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Myself and Jai at breakfast. That spoon has attacked me in the past (i.e. I bumped it with my head and it fell on me). ...spoon...
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Snowed just a little tonight. It'll be gone by in a few hours as the temperature is about 34 F.
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Today I went to the DMV and get plates for my car. I've now driven for an entire week without a single issue with no licenses plates. I honestly felt quite uncomfortable doing this, feeling that at any time I could be pulled over. Even thought I possessed the proper paper work, I still do not trust the police.
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Not extremely clear, but this is a picture of some of the water flow in the basement. Today it was raining pretty good outside—the most rain we've had since we have lived at this house. And in the basement, it literally pored through openings in the wall. Some channeling had been done to direct the water toward the floor drain. However, a large patch for floor by the washer had no setup—the dikes had either broken or were not present. This area of the floor slopped to the middle of the basement, where a large poor of water collected.
To combat the water, I tried rebuilding the broken dikes. Since I had no caulk or mortar, I used used spray-in expanding foam. To my surprise, it was working. We did manage to direct some of the water to a channel the ran to the drain. However, all of the area behind the washer and dryer had no such channel to follow and continued to flow to the center of the room.
In the center of the room, a pipe had been run under the floor to the drain at one of the low spots. Unfortunately, it was clogged. We tried several times to break the clog, but to no avail. Our last attempt employed 100+ PSI of compressed air. But it was unable to break up the clog. My guess is that a small piece of concrete has become lodged in the pipe. But how to get this out I'm not sure.
I put my shop vacuum to work and it did a great job of sucking up water. The only down side was that it only took about a minute to fill the vacuum . The water was coming in so fast that it only took a few minutes to replace all the water I vacuumed up.
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Stairs to the basement. Lighting of these stairs has posed some questions that need to be answered. I thought about a motion sensor to turn on lights as someone approaches the stairs. I've also considered using a nightlight in the area as well. Nothing yet set in stone, but a solution is needed--it's really hard to walk up and down these stairs without light!
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