I haven't been doing the updates on here very frequently. Too bad. I have a couple of thoughts from the last few weeks.

One of the great unanswered questions: What does the inside of your nose smell like?

I appear to have plumbing gnomes. My kitchen sink trap recently began to leak. Multiple trips to the hardware store later, I have all PVC parts under there and a complete replacement of the brass spaghetti mess that the original plumbers left me. Not that I did much better, since they parts don't line up without a bit of a diversion from a direct run.

Anyway, after conceeding that I'd have to do the funky run, I got things bought and connected together. But having a 45 bend in there makes it hard to tighten the joints, as turning one end tends to loosen the other. I gave up for the day and left a bucket under there for the drips, planning on waiting for the weekend to take it apart again and tighten one side out where I could get more hands on it.

This weekend, the bucket was dry. So I washed my dishes. Still dry. So I dumped a gallon container down the sink. Still dry. My leak healed.

My dad suggested that if I've got plumbing gnomes, I'd better put out an offering of steak and beer.