I accidentally ran across this video today from 10 years ago. I had never seen it before and at the time of my watching it there has been only 43 views. First a loud beep over SMPTE color bars, then experience the laid back music under text, the Sewer Dragon lady, and clips from one of the Central Coast's Regional Water Quality Control Board's Cease and Desist hearings, for the dreaded CDOs.
Monday, May 29, 2017
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Prague's Museum Of Chamber Pots, Etc.
Darn. It wasn't on the tour and I did not do my homework. I missed the The Hygiene Museum when I was in Prague. Oh well, have a look, sorry I could not bring you more!
http://muzeumnocniku.cz/en/home/
http://muzeumnocniku.cz/en/home/
Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Finally, The Hook-Up!
Mid-April-ish, strange paint markings appeared in the street and in the yard. Rumor has it a permit was pulled....
Now, in May, we are a month plus past the time to hook up to the sewer. We are in Phase III and the San Luis Obispo Tribune has already had an article about "those" people who have not yet hooked up to the sewer. Well, rainy weather, contractors dropping out, and who knows what else, delayed our getting started after paying our deposit in October 2016.
I ignored my cell buzzing as I was stuffing my face with lunch at La Palapa. Suddenly apparently, the lateral crew was at our house and digging a hole in the front yard to try to find the pipe coming out of the house. There is a kitchen on one side, two bathrooms and the washing machine on the other.
Then there was the picture from the county website showed two septic tanks. Why two tanks? We don't know. One giant hole has uncovered a pipe and a concrete tank, but what is that other blob on the county's image? When I questioned the worker, the response was: "We are going to use a water probe to go deeper" to look for that second tank. (Must look up the term, "water probe.")
Then there was the ugly white plastic pipe with the cap which I artfully covered by a lava rock planter, empty of its Bonsai tree, dead 35 years ago. I now learn that this is the cap to the leach field. And below that that is the blob apparently.
The original concrete bin IS the septic tank. To think I sat on top of it all comfy in an adirondack chair, munching a turkey sandwich never imagining it would, after some processing and transformation, traverse piping to wind up a few feet below where I sat. I know, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but the gooey part in the middle....ugh.
Now the question was to find the pipe coming from the north side of the house that handles the two bathrooms and the washing machine. The kitchen pipe is elsewhere.
There was a joint where the two pipes came together. But the angle of the main pipe was wrong. It wasn't going to work! The entire pipe had to be removed and replaced! Well, that went rather quickly. Below is the end result.
Then the new, white pipe went under the fence and out to the stubbed pipe that comes from the street.
Now, in May, we are a month plus past the time to hook up to the sewer. We are in Phase III and the San Luis Obispo Tribune has already had an article about "those" people who have not yet hooked up to the sewer. Well, rainy weather, contractors dropping out, and who knows what else, delayed our getting started after paying our deposit in October 2016.
I ignored my cell buzzing as I was stuffing my face with lunch at La Palapa. Suddenly apparently, the lateral crew was at our house and digging a hole in the front yard to try to find the pipe coming out of the house. There is a kitchen on one side, two bathrooms and the washing machine on the other.
Then there was the picture from the county website showed two septic tanks. Why two tanks? We don't know. One giant hole has uncovered a pipe and a concrete tank, but what is that other blob on the county's image? When I questioned the worker, the response was: "We are going to use a water probe to go deeper" to look for that second tank. (Must look up the term, "water probe.")
Then there was the ugly white plastic pipe with the cap which I artfully covered by a lava rock planter, empty of its Bonsai tree, dead 35 years ago. I now learn that this is the cap to the leach field. And below that that is the blob apparently.
The original concrete bin IS the septic tank. To think I sat on top of it all comfy in an adirondack chair, munching a turkey sandwich never imagining it would, after some processing and transformation, traverse piping to wind up a few feet below where I sat. I know, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but the gooey part in the middle....ugh.
Now the question was to find the pipe coming from the north side of the house that handles the two bathrooms and the washing machine. The kitchen pipe is elsewhere.
There was a joint where the two pipes came together. But the angle of the main pipe was wrong. It wasn't going to work! The entire pipe had to be removed and replaced! Well, that went rather quickly. Below is the end result.
It was hard to get a decent shot without falling into the hole.
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Tonight, after dinner, it was time to shower, then flush and forget.
The inspector is supposed to come tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Morro Bay's Sewer Plod Lampooned By Shredder
Well, Los Osos is not the only local town to have had a sewage problem, and not just literally, as in leaking pipes, but in that striking lack of action one could equate to clogged plumbing be it hairballs, or one's personal, blocked alimentary canal. The New Times brilliant and snarky wit-meister, the Shredder, takes Morro Bay to task this time, offering some verbal Dulcolax.
Have a fun read, as long as you are not eating. (Pooping is permissible, but that is a matter of taste.)
http://www.newtimesslo.com/shredder/15325/whats-brown-and-runs-downhill/
Have a fun read, as long as you are not eating. (Pooping is permissible, but that is a matter of taste.)
http://www.newtimesslo.com/shredder/15325/whats-brown-and-runs-downhill/
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