Useless Conversation

[Cim]

My family made me a Mii while I was in the field.  I came back and they were all excited about showing me.  When they did, I was disappointed. I let them know this by deleting my Mii, and all of the other Miis on the system.

[schild]

Subject: CosmicFuckStickBerry

You know, I'd been in the market for some Cosmic Berries. But these spammers have just one-upped it with Cosmic Fuck Stick Berries. It's amazing how they can read my mind and 1-up me these days.

[Signe]

One of my email addresses that I don't check very often (last time before today was December 14) is giving me all the silly banner adverts in Spanish. 

[Yegolev]

Those of you playing the home version of Yegolev: The Gathering will remember that there is a serious water shortage in my county.  You might also remember that I am having a pool built.  In an effort to avoid paying someone $5000 to fill my pool with sweet, sweet water, I choose to implement a wacky scheme.  I present Operation Groundwater.



Pricing on garden hose begins today.

[Merusk]

Wait a month or two and Lowes/ Home Depot usually has really good deals on cheap hose.   IIRC I picked up my new 50' one for $30 last year, but that was a quality hose.   You'd obviously be buying the cheapass "one season and done" crap.

[Sky]

Cheap hose.

Heh.   

[Salamok]

Those of you playing the home version of Yegolev: The Gathering will remember that there is a serious water shortage in my county.  You might also remember that I am having a pool built.  In an effort to avoid paying someone $5000 to fill my pool with sweet, sweet water, I choose to implement a wacky scheme.  I present Operation Groundwater.



Pricing on garden hose begins today.

if this fails I wonder if plan b will operation rain water and involve the construction of a very large funnel

[Sky]

I think plan c involves capturing an ice comet in earth's gravity well.

[Yegolev]

If it was raining enough for me to capture enough water to fill a pool, I wouldn't be in this predicament.  Plan B is to give someone $5000 to haul in water.  Plan C is to fill several large containers and haul by pickup truck.  I still don't know if I can draw water from that well; I'm being told the pump is broken.

[Yegolev]

By the way, it's only a matter of time before I start on the Ice Pirate jokes.

[Lantyssa]

What's the difference in elevation?

[Moosehands]

By the way, it's only a matter of time before I start on the Ice Pirate jokes.

[Merusk]

Sending the water 1100 feet away, you'd need an extra pump or two anyway.  Are you even certain of the elevation difference between yourself and the well?  I'd imagine even a foot or two uphill means a lot bigger pump at that distance, but I'm not an engineer versed in fluid dynamics.   

[schild]

Sending the water 1100 feet away, you'd need an extra pump or two anyway.  Are you even certain of the elevation difference between yourself and the well?  I'd imagine even a foot or two uphill means a lot bigger pump at that distance, but I'm not an engineer versed in fluid dynamics.   

If there's a tiny bit of uphill, he has siphoning power on his side if he can turn the pump up to 11.

[Signe]

I've been having phantom coffee smells all day today.  Does anyone ever have those?  It's annoying because I don't drink coffee in the evenings and I'm having a really strong craving.  I'll give in, eventually, and even a sleeping pill won't knock me out, I bet. 

[Strazos]

Yegolev, that plan is pure awesome.

Also, your house has a nice lot. 

[WayAbvPar]

I've been having phantom coffee smells all day today.  Does anyone ever have those?  It's annoying because I don't drink coffee in the evenings and I'm having a really strong craving.  I'll give in, eventually, and even a sleeping pill won't knock me out, I bet. 

Have you heard about the latest craze? DECAF coffee! All the cool kids drink it.


Is there a roasting plant anywhere near you? That smell can carry for miles.


Or you could have a tumor.

[schild]

It's not a tumor! It's a starbucks!

Fuck, that was weak.

[Signe]

My kitchen is filled with coffee beans but it's coffee brewing that I smell.  I love the smell of fresh coffee, coffee bean... almost any sort of coffee smell.  I don't usually phatomsize it, though.  Maybe I should get some decaf beans for times like this.  Dunno.  I've never used decaf beans.  Too late for tonight, though.  If I give in, it'll have to be the real deal. 

