Welp, the Baggage Boys swept and the Fightin Brownlees took 2 but I didnt die

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Great despite nearly falling into pit of DIY hell.

Mar 25, 2024, 8:49 AM

Friday picked up son-of's car from mechanic and paid basically what car is worth on pretty much one of everything. Made appt for tires and alignment for this morning because I hadn't shat away enough money yet. Then got busy at work when I was trying to watch hoops game, but saw enough to enjoy the win.

Saturday AM tackled washing machine problem I posted about here. Did not get it fixed but I *think* the pump is shot, so ordering a replacement. I'm not replacing the whole electronics board so this is last hope for the washer.

Frustrated with incomplete washer job I decided to knock out a couple super-simple plumbing chores - replace flapper in one terlit and filler valve in another. This is where it all went wrong. When I turned off water supply to replace the flapper, I noticed the old valve dripped some. Replaced flapper and went to turn water back on, it dripped A LOT. And I fiddled with it hoping to find magic place where it wouldn't drip but alas it only got worse and would only stop in fully off position. Did I mention wife is having colonoscopy Tuesday? So non-working terlit is a no go. I'm going to have to shut off all water to house at the street, drain everything, cut old crusty valve off and replace. By now it is Saturday evening. I go ahead and replace filler valve in other terlit without too much drama. Read up on Clemson baseball's grand day over noles, good stuff.

Sunday I go to Ace for supplies, shut off water, drain system without too much trouble, cut pipe, one more trip to Ace because doing it in one trip is impossible, then get everything connected, water back on, no leaks, clean up. Phew.

I'm tired of this all-day DIY crap so go for nice walk Sunday afternoon at Connestee. Another noles-crushing win for baseball. Then come home and shower, watch fightin Bradholes beat Baylor, life is good.

TLDR - replacing terlit flapper turns into major plumbing project. Survived.

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Which is something I haven't done for at least 87 days, which is how long its been since I had a beer.

I've been traveling steady for the last 3 weeks--leave on Mon, come back on Friday night or Saturday, and working 12-18 hours a day during the week. On Saturday after my plane was delayed twice for 4 hours (and I got to the airport 3 hours early so I could be on a call), I was in Tampa airport for almost 8 hours. I decided that was as good a day and reason as any to go ahead and break my sobriety.

I had a few drinks last night as well, as the guitar player for Hans and the 86ers was in town and they had an awesome show at the Southern.

Once again, for about the 20th time in my life, not drinking didn't offer me any life changing retrospectives, nor did I ever feel so great that I wanted to tell everyone about it. I didn't drop an ounce of weight.

I originally stopped drinking because I was having a random pain in my right side that I thought was my liver, but since it was still occurring up to as late as 2 weeks ago, I knew either the damage was already done, or it was something else. Through diet trial and error, I've narrowed it down to the cause as chocolate, or too much sugary foods. That's much harder to break than stopping drinking was.

Looking back over the last 88 days, I did probably sleep a little better, but it was cold and rainy for most of that time, so that might have happened any way. I never even saw any noticeable increase in my bank account, but certainly there has to be if from nothing but the lack of uber trips.

Once again, I conclude that I probably don't drink enough that it really matters.

Oh yeah, the weekend was really a weekend day, so here I am again.

Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

Sweet

Sumthin, sumthin

Outdoorsy

hashtag CreekDoods***

Wow, you do the creek monitoring training?

Wow

I'll check.***

Horsey

Carolina Cup?***

Aiken Steeplechase

Its the classier of the two.

No sex in the porta johns?***

just hand jobs

Well, I got my last piece of info to complete my tax return

I'll send you some. They are far from fine furniture.

Wrapped up my taxes too

That's still an April 12/13 start date for me.

Good!...

Thank you for the gymnastics update. I hadn't seen that on the

Good good

Very nice weekend.

Oldest turned 13 and she had a sleepover at my house with friends

March Madnessy. Awesome Clemson baseball. Sweet 16 for chef's kiss***

Still drunk

Great despite nearly falling into pit of DIY hell.

Re: Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

I had major FOMO with those shows in St. Augustine. We went last 2 years

no leather shoes

Goot, drank a little too much, but great win for Brad and the guys***

Clempson sports saved it for me.

celebrate-y

Re: Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

Just had a tom strutting with a hen 30 yds from the house

Yee yee***

Nice and Winey!

I got drunk.

That pain in the side is what finally led us to discover that the Mrs. had

I will remember that.***

Re: Good morning everyone how was your weekend?

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