23skidoo
Well-known member
It's been a rough couple of days in Casa Del Ventitres.
My house was built by an idiot man child - a fact we didn't realize until we'd live here a few years and things started needing fixing. I'm a real DIY kind of guy - would rather spend the money on tools and learn how to do it myself.... end up saving money in the long run and have the satisfaction that goes along with self-sufficiency. Outside of heavy duty electrical issues, I'll pretty much wade into anything.
And then the sewage ejector pump in our finished basement failed. Despite the fact that the main sewage line is gravity fed, the guy that built our house had everything - upstairs and down, all sinks, toilets, dishwasher, laundry - drain into a 150 gallon sump where it is then pumped up almost 10 feet to the sewage outlet. I caught it when a drain backed up and kept the mess to a minimum. To make a long story short, we've had a week of off-again on-again sewage ejection coupled with multiple trips from the plumber, the county water folks..... a nightmare. The highlight of this journey is me with a 16 gallon wet-vac emptying this 150 gallon pit three different times so my family could bathe, flush toilets, etc. and trying to figure out what to do with hundreds of gallons of raw sewage. We also had house guests during this interval. It's been a long week.
I learned a lot and saved a great deal of money by doing most of the work myself. But it was depressing - not only me and the multiple professionals involved not being able to figure it out, but the reality of having to deal with all of the material the pump wasn't dealing with.
My uke was my therapy. I've always played guitar - and it's still my primary instrument - but, tired and nasty, I would wash my hands and sit on the porch with my uke. It's so easy and happy. I'm rediscovering songs I've known for years - and discovering new ones, things I would never play on guitar. It's just great - and this forum is part of that, too.
I'm glad I got it and glad I found this forum.
My house was built by an idiot man child - a fact we didn't realize until we'd live here a few years and things started needing fixing. I'm a real DIY kind of guy - would rather spend the money on tools and learn how to do it myself.... end up saving money in the long run and have the satisfaction that goes along with self-sufficiency. Outside of heavy duty electrical issues, I'll pretty much wade into anything.
And then the sewage ejector pump in our finished basement failed. Despite the fact that the main sewage line is gravity fed, the guy that built our house had everything - upstairs and down, all sinks, toilets, dishwasher, laundry - drain into a 150 gallon sump where it is then pumped up almost 10 feet to the sewage outlet. I caught it when a drain backed up and kept the mess to a minimum. To make a long story short, we've had a week of off-again on-again sewage ejection coupled with multiple trips from the plumber, the county water folks..... a nightmare. The highlight of this journey is me with a 16 gallon wet-vac emptying this 150 gallon pit three different times so my family could bathe, flush toilets, etc. and trying to figure out what to do with hundreds of gallons of raw sewage. We also had house guests during this interval. It's been a long week.
I learned a lot and saved a great deal of money by doing most of the work myself. But it was depressing - not only me and the multiple professionals involved not being able to figure it out, but the reality of having to deal with all of the material the pump wasn't dealing with.
My uke was my therapy. I've always played guitar - and it's still my primary instrument - but, tired and nasty, I would wash my hands and sit on the porch with my uke. It's so easy and happy. I'm rediscovering songs I've known for years - and discovering new ones, things I would never play on guitar. It's just great - and this forum is part of that, too.
I'm glad I got it and glad I found this forum.