Misc

Coffee Table on the Curb

I’m doing some deep cleaning today. I cleaned off this coffee table. But then I thought, “Do I really need this table anymore?” It had been against the wall for a couple years now, since I got a much bigger coffee table (you can see it in my latest beer picture.) Pretty much all the old table was good for was storing board games and taking up space.

I decided to put the board games somewhere else and get the table out of here. So, now it sits on the curb. It’s a beautiful table, but there are some cracks and scratches on it. Also one of the doors on the side is missing.

Maybe someone passing through the neighborhood will want it. If not, Rick Rhein will eat it on Wednesday.

Misc

Chicken & Bacon

My dad brought me the Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt from Subway. I usually prefer beef over chicken, but I discovered about two or three sandwiches ago that the Chicken & Bacon is the most fattening sandwich you can get from Subway, calorie-wise, and therefore the most fulfilling. When I’m real hungry, I go for the Chicken & Bacon.
Misc

Paintings

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.

Misc

This looks to be the situation

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.