New Zealand for a few years.

I have other loved ones in USA

First one: My fault, got distracted siphoning a wash cube. about 10l of terrys fast ferment went all over the kitchen floor, under the dishwaher, down the fuckin' walls and into the brewery. Much drying and forced air and all that horrid stuff culminating in me having to rip out a shitload of chipboard (this house is so old the cabinets do not have legs. The side panels go all the way to the floor. And wick up everything) and replace with marine ply I'd hit with several coats of aquastop because I am a big believer in "You get ONE fuckin' shot ya cunt"

Second: During the brief rain we see one of the downspouts pissing water out of its join about a meter and half up the wall and soaking a foundation wall. I dug that up this weekend past and found out the bottom of that downspout in fact goes nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. So gonna shove a tank on that because we're going to very shortly be ripping all that up to repair the other downspout anyway. Thankfully its termination into dirt was far enough away from the corner to not be undermining the house. Yet.

Third: Mentioned previous, the 2am pee that turned into a "OH GOD THE BASEMENTS FLOODING". Inlet hose on washing machine

Four: His lordship is officially on holiday this week. He nips down the brewery, and I notice there's some moisture on a stair that usually dries off this late after rain. Right near a gully trap. Which looks a bit high. I open the door to ask him to run some water so I can investigate and discover him frantically pulling things away from a thin streak of piss down the wall. Turns out the terracotta throat of the gully trap has a massive crack in it so the water pisses into the wall when it gets high rather than doing what gully traps are supposed to do. Cause: fatberg from Old Mate who previously owned the house causing a slow drain, and despite it being on the kitchen, until we were using the brewery we never pushed the water in that trap (it's separate to the one that services the shower, laundry and TOILET, thank fuck) to the point of overflow before. Not even when using his condenser, as he traps all that water and I use it in the garden. Several keg cleans in the sink while the dishwasher was running did it though.

Blockage king came and deblockled it, and then ran a camera down it for his own edification as he apparently also used to service Old Mate back in the day and was curious as to how old the line was. Answer: Cast iron

Agreed, I’ve just looked and even secondhand are expensive. And I have a bad habit of getting interested in something then dropping it

Edit: it would be cool to make my own like those old cigar box instruments but I’m really tired these days so not doing all that

I’ve actually got a ukulele! I bought an inexpensive but semi good quality one from a music shop for those reasons years ago, planning to tune it as a mandolin.

But unfortunately only 4 strings is a limitation and I hate 99.99% of the songs for ukulele. I recently pulled it out of the cupboard just for finger exercises but already getting a bit bored.

I give my stuff to the MS society. I'm ok with that.

Fiskars amplify

Maybe? I’m not a mod or anything so don’t have any input into decisions about the instance, I’m just someone who keeps poking them back to life

It'll be back tomorrow.

I used to need way more, but that's been reduced since getting to my 40s.

Regardless of amount or timing I live the life of a sloth

I woke up really early yesterday (like 630) having only slept 6 hours. Decided to get up cause I know i'd feel like shite if I fell back asleep. Was okay for most of the day, but did have a 30 minute power nap at noon. Have had 2 coffees today, so kind of feeling okay now.

Damn, really? I get 6-7 normally and am fine. This was the first time in a long time I did 8 uninterrupted. Thought it would be better.

And how you'll level up hands and chop up your deck to the point it doesn't even feel based on poker anymore. Then you throw a whole run because you feel like you should be playing the originally higher scoring hands when really pairs and high cards are the way to go

🧠🫁🫀🫑🧅

🔥☕️🥛

It’s still really unstable and sore but I’ll do those when it heals a bit