What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Forlorn Drifter]

Another place to hit in Austin, AQ, is Guerro's. Not traditional Mexican food, but some good stuff, really. And I've never been in there without seeing a singer or actor. The last time I was there I saw and shook hands with Junior Brown, and saw the guys from Steel Panther. Its a sweet place. Might look into the Chili Parlor too, but FYI its more of a bar overall, but the food's pretty good as I remember.

So glad to be done with that damn AP test. Last standardized test I will ever take.

[Hobie-wan]

septic on battery backup

What? Why does your septic need a pump? What part of your system isn't just a tank, field lines, and gravity? Water I can understand if you're on a well like my parents are.

shook hands with Junior Brown

Cool, did you see a show, or was he just there? I'm not a huge fan or anything, but he is one of the few country things I like and I do have a few albums. If I was paying attention I'd probably even go to a show. He seems like a really nice guy from videos and interviews I've seen.

[mjmjr25]

septic on battery backup

What? Why does your septic need a pump? What part of your system isn't just a tank, field lines, and gravity? Water I can understand if you're on a well like my parents are.

Just about every county in Northern MN requires a mound system - i'm in one of those counties, so gravity does the work until it gets to the tank, from there it is pumped up about 12' to the top of the mound. Without that electric pump, it'll back up into the house after a couple days. Leech fields and home-made concrete blocks w/long drain pipes are illegal. (existing systems are grandfathered in, but any new systems or any systems in need of repair must be mound).

[Hobie-wan]

Just about every county in Northern MN requires a mound system - i'm in one of those counties, so gravity does the work until it gets to the tank, from there it is pumped up about 12' to the top of the mound. Without that electric pump, it'll back up into the house after a couple days. Leech fields and home-made concrete blocks w/long drain pipes are illegal. (existing systems are grandfathered in, but any new systems or any systems in need of repair must be mound).

Granted it's super flat here (so no basement to possibly feed drains up) and my parents have always been outside city limits, but that just seems odd. Both the house we lived in when I was little and the house my parents built, it is all drains but kitchen and clothes washer to a concrete septic tank, then a lower exit out the tank to field lines. The kitchen and washer have their own smaller 'grease trap' septic tank with its own field lines. Unless there's bad flooding or some blockage in need of an empty, it's all gravity. Do you have shallow dirt with rock below or something?

[mjmjr25]

It's partially to do with the ground being heavy with clay and not draining well, but it's mostly a rule in counties in MN due to home-made systems not meeting environmental requirements. Emptying too close to wells or bodies of water, or people not burying their drain pipes deep enough leading to waste being exposed to kids and animals before it's been thoroughly filtered., etc

Our old tank was all gravity, yeah. Our new mound system empties out about 8' below grade and then into a tank which is about 10' below grade, but the pipe then shoots straight up about 25', to about 15' above grade. The top of the mound is probably 10' below our roof line. The mound is purposely built with literally dozens of trucks of rock, dirt, and topsoil. They actually try to build where your property is low so the mound isn't up so much, but our area while bumpy, is pretty level.

Here's a pic of a mound design:

[Forlorn Drifter]

shook hands with Junior Brown

Cool, did you see a show, or was he just there? I'm not a huge fan or anything, but he is one of the few country things I like and I do have a few albums. If I was paying attention I'd probably even go to a show. He seems like a really nice guy from videos and interviews I've seen.

He had a show down the street at the Continental Club, but we didn't get to see him. He was just getting some dinner before the show, munchin' down 4 "grande" tacos. (Take the quesadilla sized tortillas, and multiply them by about 1 and a half.)

[darsparx]

Well just had chicken n' dumplings and green beans along with some strawberry cobbler....and my 3ds arrived today with everything almost minty except the top screen of it(just needs to be wiped off). Seems to be a great day, especially since i will probably end up getting shantae on 3ds since it's way cheaper so I at least have one chance at playing that game in this lifetime ^_^

[REPO Man]

Not for someone who flexes wood.

Isn't doing that in public illegal in most states?

Plus weren't you helping your uncle? So 100 pounds would be nothing with 2 people .

I found that out when I helped my brother throwing the old one in the dumpster near the house, which isn't that far.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but... do you even lift, bro?

Well, I have no exercise equipment or a gym membership (or even close proximity to a gym other than this place called Spa Koru, and even if I did I can't afford a gym membership), so... no.

Most importantly...if someone is paying your cable TV bill, then you at least attempt to help that person move a water heater regardless of: (1) whether you actually want to help; (2) whether you slept the night before; and (3) whether you think it is heavy. Doing otherwise - whcih is what you did here - makes you appear ungrateful.

Personally, I think it sounds like you uncle is trying to teach you some life lessons which you probably should have learned years ago (and which you must learn if you ever want to live independently).

So basically engage in some overexertion when you're already overexerted and lacking the power to do anything else.

And how is the skills that come with chopping firewood (which I've literally NEVER had to do until recently), lawn upkeep (which got me a nasty rash) and so on when I'm living in New York City? The only people with fireplaces can pay someone to get firewood for them. The only people with lawns to mow, weed whack and rake can afford gardeners, especially if they can afford to have a tree to make leaves to rake. And any heavy lifting I'd need to do (like getting furniture into my new place) wouldn't be on just me. For one I'd have people to help me (like my roommates) and that's just if I don't plan on just DIYing my furnishings and/or going to IKEA. Maybe if I get something off of Craigslist.

Basically any such skills I'd learn in a small town would ultimately be rendered irrelevant in a major city where priorities would ultimately shift from yard work to getting to work without getting assaulted or hit by a car. So if he was trying to teach me anything, maybe make it something important, like getting a desk up a third-floor walkup, self defense, personal banking and so on. But since he's part of the group of people in my life who say "you'll never make it in New York", he'll just teach me crap like yard work.

[mjmjr25]

You obviously haven't seen Crocodile Dundee. Paul Hogan OWNED New York.

[Luke]

You obviously haven't seen Crocodile Dundee. Paul Hogan OWNED New York.

Hogan was also the movie's casting director, so keep that in mind.

seth rogaine is starting to piss me off. So our his cronies.

I'm not a fan of the beeber believers either, but continuously shitting on a celebrity to promote your movie is silly.