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Title: Our pipes are frozen this morning...no water
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Published: Jan 8, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-01-08 11:27:56 by christine
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it's cloudy with no sun to warm us up. the high predicted today is 35. currently it's 26 degrees (feels like 17). could be hours before the pipes unfreeze. i'm going nuts already.

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Jethro Tull  posted on  2010-01-08   21:57:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

i got in the shower and said out loud, ah, glorious water. ;)

it's a wonder humanity survived all those hundreds of thousands of years without hot showers.

if i happened to live long enough, i guess that's what i'd miss most about our glorious modern world... that's what i think about when i'm in the shower if there's nothing else to think about.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:09:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

it would be a good thing to offer up a little prayer to the god of hot showers once in a while: "thank you, god, and please preserve us and our cleanliness. keep us clean the easy, pleasurable way."

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:31:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

it would be a good thing to offer up a little prayer to the god of hot showers once in a while

I express my gratitude for hot showers to God most mornings -- even in the summer.

A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're not talking real money

DeaconBenjamin  posted on  2010-01-08   22:37:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Ha! Finally someone who understands plumbing.

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   22:38:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I express my gratitude for hot showers to God most mornings -- even in the summer.

gratitude is next to godliness, which is next to cleanliness.

what a wonderful world.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:46:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Ha! Finally someone who understands plumbing.

plumbing is next to cleanliness, which is next to godliness, which is ne

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   22:54:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Keep a space heater by the pipes to prevent them from freezing up or else you won't be able to flush your toilet either. Also, keep a space heater in your bathroom and have it running at around 60 degrees just enough to keep it warm in there so that the pipes in the bathroom don't freeze up.

What is handy is having a stock of clean milk cartons filled with water and kept in the house near fireplace for bathing purposes and drinking. Label them so you know what carton is for. I'd keep about 30 around. You never know about freezing temps like these.

Also when its icy outside from below zero temps and you have ice on your power lines, most likely that will cause power outages. It's best to have lots of candles and batteries for flashlights when power goes out.

purplerose  posted on  2010-01-08   23:00:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

something's puzzling me, has puzzled me for a long time...

all those people in SE asia, who didnt have hot showers and shit in the ocean, and wore dazzling white shirts.

we have to assume they didnt have a god of hot showers, or a god of flush toilets, or a god of whirlpool washers and dryers, but they seemed to be clean, anyhow.

is that why we killed millions of them?

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   23:04:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

They always used to say that they were godless commies, so the white shirt thing is quite the paradox.

I'm pretty sure though that we had to kill them because they were going to invade Texas. Yes, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. My country, right or wrong and all that.

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   23:19:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

They always used to say that they were godless commies, so the white shirt thing is quite the paradox.

the logic being: if they were godless, and cleanliness is next to godliness, then white shirts would be impossible.

makes sense to me.

maybe there's something else at work here... the threat to texas makes as much sense as

none of it makes sense, unless you're a looter.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   23:24:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Trying to figure this out is making me dizzy. I like it.

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   23:27:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

As a recommendation: pipe in Washington DC political squabbles. The hot-aire can help defrost just about anything.

“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.�

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-08   23:32:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

The last few years I think the plumbers were taking time to get to people here also. One year even a few businesses and schools had pipes break. When they have that many at once it can take a while even when there are a bunch of plumbers. This year has been a pretty mild winter here.

Well hopefully after time we have learned enough to avoid it!! I know there are no guarantees though.

MiracleRose7  posted on  2010-01-08   23:42:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Trying to figure this out is making me dizzy. I like it.

my working hypothesis for figuring it out is this:

the people who were paying attention knew, by the sixties, that america was pretty much fucked, mostly because america wasnt finding enough oil, and and would become dependent on foreign oil.

american oil production peaked in 1970, in the middle of the vietnamese war, confirming looters' suspicions that america was doomed.

the only thing left to do was loot.

meanwhile, the israel lobby assassinates kennedy, sending a message to US politicians that "you'd best get with the program."

the program being: preserve israel at any cost.

the program was eventually refined by the AEI, which figured that the only thing left to do was grab the remaining oil at gunpoint... supposedly.

the problem being: it's likely that the "war on terror" is nothing more than cover for looting america as it expires.

the basic premise being: most of the big dogs have written israel off, and all they care about is looting enough to buy refuge wherever.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-08   23:49:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

You mean to say My Milf Palin ain't gonna save us from them-there eeeevil Muzzies & Chinks that is destroying this country and hates my freeeedums?????

OH MY GAWD, SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!! Pass the cyanide Kool-aid, I cain't takes no more.

