I woke up to the annoying noise of the alarm clock on Wednesday morning. Unlike Monday, this time I got up and went to work...
It was only a high of 32 degrees F. today, but for the first time in a long time, the sun was out! Nice!
After my four hours, I went home and then out back to refill the bird feeder. Much to my disgust, I found the back faucet dripping, creating a huge ice sculpture (see photos). Crap! I wanted to sweep and wet mop the kitchen this afternoon! Now I got more plumbing crap to do!
The joys of home ownership are vastly over-rated!
So, I changed clothes, got my tools and went to find the problem. In order to get to that pipe, I have to disassemble my laundry room area, unscrew a wooden panel and then (and only then) can I check out that outside pipe.
What ticks me off is that in the almost 10 years I've lived here, that damn faucet has never caused me a problem in the cold. WTF?
(God hates me...)
Well, here's a big problem. The outside pipe screws into a soldered joint. And, I only have one pipe wrench. So if I try to unscrew it and buy a new one, I might break the soldered joint. It does have, however, a shut off valve, so I shut it off and will address it come springtime.
Now the back room is torn up, I didn't resolve the problem and its 3:00 PM. Erring on the side of caution, I decided to take a nap.
Regarding God hating me: in Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover says to Mel Gibson. "God hates me!" Mel Gibson answers "Hate Him back, it works for me!" That's sort of my philosophy.
(Just kidding God, if you are listening...)
So, now it's 7:00 PM and I'm hungry. I ate more of the Greek pasta salad for my lunch, BTW. So, I switched to a liverwurst sandwich with hot mustard for dinner. Screw that Mediterranean stuff, this is German food at its finest!
Nothing much was coming on TV, so I watched a movie on DVD: Stigmata. I fell asleep about 3/4 of the way through it. I woke up around 2:00 AM and the TV was all jacked up. I turned off the TV and the cable box for a bit, and then turned it all back on. It seemed to be working but had that text crap showing. I tried to figure out how to turn it off, and then just gave up and went back to bed.
I'll deal with it in the morning...
"The joys of home ownership are vastly over-rated!"
ReplyDeleteI have heard that the American dream, in order, is:
1) Owning your home.
2) Earning enough to keep it in good repair.
3) Working as little as possible so as to have time to make said repairs.
Thus far, you are doing a bang-up job on the first and last part.