Note to readers:
As you can see the web site now has a sponser. It was interesting to see that our plumbing story generated enough interest for advertising. Why did I decided to allow advertising? It is not for the money. It takes 50,000 hits to the web site to generate $1. At most I think the site gets about 10 unique hits a week. That means it will take 500 weeks or ~10 years to get one dollar. I decided to allow advertising to support Google. I don't have to pay anything in order to publish this site and they seem to keep the posts around for quite some time. Anyway that's the reason.
Good:
1. The drain is now unplugged. We went to Home Depot - which had a much better selection of snakes. We got a 25' rooter. It has a hand crank on the top. It worked much better than the original drill driven snake - although it cost twice as much. I won't tell you the rest of the story but the bottom line is that we can now use the shower in the master bathroom!
2. We fired up the Switch Friday. It took us a little while to get it up and running - basically about 1 day. So far so good. We still have a bunch of testing to complete but we were all excited about our progress so far.
3. Tim, Shannon, and Bryce had us over for a cook out. It was good - in fact it was like Christmas. They gave us all of Bryce's old clothes because they found out they are having a girl. We were excited for them and it really helps getting a leg up in the clothes department.
Bad:
1. Jen hasn't felt 100% the last couple of days. There was a woman at my work that had come down with something. I felt a little bad myself - my throat dripped a little and I had a headache. Jen had the same sympotms but I think they bothered her a little more.
2. We found out at work the flexes for the box due 9/4 are not going to come in until the 8/20 and 8/21. That really does not give us much time at all to finish building the two boxes by 9/4. We will be sprinting to the end.
3. Keegan cut his little toe. Jen took him outside and he pushed off on the side walk and scraped his little toe. It really isn't that bad but he keeps kicking off the bandaide.
