botias | Plumbers need follow only two important rules: (Reply)

Egesta flows downhill
Don't bite your fingernails

I would maybe add a third: botias will always wish she hadn't bothered to call you. My poor tenants. Their sewage line became blocked, which perhaps led to them using a plunger with unnecessary and futile force, blowing out the seal on their toilet. Thus any activity with tub or toilet led to 'egesta' flowing out from under their toilet and flooding the bathroom. I called a plumber to clear the blockage. He charged me $110 to tell me that their sewer main is not sloped enough and for an unspecified number of hundreds more he would be happy to remedy this. This is a replay of a similar encounter with another plumber three years ago, except I'm learning. This was a much less expensive plumber. I turned down his kind offer. "It's going to be harder than you think," he warned. Pshaw. I live a life of freedom and leisure, but a person has to work hard to be this lazy. It was hard work. I had to fix the slope, find the blockage, clear it myself, and I still have a brimming bucketful of egesta under my house that I'm going to have to bury tomorrow in a deep hole, to be dug by moi. BUT, I am no longer intimidated by plumbing and am feeling EXTREMELY virtuous this evening, and if the plumber had even done what I did pay him to do, I'm not sure if that would all be true. So it's all good.

In more fun news, we all went on a cruise on a visiting tall-masted sailing ship, one of the ships that was in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I have to say it's pretty awesome when it plunges through the waves. They take on passengers to go as far as their next port, also. That would be fun (though exhausting) to do some year. Plus, grandma is taking the kids to Disneyland for a week in May. All we have to do is care for her flocks twice a day, and other than that the Mister and I are footloose and child-free. :P