I’m sitting in my office looking from one of Aunt Mirl’s paintings to the other. On my left is a long road parting a forest. The road continues into a bright light that might be sunset or sunrise. On my right is a cabin surrounded by snow. The sky is gray and I know it is a cold day. But the yellow light in the window tells me a fire is going in the fireplace and maybe there’s a pot of soup hanging from the spit.
The Tigers are in third place. There’s not enough games left in the season for them to get ahead of the Indians, but they could steal second place from the Twins.
Meanwhile, in Houston, Justin Verlander’s team is in first place.
Shipt.com was selling pork chops for $1.79 a pound, and I bought 15 pounds. Totally worth it. I ain’t a master chef or nothin’, but I really like how my pork chops come out. My brother’s supposed to come over tomorrow and I’m going to make pork chops.
And… we’re off to see the Wizard
The wonderful Wizard of Oz
We hear he is a whiz of a wiz…
If ever a wiz there was
If ever, oh ever a wiz there was
The Wizard of Oz is one
(Roseanne Barr screech) Because, because, because, because, because….
I had to check the date on my tattoo. Now I know why I’m seeing posts about grandma on Facebook today. She died on this day in 2012.. I’m not good at keeping dates memorized, but I find myself remembering Grandma every day.
Given how many unarmed people are killed by police, I can’t believe you would say “Kaepernick is crying wolf.” I’m not saying the police are all bad, but they’re human like the rest of us and they have fuck ups. Colin Kaepernick wants something done about it. Why in the hell is that so offensive to people?
Glen Coffee and Colin Kaepernick are two completely different circumstances and there is no comparison here. It’s ridiculous comparing Kaepernick to veterans.
I wonder how Coffee feels about people using him to discredit Kaepernick. We don’t know which side of this controversy he’s on, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s in agreement with Kaepernick, as many, many veterans are.
NFL kicks off tonight with the Falcons and the Eagles.
Got to wait till Monday night for the Lions.
On the kitchen sink. It’s been badly clogged. Barely drains. I know where the clogging is not. The clogging is not in the pipe under the broom closet floor, because if it was, the bathtub would have problems draining too and it doesn’t.
My auger has a 25-foot snake, and that’s plenty long enough for all the drain systems in my house.
I can get the snake down this pipe under the sink.
And along this pipe in the basement.
But that’s as far as it will go. It will not turn at that point that goes through the wall. I think it’s because the turn is too sharp. I think we’ll have to cut the pipe just after that turn, and start the snake there.
That goes under the bathroom floor. The blockage would be somewhere between this turn and where the pipe meets the sewer line under the broom closet floor. It’s only about eight feet of pipe from this point to the closet.
…and I’m trying to clear a blockage in the drain pipe for my kitchen sink. I got about fifteen feet in and around two turns, but then I couldn’t get it to turn again. If I’m understanding this video right (I cannot hear what he’s saying.): when I come to a turn in the pipes, I need to tighten the screw at the front of the canister before I start turning the wheel and that should get the snake turned in the right direction.
So, I guess I’ll try again tomorrow.