when this cold snap first hit my furnace was turning the burners every 5 minutes it seemed, after the insulation was added.........it goes on evry hour or so....much better.
I had a lot of stuff to do with this house , and the temps weren't an issue in past years....'cept for this god forsaken season...........Stuff makes me think I was a serial killer in another life, I must a been a good one, cuz I'm paying for it now,lol.

 

I moved here in '13 from the Chicago suburbs. Y'all know what kind of winter they're having.

Glad I'm here! Mid-50's all week!

 

No sweat on the battery post Clay. We used to rebuild them all the time on heavy equipment. Clean it up good, run a screw into the stump, form a mold around it and pour it full of molten lead.....Be just as good as new.
Ya gotta keep those connections clean and tight though....ya got a lot more there than a 12Volt car battery!!!

 

Oh yeah....Real close friend of mine was the Fire Chief in Arlington Heights till he retired a couple years ago.

 

huh,??

 

Six, 6 volt batteries. The repair guy said when you're climbing a hill the motor's pulling 300 amps.

Yowza!

 

I figure the straight pipe will be ok. Baths must drain down stream of the p-trap for the basement floor drain, 'cause no problem with them draining. From the pipe that's visible, looks like the kitchen joins upstream of the floor drain, so a floor drain problem messes up the kitchen, too. Won't worry too much if I dig and don't find the bath junction downstream, but if I do see it, might as well do the whole mess pvc. Probably going to take a while, but I have a little time pressure - the clothes washer dumps into the kitchen drain pipe... might have to buy some more socks.

 

Site keeps hanging up trying to get the next page - turned off Zone Alarm firewall and it's almost instant refresh. Turned the firewall back on and it's working ok again. Done it before, but only on this website. Wonder why ZA chokes on it sometimes?

 

Depending where he's coming from in Florida, KR's got over 800 miles minimum, possible 1000+ if down in the southern part. Be a long day's drive, wondering if he's gonna get back tonite. Wait and see, I guess. Farthest I ever drove alone non-stop was 1100 miles, and I was a third the age then I am now. Never got over 110 either... well, 'cept for some short bursts mebbe.

 

I Wouldn't look for KR before tomorrow. I would believe he will stop over for the night. Foolish if he doesn't.
Well...I'm done for the night. Kidz don't have skool tomorrow so....prawly sleep in till mebby 6 or so....never can sleep much beyond that, an most cases don't make it that long. Cold as it is, I don't care much about gettin outta that warm bed.
C-y'all tomorrow.