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The scammers on this site aren't so smart. They try their hardest to get my email address out of me, but without success. Yet I have not the slightest difficulty in getting hold of theirs.

It must have been last year when I flushed too much paper (among other things) down the toilet and clogged the entire sewer pipe. I bought a 50 foot plumbing snake and lots of drain cleaning chemicals to get the pipe open again. Doing the work manually took a few hours but the job was done. A few weeks ago the plumbing back-up happened again. I tried for 30 minutes with the snake. Having no luck and not wanting to fight with it, we left Miami for the condo and put off the project for the following weekend.
I decided to rent a 75 foot power feed unit from Home Depot. This thing was pathetically slow and I got about 60 feet into the drain line and it was still clogged. Setting the power feed to retract the coil jammed the mechanism and it would not retract. A call to Home Depot and they told me to wrap the coil as best as I can. I had to pull the coil out by hand (with rubberized gloves) and at the end of the snake was a chunk of 'something' that I originally thought was a clog of hair! Close observation revealed it was thin long roots. There are no trees in the area where the underground pipes travel. I know the old drain pipes are made from clay/pottery in sections about 6 feet long and the joints were sealed with tar. Over the years, the ground settles and water seeps into the soil. That's what attracts roots to grown to the water source and enter the pipes usually cracking them if this goes on for any length of time. So, I knew the reason as the paper (and poo) snagged on it's way to Washington D.C.

Using a few feet of copper wire wrapping I was able to get the coil around the outside of the machine and back to the store. They were nice to allow more time for the rental and gave me another machine that had a power feed at least 10 times faster than the broken one. We got back to the project and this time I added a cutter head attachment that's designed to shave off roots inside the pipe. The company who hires out to clean drains with a drain auger is Roto-Rooter. This is similar only cheaper as I'm doing it myself.

Less than 30 minutes with the new machine cleaned the clog. I ran it back and forth several times to be sure to scrape away as much of the roots as possible.

This weekend I gave it the ultimate 'poo down the pipe' test and all went well.
No worries!

Friday the 13th to be exact and a full moon.
I fired someone this week, walked out of a doctor's office yesterday after waiting an hour and 45 minutes with an appointment. If someone else gives me shit my response may be less than pleasant.
Not enough time to paint my house I hired someone to do the job. Last week was perfect and now the weather is scattered showers for the next 5 days.

U all know that I am in computers. Well a lot of change is happening in that field by the second.

We can expect AI, and everything that u said was impossible, when seen in Sci-Fi movies.

The idea is:-

Just about nothing is impossible. If someone dreams up something, someone will figure out how to practically invent it. What bothers me in situations like that, is the original person that dreamed up the idea, gets no recognition for it.

Have been out of a long relationship for almost 3 months and things seem strange sometimes. In general, I deal well with loneliness, but sometimes is not easy. Just wondering how everyone is dealing with loneliness, please feel free to share your thoughts if you like

I started smoking at the age of 20, when I met my ex, who was a regular smoker, as I could not handle him smoking and I thought I was in love, so could not live without him either or the smoking.

I have found in the last number of years, since they started banning smoking in buildings and restaurants, that the people that kept on smoking, had a certain IQ level.

I'm a born analyst and am always looking for patterns.

So here was another pattern. Do u know what?

''Your ancestors outnumber your fears
Feel their power.''


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...sage job advice for youth. Seek out jobs that put emphasis on ability to work in different and unpredictable situations, that maximise human interactive interpersonal qualities, such as humor, social/emotional intelligence and multisituational creativity. Avoid repetitive sorts of work without these features. Become a Cyberhacker.

If that sounds like a big task, my suggestion is to start with a magnet!