[rattran]

Decaf is evil.

[Signe]

I R BINARY TWICE! 

[Merusk]

Sending the water 1100 feet away, you'd need an extra pump or two anyway.  Are you even certain of the elevation difference between yourself and the well?  I'd imagine even a foot or two uphill means a lot bigger pump at that distance, but I'm not an engineer versed in fluid dynamics.   

If there's a tiny bit of uphill, he has siphoning power on his side if he can turn the pump up to 11.

I meant uphill to his place, not if the well was uphill from him, but yeah if he's downhill that'd be superfab.

[Yegolev]

Yegolev, that plan is pure awesome.

Also, your house has a nice lot. 

Thanks, but I obviously forgot about elevation.  My property stops at the lower horizontal treeline.  I am indeed uphill.  I don't know by how much.  First I have to see if the pump works.  Plan C seems more likely now, by which I mean load water into a pickup truck.  I might be able to find someone with a tank that hasn't been filled with pesticide, but that's a long shot.  It also occured to me that it would take eight hundred years to fill a pool using this hose system; I figure it's going to be a rather low GPM rate.

Plan D is, if I can pull this off via tank that I can borrow indefinitely, to sell water myself.


Also:
"Shouldn't you be at the controls?"
*pause, shrug, move downward*

[Signe]

You should have built a sauna instead.  God, I'd love to have a sauna in my house! 

[Yegolev]

I have a hot tub.  Close enough.

[MrHat]

We were going to install one of those Steam Shower thingies in the basement.  Then I told my wife to just close the damn door and not turn on the fan.

I'm all about saving money so I can spend it on tiny gadgets that go in my pocket.

[Yegolev]

My brother in law installed a steam shower recently.  The unit was expensive and he had to line the shower with special drywall before tiling it.  I think it's an upgrade over the usual shower-stall-drywall but I'm not 100% sure.  The door is hard to open.  I use the close-door-no-fan method myself.

[Signe]

There is nothing like a good sauna.  They're wonderful.

[bhodi]

My brother in law installed a steam shower recently.  The unit was expensive and he had to line the shower with special drywall before tiling it.  I think it's an upgrade over the usual shower-stall-drywall but I'm not 100% sure.  The door is hard to open.  I use the close-door-no-fan method myself.

I do as well, but I am worried about the damage it's doing to my drywall...

[Signe]

Ok, I think you don't understand.  I'm talking about a proper sauna, not some steamy thingy that used to be your shower stall.  Or maybe I'm confused which is more likely.

[Yegolev]

Maybe you are someone to have an actual sauna in your house.  You do live on a golf course, so anything's possible.  For me, it would be overkill.  Also, I live in Atlanta so I can just go outside between May and October.

[Signe]

I wish I had a sauna in my house... well, in a yard, rather.  I was just mostly saying I enjoy a sauna more than say, a pool or a hot tub.  I don't have any of them!  We're renting a townhouse! 

[Sky]

I want to install a volcanic hot spring. Anyone got a few billion tons of magma I could bury?

[Merusk]

My brother in law installed a steam shower recently.  The unit was expensive and he had to line the shower with special drywall before tiling it.  I think it's an upgrade over the usual shower-stall-drywall but I'm not 100% sure.  The door is hard to open.  I use the close-door-no-fan method myself.

I do as well, but I am worried about the damage it's doing to my drywall...

1) How old is your house.

 If it was built in the last 15-20 years, chances are probably pretty good you have 'greenboard' or cementatious board behind /around the shower as it is.  If you've got a tiled shower wall, you definitely do NOT have gypsum board (drywall) back there.

2) How much "steam" are you actually producing?

Chances are, you're doing squat to your drywall, unless you're generating enough steam that you get puddles of condensation around the bathroom.  Your paint is more than sufficient to seal the board against average condensate in a bathroom.

[Yegolev]

I'd be more worried about mold in that situation.