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my toilet exploded while i was eating lunch today.
me and gilbert were sitting at the table and we started hearing bubbling from the bathroom...not a good sign.
Then it just started spewing up water for like 30 minutes. it was alot of water. luckily i was able to dash upstairs for towels and make a wall at the door before it spread out of the bathroom (it got pretty damn close though)
When the house was built, they used cheap plastic plumbing out in the yard. cheap plastic plumbing which can be infiltrated by roots. so the water cant get out. so when the shower/laundry/whatever sends down too much water, it decided that overflowing would be a good idea. now we gotta get the pipes replaced with ceramic pipes or something like that.
we're gonna have a pretty yard, with huge parts of the lawn dug up like 6 feet deep.
after that i dropped gilbert off and went to hebrew high. im taking class about matisyahu.
for those of you who arent in on the Orthodox Jewish raggae scene, hes a Orthodox Jewish reggae musician. its pretty crazy.
after that i watched what was quite possible the most painful 20 minutes of football ive ever seen. the bengals just schooled the panthers defense to tie it 7-7 in the second quarter after they had been getting completely shut down. apparently they later lost; i was hanging up in the air at the time.
after that painful experience, i went to the climbing gym to strip.
holds, you sick bastards. the comp is next weekend, so it was time to start stripping all the holds. This was the first time ive stripped on a rope, and of course i started on the rad wall (part of wall for led climbing - google it. basically, as far as this story is concerned, it means there wasnt a rope going up an obvious line which i could just use to go up.)
we had to set up the rope ourselves and hook into quickdraws (google it) and pulling all kinds of weird shit to get around. then as we took off holds we through them down to some crash pads on the ground. trying to get around 40 feet of the ground with just an ascender and belay device was probably one of the hardest things ive ever done. my legs went numb about a dozen times - when i lowered myself back to the ground, i put my legs down to stand up. i failed. they wouldnt hold any weight. i had to lower my ass all the way to the ground and sit there for a couple minutes until i could stand up (and then a few more before walking). i think im gonna have to buy a nice padded harness.
i might go back to strip some more tomorrow...but i leaning away from it. i dont really know when i would be able to do it, and im not sure if the other guy would be there. im not real sure i wanna be messing with that without someone who really knows what hes doing. im also completely exhausted and probably gonna be really sore tomorrow.