But a bad/worn out suit is so damn annoying. Also, chafing. My last super cheap (but still poly, so it laaaaasted, even as it tried to kill me/make me flash the pool) suit annoyed me all the time, and I'd bought 2. But my favorite speedos came up for a super sale, so I bought 2 of those and moved on. Always have the backup cheap one. But never again. Sticking with the speedos, just keeping on alert for sales.

Nice thing about the tolerance is that I really can savor a good wine all night and taste how it changes as it sits or with different nibbles, or compare quite a variety at a flights night. Bad thing is that it is spendy.

then called me to tell me he'd buried the bag in the bushes out front. Which we don't actually have. After scouring the neighbors bushes for a while (in freezing rain) I finally found it in a big plant on the porch.

Um, that is so many kinds of wrong. And then I get to abandoned tuna and I can't get over that, freezing temps or no.

Wow, brenda, that is an incredible misadventure. Impressive!

"Buried the bag in the bushes out front" may be the craziest thing I've ever heard. Related to food delivery, at least.

Basically giving the snaking one more go before I surrender to committing to a new line+cleanout+ TEAR UP MY NEW FRONT YARD (I think that bothers me more than even the $$$$. Goddamn, I will have to dig up all those plants, get the guy to rebuilt the wall, uhhg.)

Ugh, that all sounds terrible.

Really, it is a day or so of work for the plumbing, probably a day for the yard guys....and a few hours for me digging and replanting. Really, not bad. Not like some. BUT I DON'T WANT TO.

No, of course you don't, but once it's done it's done, right?

Yup. But first, need to get over hating the phone and calling for bids/videoscoping to see if truly necessary.

What I really want to know is who is cutting metal a block or so over at past 11 at night the past couple nights? Sounds serious.

Brenda, your delivery guy never made it past the first word of the slogan.

Ayup. It occurred to me that "for stoners, by stoners" might also be apt.

Managed more than 5 hours of consecutive sleep (you'd think this wouldn't be a thing for someone who loves sleep and hates waking as much as me, but it's been rare for the past month or so) and even the cats cooperated.

Now to finish the coffee and think about cleaning this first floor. As long as Pumpkin doesn't sabotage me....