plumbing, motorcycles and broken computers

Over this weekend I helped my Dad (well mostly I did it) finish switching our house from having copper water pipes go under the house to having Pex piping inside the house. They are switching from a furnace that kept the under of the house slightly above freezing to a wood pellet stove that does not push hot air through the same duct work. I am NOT a plumber and nor do I ever want to be, there was some soldering that needed to be done and I hate it. I understand how to do it but soldering existing pipes is an absolute pain in the ass. There were some leaks which needed to be repaired but all in all it went sorta smoothly. Yay completed chore! Now I just hope it holds because after I leave in October to go back to Austin I am not making any house calls to fix it.

On the positive side of things, Michelle got an unexpected second shot (had some clutch and throttle issues the first time like most new riders)at the motorcycle riding class (the riding portion) this weekend and passed! so now all she needs to do is get her license. Let's hope this is the last time she managed to get one of these from a bike though .. ouch!


Michelle unfortunately managed to gather enough negative karma (you would think that bruise would have been enough bad karma used up, what have you been doing Michelle?) to kill her laptop somehow though. Monday morning when she booted it up she got the dreaded "invalid partition table" message. You have to love Microsoft's inability to do things safely, they would never admit it was an update that did this but Sunday night the last thing she did was process some "critical" updated before shutting down. Ugh, wish I had been there to help fix it ...

Hmm, oh and i went to The 99 Restaurant for dinner last night and got the Captain's Platter. Better than the Captain's Feast at Red Lobster but I missed the cheesy rolls, though the chowder was a good addition.