Too Much And Too Little Me @rantsandreblogs - Tumblr Blog

Hello! Welcome to my side blog. Home to “whatever” doesn’t fit, or simply would clutter up, my main blog. It only took about ten years for me to get around to making it.

I don’t have any idea what will end up here, but it won’t be my photos or sculpting. If you were looking for that you better head back to @brokenmusicboxwolfe !

#intro #welcome #my day

haveyouseenthismovie-poll

Have you seen Caravaggio (1986)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

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haveyouseenthismovie-poll

Have you seen Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 5 days 5 hours

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Good news. I finally dug up the source of the sewer line problem.

Bad news. I finally dug up the source of the sewer line problem.

See, I found the disintegrated bit of pipe that needs replacing, but there are soooo many things I have to do to fix it.

It isn’t just digging up a lot more of the rock hard, root, brick, old taro, and other debris filled ground while managing to avoid damaging the stupid power cord lying over it. And it isn’t figuring out how to replace that stretch of pipe and buying things to do it. It’s the fact I’ll need to avoid using the sewer line while I do the repair.

I had hoped to fix, at least in a half assed way, the toilet at the other house. I thought I could just fasted in the new bit of sewer pipe to the old cast iron pipe well enough to have a seal, pop on the “new” toilet (bought by Mom when the old one broke, but then stuck waiting when the old toilet proved a nightmare to remove), and hook up just that bit of water. None of the other fixtures would be working, but I’d have a useable toilet while I do repairs.**

Unfortunately I ran into problems. The old toilet had been there since the bathroom was added to the, until then, indoor plumbing-less house. So, there is no flange thing at floor lever. It was just a pipe sticking up through a rough hole cut in the floor. No flange, no bolts, no way to fasten on the wax seal…no way to fasten on the toilet….

Oh, and oh joy. ALL the hardware for the toilet assembly are missing. All the screws, all the nuts, all the seals…And a good few are highly specialized. I’ve got a toilet in pieces I can’t instal until I either figure out stuff I can use instead OR buy replacements.

And…..it turns out the floor was a bit rotted around the toilet and breaking the rusted in old pipe off I tore out a bit of floorboard I’ll need to fasten in that hypothetical flange and toilet. I’ll need to patch that up first.

It is soooo….

I can’t just fix anything! I have to battle through doing everything the damn hard way. When it isn’t the very hard way.

If I had money. If I had help. If…

Never mind. Life is the way it is.

So, if I can just figure out how to fix the toilet, afford the things I need, manage the complications of doing all this***, and end up with the toilet temporarily***** usable, I get to reward myself by….working on the sewer line.

Meanwhile, my uncovering the crumbly bit of pipe has the sewer water seeping into the dug up hole. There is now a nice, icky puddle and, before it gets much deeper, I need to figure out how to protect those damn power cables from ending up submerged in raw sewage!

UGH! Why does everything have to be so overwhelming to deal with? It’s not like this is the only things I “have to work on immediately”!

**When I repair the water line I’ll have to have more than that fixed at the other house. For now, this works because the animals and I will still have water, and the weather is warm enough I can use the camping shower at the other house by just hauling water.

***Ex. The bathroom was either converted from a closet, or when they took part of the hall end to make the bathroom they decided to make it the size of a small closet. There is about an inch or so of space three sides of the toilet when in place, and anyone tall would have their knees against the wall in front. You sort have to angle to get to the toilet around the “wall” of the tub/shower. Basically, it’s a window and ventilation free space that most people would find impossible to maneuver in. Just moving the dang toilet into place is gonna be super hard.

***** With no way to heat the house, I’ll have to shut off any water when winter arrives….or risk having another toilet break in half from freezing!

#my day #home repair #plumbing repair #sewer repair #I do almost envy people that have apartments or rent where they can moan to a landloard #But not enough to want to give up the freedom of having a place where you can do what you want #I dunno how people stand rules about their homes #I could paint my home purple and build a life size dragon in the front yard #if you know I had the money and energy to do that! LOL

kalelsonofkrypton

Wonder Woman #8, Spring 1943, cover by Harry G. Peter.

#hg peter #h.g. peter #h.g peter #diana prince #diana of themyscira #wonder woman

doyoulikethissong-poll

Do you like this song? #827

Yes I like it, I already know it

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I already know it

No I don't like it, first time listening

Remaining time: 4 days 20 hours

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