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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
New verse:
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Keep warm and stay dry please. The last time you were sick it took weeks to get rid of it. Yikes!
Hate to post and run, but I'm gonna turn in early tonight.
See you tomorrow, Ramius!
Nite nite... :-)
Evening Rosie - sounds like they're good people, you gave the dogs a good home and it sounds like the new owners will too. A significant step on the new road you've chosen.
Evening Corin - true enough on all counts, I would say.
Evening g'nad - somehow I figured you for a red dot kind of guy.
So...when the kitchen sink is clogged and a whole bottle of Liquid Plumber hasn't helped...is it time to call someone?
(gots other ideas?)
ecurbh's honey knew the Final Jeopardy answer that ecurbh ~didn't~
Q (something like): This Russian-born scientist and auther said "I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them".
A: white font >>> Isaac Asimov
Evening Gentlemen - regarding binoculars, any of them more user friendly to eye glass wearers than the others? I got a nice pair for my cruiser vest pocket but requires spectacle removal for proper viewing.
I'd like to be able to just take a look through the binoculars then be able to see to write down the observations without resorting to the five move shuffle with the specs.
If it's PVC, Take the trap off and clean it out... If it's not PVC, take the trap off and buy a new PVC trap tomorrow ;~D
I had bad luck with liquid plumber.... ate right through the pipe at the beach house, the plug was unaffected. ;~D
The groovy thing I like about my Leupold is that somehow the reticle is white against dark backgrounds and black against light backgrounds. Fun with optics, that.
Got a garbage disposal? Is it functioning? Might have a clog in there...
A short snake cable might do it if it is in the s curve. Got a cleanout reasonablely accesible?
Explosives?
Sure, fun for you, the red dot on the chest and then quizical look on subject is lots of fun for both, the giver and the recipent. :-)
I picked up a little auger from home depot to clear out those clogs in toilets, etc.
Actually... that's one of the reasons these Minoltas I've been talking about are so good. The eyepiece glass is way oversized, and the eyerelief cups have a quick-screw qizmo that makes them really quick to adjust. When the eye relief is down they're just perfect for glasses. Way better than the ordinary rubber cups that most binos have.
They're also waterproof and fogproof. But... they're big compared to the vest-pocket unit you're talking about.
The model I've got is called the "Aptiva".
Have we forgotten that Corin doesn't ~do~ plumbing?
I don't trust myself to start taking off pipes. Would Wal-Mart sell a plumber's snake?
If the pipes are PVC, the traps are really easy to take off and put back on and you wouldn't have to call someone... If the problem is in the trap, that is.... if it's further down, at least you've got it all ready for the plumber.
Wall Mart might sell snakes... if you just want to push the clog to the next intersection ;~D
I definitely remind him. He served outside of Fallujah for about 8 mos. Was in Afghanistan during their elections this past fall. Can't do enough for them.
Of course, he worries about my spending too much to support them. Funny guy. Found out today that he is one of the lucky ones to have their pay messed up. They are withholding pay on him now. He won't even get enough to pay his car insurance next paycheck. Figure the military can find a better way to deal with it than to withhold all of their pay to make it up.
I've seen plumber's snakes at Walmart...they were those short ones.
Brought my 6 foot snake back on the last trip.
If there's not a disposer in that sink, using a plunger might help.
Ack! Well... the military is still about the worlds most perfect bureaucracy... they can mess up paperwork just as well as any, with all of the finest professionalism that we come of expect of great bureaucracies.
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