"Bread and Water"

I used a little plumbing trick today that I learned from a college teacher more than 30 years ago. I think I mentioned that I am putting in a bathroom at the neighbours house so that Colby and Kylie can have a bathtub. While the plumbing for the toilet went flawlessly I ended up with a few leaks with the bathtub. Some of the soldering was way up in the celing where it was extremely hard to get at...at least that's my excuse. Of course I found the leaks by turning on the water and then the lines were all full of water and it is extremely hard to get it all out, and impossibe to solder if there is any moisture left. So here's the trick. You take a wad of bread and stuff it up the pipe just before you begin to solder the joint. The bread gives you a few minutes of dryness and afterwards the bread simply disolves in the line. Pretty cool eh?

And speaking of bread and water, you can tell that that's what I've been living on. The inner circle is the belt I wear now. The slightly larger one is from my former life.





And if you think that's funny, how about the fact that I eat twice as much now as I did then, and while I drink a lot of water I admit that I eat very little bread

Just another ordinary workout day. I rode 33 kms and followed it up with a 4.5 km run. It is getting more and more natural to run after I ride.

I got out of my weight workout by working late on the bathtub. Tomorrow I will only swim as Sunday is marathon day!!

I wish to dedicate day 233 to Mr Ken Snyder, the aforementioned college teacher. He's the guy who got me interested in all things technical.

...on teachers and plumbers..

“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."---John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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peter