We are in the middle of renovating the basement bathroom.
One, concern we had had was that the drain line that the shower used is sluggish. And lately, if the dishwasher and the washer are draining at the same time, it would almost or actually overflow.
So, plumber time.
Short version: drain line to the street is sagging filled with tree roots. $7000 and I lose my favorite blue spruce.
I’ve never done that
I’ve done it once—surprisingly easy. You can start a new topic from the bbs home page.
Or—in the words of @orenwolf from his meta post Change to inactive topic expiry—
…in the event there was some old topic you wanted to continue, simply start a new topic from the last comment of the closed thread.
My own advice, from experience: Taking care to narrow the topic, and being clear as you can about what you’re inviting people to discuss in the thread, leads to better discussion 
As long as they have the backhoe out there, couldn’t they relocate the spruce?
Too big and too costly. I like the tree but 7K is enough of a wallet beater.
So guess who gets to have another DVT related surgery. I had three at the start of last month. Now the stent they put in is being compressed. all because of May-Thurners syndrome. Look it up, it’s lots of fun.
Today is OK.
Saturday could fuck right off.
My dad had a heart attack. And as I was trying to get down there, I had to go pick up my meds and went when the whole Pharmacy team was out to lunch, and then they didn’t have it ready, even though I dropped it off like 6 days before.
Anyway, hes doing fine. Came home Monday. Hes in great shape for his age and before this was on one pill. He cholesterol is fine, but he got a blood clot in the “widow maker” artery. When you get old shit like this just happens some times and you can’t really prevent it. But they got him in quick put in a stent, and there doesn’t appear to be any damage or after affects. So while I don’t recommend having one, if you are going to have one, what happened was the best case scenario.
Because fining homeless people with no money is the most effective way of stopping people being homeless.
/sarcasm
I’m sorry that you had to through all this, but I’m so glad that your dad is doing well.
I know there are a lot of other big problems in the world. I know that I probably shouldn’t be drinking it in the first place. But fuck this.
Welp, I guess I need to go and stock up for the better half.
Whats worse than having an AC that does a half ass job, bleeding you dry because it has to run all the time?
Having an AC that doesn’t work.
Welp - guess I’ll have to strip to my undies and put the fan on high.
Kiddo was in the other room while I was filling out a maintenance ticket singing her own version of “You say he’s just a friend” into the fan. How does she even know that song?
I mean, the rest of the post is a fuck today, but this clearly belongs in the victories thread!
It certainly made the situation more bearable. 
Fuck yesterday, tonight, big parts of today, and my future life.
Family came for a visit. In-laws, children and all. The stress making everything work alone was hard enough, but I was confronted late to in the evening with a “I wanted to talk to you about that thing you said months ago” (which I didn’t even say back then, and wouldn’t have done ever). Which escalated quickly to a crying “I have the feeling that you don’t want us in your life, and fear that you don’t tell us everything, and I just want to live with my children and grandchildren”, and more just stopping so very short of an accusation that we are making life an unhappy an miserable journey for them.
Which made my partner crack, later that night, and cry about their parents.
Which made sibling-in-law ask what’s wrong.
Which lead to even more pain and handwringing, while trying not to break down further.
Which overshadowed everything following, of course, and will continue to be a burden which can’t be shrugged off at any point in their miserable relationship, because parents are unable to change themselves at their old age and the emotional labour we would have to put into that would be so intense and massive it could kill.
I don’t know how to help my partner. We’ve got a hat full of stuff weighing us down, for example that we don’t know where we will live a year from now, and what we are going to do. How can we also carry the load of our parents and in-laws, FFS? We haven’t got sorted our own lives. The very last thing we need now is people dragging us down with their own issues, not far from emotional blackmailing.
I’m going to regret shouting Fuck Today into an online forum, but this is decidedly something I can’t speak to anyone about without having a breakdown myself. So, Fuck TODAY and the rest of my life.
My kid told me that her mom bought her a training bra.
WTF?
I know this isn’t a “bad” thing, but it still seems too soon. She was just a baby the other day.
“I swear I had a baby around here somewhere.”
They grow up too fast!
