It’s funny, how Brother likes boxes. He seems really keen on this one. It’s one of the boxes I got the wedding lights in. I cleaned out the lights and put them up in a cabinet, and didn’t didn’t need the box, so I tossed it into the hall. Brother jumped irght into it, anc claimed it.
No, no accidents, but I just was wandering around in circles in the twin cities yesterday.
I am going to blame breakfast. We stopped at McDonalds drive through. The guy took our order, then came back and asked if the one thing we wanted was steak or sausage. I told him I wanted the cheaper one. He said they where the same price. They weren’t. Butt head. Then, once we drove away, they screwed up the other item, and gave us bacon instead of steak.
They charged us more, then didn’t give us what we paid more for.
We drove from my folks to the church for today’s wedding without a problem. From there, it went down hill.
After the rehearsal, we went to go pick up my tux. The GPS couldn’t resolve where we where close enough, so I didn’t turn the right way when I left the church, so I needed to drive around to get there.
We didn’t leave the tux place until when we should have been at the grooms dinner. The GPS got us right to the address for the Minnesota Renaissance Faire. They publish their coorporate office, and just an intersection for the actual faire. Grrr. So, we didn’t get to the lunch at the faire until an hour late.
Leaving the faire, the road we where to take by the GPS’s directions was closed, so we took the scenic route around. Then, when we finally did find the road, it had moved! The GPS was not happy.
Trying to get home, I ended up taking 2 wrong exits due to road construction, and being in the wrong lane. Come around a corner to find that we where in the exit only lane, with a car sitting in the blind spot.
Just a rough day for driving around.
I am a map guy, and while the GPS units are great, they aren’t very good for discovery.
Went cart racing with a bunch of guys for Brian’s Bacholor Party. It was an absolute blast!
My Overflow box strikes again! This thing is the bane of my carpeting! This time, it caused a flood in a different way. The drain tubes fell out of the tank. They stayed put for over a month, then fell out twice within 6 hours. I don’t get it.
Trying to dry out under the tank. This didn’t work very well. I was told ‘the house stank’ so the tank has to move so the leak can be cleaned up properly.
This is the area where the tubes went. The hoses just slipped into the tank here between the filter and the side of the light hood. The tubes where long enough, it just seemed to work well.
My solution is to simple – put a long deck screw in so I can affix the tubes to the screw so they won’t fall out anymore.
The water left in the tank got put into 2 large totes and a 5 gallon bucket. The Oscars are in one of the tubs. Brother is checking out the fish here.
The tank is sitting on some saw horses so it’s out of the way. I moved the base aside just to get it out of the way. The tank can set on the saw horses just fine while the carpet dries.
The room gets a little bare with the tank missing.
The tank hopefully get all put back together tonight.
This last week, I was tasked with cleaning the spare bedroom. I kinda got distracted a bit by the fish tank and planter stand in it.
I worked on my planter stand a bit more while cleaning the room some too.
I had gathered all the parts I had into one stack. I have a pretty good pile of tubing, couplers, spray nozzles, drip nozzles and all that fun stuff. I added some spray nozzles to the long planter box I am trying to grow lettuce in. I wasn’t getting enough water into the container otherwise.
You can see how it all works in the video. I just have to keep water in the 45 gallon tank, which isn’t a big deal.
This is the water pump with the tubing connected directly to it. I had to heat and pull on the tubing to make it thinner so it would slip into the pump. Otherwise the inside diameter of the tubing match the inside diameter of the pump. I get a little less water volume this way, but the 1/4 inch hose restricts it so bad anyhow that it’s not a big deal.
My little 1/2 or 5/8s to 1/4 inch adapter. It’s ugly, it leaked, but it works. It was originally designed to be hooked up directly to the pump, so it didn’t matter that it leaked. But the 1/4 tube has so much flow resistance, that I decided to bring the water to the plant stand in the thicker tube, and then reduce it down. 
I don’t need to glue it to the plastic tubing. It seals well enough as is.
And, an african violet that my mom gave me about a year ago.
