... I think I like the peas better! Back in the fridge it went to get cold.

I cleaned up the cooking mess and went to read my book on the couch. After an hour or so, I fixed a bowl of the tuna salad and went and watched a taped movie. Since I have tomorrow off, I stayed up and watched the news at 11:00 before going to sleep. We are supposed to get 2-3 inches of snow tomorrow afternoon... sigh...