Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.

Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.

I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.

In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.

Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.

#DIY #plumbing #HomeRepair

When *Angels' Wings* emerged from jump, they found themselves in a #convoluted field structure. David charted a complex course toward the planetoid where the research facility was located.
"*Angels' Wings*," crackled the speaker. "Clearance level Alpha. You are directed to berth 435."
"In the pipe, five by five," responded Nene.
"They know who we are?" asked Zaza.
"It's easier to modify the truth than to construct a lie," Grumpy explained.
"As long as they have cake, Bebe doesn't mind."

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#Convoluted plot
I completely lost the thread:
the climax falls flat.

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Through the window, he saw her smile at a table bursting with homemade Xmas foods. He knew what she had been through and felt proud of her, though all he had been conspicuous by was his absence.

Now, he held space for her.

Perhaps, things were not that #convoluted...

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