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   23:56:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

the dismal performance of the israelis seems to confirm the theory.

the routine atrocities israel performs dont seem to be consistent with efforts to preserve israel, and so we have to assume that the deterioration in israel is a symptom of israeli leadership being looters themselves.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   0:03:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a3DZsO36cA

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   0:15:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

in the Philippines every house I lived in had an elevated water tank of around 400 gallons and an inline water heater that plumbed between the shower water pipe an the shower head. as for cleaning the clothes we had Mr. Clean, Tide among other bars of soap used to do the wash by hand in a big pan. I would use a bar of Mr. Clean to wash out cuts the stuff was great for avoiding infection.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   0:53:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

apparently we've succeded in turning filipinos into consumers.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:04:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

we'd move off the carrier into the BOQ at subic, drink all night, wake up at 11, eat hot dogs around the pool until it was time to go into town.

there was a curfew but this middle-aged lady flagged me down after curfew, and i spent the rest of the night with her, despite the fact that i was broke.

in the morning, as i was going through the gate, i was fishing in my pockets for my ID and discovered the filipino equivalent of a $5 bill.

lord knows what that was about.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:14:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

actually Spain did we just made them use English in their legal system.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   1:15:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

depending when that was a 5 peso note could have been worth close to 1 dollar U.S. or a thin dime. when I first got there in the early eighties the exchange rate was 7 pesos 50 centavos to the dollar when I left about ten years later the exchange rate was near 50 pesos to the dollar.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   1:21:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

it could be i was so fucked up that i missed that five dollar bill.

given the attitude of the lady, though, and my habitual money tracking ability, it still seems likely to me that she stuffed a five-dollar bill into by shirt while i was asleep.

but maybe i'm just trying to

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:25:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I sent out a kid with five bucks U.S. for some smoke, he came back with a half kilo of buds and 50 pesos change. that was early '82 and the exchange rate was still under 10 pesos to the dollar.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   1:28:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

happy days

and they wonder why kids go to war, huh?

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:30:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

a girl picked me up in seattle, took me home with her, introduced me to crosby stills and nash, most especially "judy blue eyes".

a neophyte, stoned to the gills.

i told her that if young men didnt enjoy war, there wouldnt be wars. she was outraged.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:33:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

even when they had the travel restrictions in the late eighties due to zoomies in Angeles City getting themselves shot I would go to places 'canos didn't go, learning Tagalog had its advantages. if one did not speak Tagalog if they went into a pinoy bar they didn't stay long. every one I went into for the first time they would show their displeasure of my presence by breaking ashtrays and glasses on the floor where I was sitting I'd just say "hoy pare bukit ganya ka?" after that it'd be like we'd been drink buddies for years.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   1:44:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I really like the Cornbread Red rendition of Southern Cross and as I've never been to Seattle I'm fairly sure I know not the gal of which you speak.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   1:47:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"hoy pare bukit ganya ka?"

dont know what that means.

i was the typical military tourist, and languages didnt make much difference... context defined the natives, and if they were mildly goodlooking girls in a bar, that's all it took.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:51:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

southern cross is a crazy song.

later than judy blue eyes by quite a bit.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   1:54:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

hey pal why do you have to be like that? is the basic translation. I didn't like paying tourist prices for beer so I was more likely to hang out at a sari-sari store and drink or the pinoy bars. the bars that catered to 'canos would charge from 10 to 20 pesos for a beer, I never paid more than 6 pesos a beer at the pinoy bars and as little as 3 pesos at the sari-sari stores. hinda ko kariput, ako yagit! I'm not a cheapskate, I'm poor!

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   2:05:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

decent

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   2:06:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

the really fun part was establishing what dialect the person you were talking with spoke, my wife is from Tabaco Albay so I speak what's called the Bicol dialect and the majority of persons I'd come in contact with spoke Papangan so I learned both but here in Texas we just speak Bicol to each other, it drives the mexicans nuts.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   2:18:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

she might be all that all i have left, and music is her name

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   2:24:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

should you feel the urge check out the bumper music for the Agenda 21 talk show they play various cuts by Cornbread Red with Southern Cross being one of them.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   3:00:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

good grief.

i couldnt seem to access cornbread red by the link you posted, but i googled them.

good stuff.

all we got to do now is convince them to write songs that matter.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   3:06:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

the problem for me, in particular, seems to be, that i cant play worth a shit, my voice takes a lot of getting used to, and i'm running out of what it takes, assuming i ever had what it takes in the first place.

cornbread red has the tools... maybe i will listen longer... maybe they're saying stuff that registers in the long run.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   3:11:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

of course not they are the bumper music for the shows you have to listen to the shows to hear the bumper music and the shows them self are very interesting. some of the best parts are when Gary from Georgia calls in, that guy knows some law and legal process.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   3:14:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I have a face for radio and a voice for print.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-09   3:16:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

well, whoever's putting the recordings together is doing a great job with the talent, and the talent is boggling.

but it always boils down to the same thing: if the music isnt relevant, it might as well be lady ga ga.

i gots to listen more to try to figure out what they're saying, keeping in mind that the perfect song is so ambiguous that everyone thinks the song is about them.

groundresonance  posted on  2010-01-09   3:19:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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