Just Two Things
- Happy almost-belated birthday to the estimable
beamjockey; I hope your day was great! - I hate Microsoft Outlook. That is all.
- OK, three things: did you know that the art of fixing a water main is actually pretty darned interesting? No, you did not. But I know, because I learned about it today. And took pictures of a broken water main being repaired. I even got hit in the head by a small bit of rock that was being blown out of the hole by a huge water sucking vacuum. Physics, baby ....
- OK four things. Dreamwidth isn't letting me make bullet points tonight. Argh. EDIT: now it is. Yay.
- And four: my mouth hurts, Bert!
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I hope your mouth feels better!
Sadly, my mouth is no better. It will eventually recover. Until then, I'm resigned to sounding like a drunk.
(Winnipeg has been the land of broken water mains some winters).
That wouldn't surprise me in the least, since broken water mains and winter go together almost completely.
The wooden sewer lines were well over 50 years old at the time. They were basically planks fitted together to form pipes and bound with galvanized iron sitting deep in the heavy clay. The wood, surprisingly, was fine but the hoops had started rusting out. We dug out the lines, scraped the mud off, fitted them with new hoops then encased the section we had uncovered with concrete. This was only done in places where the lines had started to leak.
Huh. Sounds cool. Except for the physics lesson. Less cool, that.
*hugs you close*
Hope you feel better soon, bb.
Dear god, I hope I feel better soon, too. *grumble*
did you know that the art of fixing a water main is actually pretty darned interesting?
Given sufficient attention, anything is interesting.
And that, my friends, is the essence of most reporting, and all feature writing.
Urgh. Wow. Good luck with everything! ♥♥♥