BurningbirdThe sewer district system engineer is coming out this morning. It isn’t normal to have the problems we’re having. And last night, I didn’t sleep at all because the pipes, toilets, and plumbing were bubbling all night. I know this is nothing compared to people’s homes flooding, but it wears you down. Especially if these […]
According to Dictionary.com, triangulation is: The location of an unknown point, as in navigation, by the formation of a triangle having the unknown point and two known points as the vertices. When I studied history in college I had a professor tell me that the only way to discover the truth behind an event is […]
We have sewer problems where we’re at because Lake Saint Louis force main dumps into our O’Fallon gravity main directly in front of our neighbors. The line is overwhelmed, and gasses build up. I don’t feel a high degree of confidence when I see that the ‘tool’ they’re using to collect gases for testing is […]
This is my birthday gift from Roomie. Yes, it is as big as it looks. Over five feet tall. The choice of an elephant is because of my long interest in elephants and the Ringling Brothers court case…not as the Republican symbol. He didn’t give it to me to use as a punching bag. The […]
Learning Node, 2nd Edition is now in production and should be hitting the streets within a few weeks. We had a bit of excitement when Node 6.0 was rolled out, just as we entered production. However, this edition of the book was specifically designed to accommodate Node’s rather energetic release schedule, and the book survived […]