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If you build a bathroom wrong it ends up leaking all over the place and destroying two rooms in your house.

I’ll get some pics up later today. But it turns out that the shower drain wasn’t seated into the drain pipe so any time the pipe had too much water it would just overflow and drip down to the ceiling below it. So we tore out the whole bathroom (this was a second floor bathroom) and learned some neat stuff about our house. First we learned that there is not insulation on the outside walls (no wonder it was so cold/expensive this winter). Then we learned that there was no structural beam supporting the shower or the toilet, it had been cut out to make room for the plumbing. We learned that the second floor was dormered out in 1928, about forty years after the house was built. We also learned that the wrong way to install a light socket is to saw the wall stud clean off and put the electrical box in its place.

Oh well, we are pretty excited about getting to renovate the room. We are building a shower out of tiles but we can’t figure out what to do about the doors, so if you know anything about where I can get custom made glass doors for showers please let me know.

Also a lot of the wiring in super duper old wiring and we need to update it to the Romex stuff, if you know anything about that please let me know.
Too much fun.

Ginger just graduated from her beginning training class at Katy K9.

We got two new Koi for our pond, I’ll get pictures of them later.  They are a couple of big old Koi, they are three years old and over a foot long.  Their names are Obama and Hilary.

And if course here is a fantastic picture of myself with Ginger and Toby curled up on the couch.

I have been playing a ton of Grand Theft Auto IV lately.  I’m about 50% done with the game but I feel like I have got a ton of stuff to do.  There are not many games that manage to wrap me into the story and characters quite like this game has.  I haven’t let it get in the way of my studies and College Algebra is actually a lot of fun too.

WTF They Killed Warrick!?!?!

-Josh

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants