Man, plumbing always sucks. I ripped out all my old galvanized/pvc/copper supply lines this summer and replaced everything with PEX, with ball valve shutoffs and rubber supply lines to all the faucets, and insulation on all the PEX. I also had to do a bunch of work on the drain lines, the ABS pipes had been cut apart and spliced back together not quite level so many times there were low spots where I was getting standing water that would freeze and block the pipe. It was quite a bit of work and I figure it was about $300 all totaled, with the majority of that being the tool for the crimp rings and all the fittings and valves, but it was well worth it. So far this winter the supply lines have frozen twice, which was caused by a draft through a wall I'd been working on and hadn't put back together, and both times clearing the freeze took under 20 minutes with the good old hair dryer, where before it could have taken hours to warm up that old steel. The drains I've had no problems with.
I spent most of today sleeping, I've had a damn long week. My division of the company I work for contracts printer repair and supplies, and a new client wanted backup toners for all their printers. So someone ordered toners for all their printers, and had them shipped with no indication of which printers they go to or where on the clients campus they were supposed to go. We're not talking just a few toners either, we're talking something like 200 printers, of which about 25% are color (4 toners instead of 1), spread out through dozens of different buildings. So I've been down there all week trying to sort out this mess, get toners to where they need to go, aside from running my usual service calls.
Oh, and Thursday was my 30th birthday, I started it by waking up at 6:30 with my back killing me. I took some ibuprofen and went to email my boss that I wasn't sure if I'd even be able to work today, but at the least I'd be running late. Then I found out my internet was acting up, the computer could see the wifi, but it wouldn't connect. I'd had problems with it doing this before, after windows update installed a new driver, so I stared troubleshooting it, and fell back asleep waiting for the computer to reboot. I woke up at 10:30 when my boss called to ask where the heck I was. I told her I was extremely sorry and that I was hitting the road, before I remembered that the internet was down, and I still needed to get online to get my service calls. So I messed around with the computer some more, and found out the problem was actually my router - which I'd just replaced on Monday after my old one died. The rest of the day didn't go much better, although the birthday party after work was fun, I kicked my brother's ass at pool.
