Dana recently prescribed an in-house faucet replacement, and today was the deadline. <\/p>\n
In 1922, the Town House was a very modern residence. Featuring four bathrooms, it was meant undoubtedly to be a showcase for indoor plumbing. Fast forward to 2007, and now we face dealing with four sets of 85-year-old pipes, valves, and fixtures. Although we both detest it, Bruce has more patience when it comes to tackling this sort of thing than I do. \u201cKicking and screaming\u201d barely does justice to my attitude. <\/p>\n
Plumbing for new construction is a trade I can somewhat comprehend. On the other hand, there\u2019s a guy out there who we almost had to call\u2014the kind of guy who would willingly crawl under the sink of a house built when Warren G. Harding was president.<\/p>\n
On the Saturday before Christmas.<\/p>\n
For money.<\/p>\n
We all recognize, humorously, that there\u2019s a bit of the exhibitionist in most plumbers<\/a>, but what kind of freakin\u2019 masochist<\/strong> would make his living repairing plumbing in old houses?<\/em> (Brendan might have used some variant of fuck<\/a><\/a>, but, trust me, I would never allow a word like that to appear in my blog.)<\/p>\n A beautiful basin with a big pitcher of water\u2014not a bad notion of civilized living\u2014until some twisted devil invented threaded pipes and called it progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dana recently prescribed an in-house faucet replacement, and today was the deadline. In 1922, the Town House was a very modern residence. Featuring four bathrooms, it was meant undoubtedly to be a showcase for indoor plumbing. Fast forward to 2007, and now we face dealing with four sets of 85-year-old pipes, valves, and fixtures. Although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,33,35,66,12,18,38,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![there\u2019s a bit of the exhibitionist in most plumbers<\/a>, but what kind of freakin\u2019 masochist<\/strong> would make his living repairing plumbing in old houses?<\/em> (Brendan might have used some variant of fuck<\/a><\/a>, but, trust me, I would never allow a word like that to appear in my blog.)<\/p>\nA beautiful basin with a big pitcher of water\u2014not a bad notion of civilized living\u2014until some twisted devil invented threaded pipes and called it progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana recently prescribed an in-house faucet replacement, and today was the deadline. In 1922, the Town House was a very modern residence. Featuring four bathrooms, it was meant undoubtedly to be a showcase for indoor plumbing. Fast forward to 2007, and now we face dealing with four sets of 85-year-old pipes, valves, and fixtures. Although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,33,35,66,12,18,38,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www1.istockphoto.com\/file_thumbview_approve\/3076769\/2\/istockphoto_3076769_plumber_butt.jpg\"){kind=link}