Friday/Saturday Project Status
Its hard to try to sum up 2 busy days in a few short paragraphs, but I’ll try.
Friday’s continued work on the drain has officially been labeled (by me) as a failure. I won’t take it to “Epic Fail” status, but for its close. After finding out that the Jetter’s problem was lack of oil, I brought it home for round 2.
I started working on the drain about 930p after getting C settled up at her mom’s house (sewer gasses + pregnant wife = bad situation)1. Things felt promising. The Jetter was fed as far as it needed to go, and went through quite easily. I reached the area that I think/thought was the blockage, and let it pound away at it. It never gave. So I fed the line back and forth several times. Each time, it felt like something good was happening. Then I’d hit that spot2. At some point, I glanced at the unit and saw something wonderful….
Black gold. Texas tea. I’d like to say, officially, that at that point, I shut the machine down and stopped working on the drain, to save the rented unit from complete failure, in accordance with my rental agreement. Though, there might be a chance that I ran it a little longer. After all, it was behind me. It could have run low on oil for a minute or 93. But the end result was that the drain never passed the test, while the jetter was still operational when returned the following morning. So we’ll call in the pros.
Saturday, the Mack and Zeke knocked out the popcorn and texture in the guest bedroom. Zeke will come back tomorrow to finish the painting that I don’t today.
Oz and M (of B.K. and M.K. fame3 came by to help with the painting. I heard, and have now seen, that M is a fantastic taper and “cutter-inner”. Oz did awesome too. So once again, age and wisdom overcame youth and skill4. We came up short on the paint we planned for the ceiling, so we started on the walls in the nursery. Things were going great when C came by to see how everything was going. She was impressed. She was particularly impressed with how well the yellow went on the east wall of the nursery. The wall that we agreed last week to paint green. We’ll just call that primer. 
So today, we’ll get the paint done in there… correctly…
We had plans in the afternoon, so we knocked off early, cleaned up, and brought “The Blue Car” out.
B.S.’s riding buddy D.L. led a ride with the other “wingers” yesterday in B.S.’s honor. As such, the ride ended by swinging by Oz’s house, saying hello to “The Blue Car”, and led us over to Lakeside Supper Club5 for dinner. A well needed and enjoyable evening ensued…
- super cute n cuddly aside here: we’ve been married nearly 2 years now, living in this house for 2.5. This was the first night she stayed at her mom’s house, separate from me. I just thought it was cool that we haven’t had a fight that required her (or I) staying elsewhere. [↩]
- It truly could be the “end of the line”. But without a line camera, I have no way of knowing 100%. [↩]
- I’ll find nicknames for them as well. Family friends [↩]
- Or, as dad has always said “Old age an treachery will overcome youth and skill”. I just didn’t want to call M or Oz “old”. [↩]
- the same joint that all other commercial dinners are judged by [↩]