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Just got a water bill of over $500 (more than double the usual). Alarmed, I checked our water use and it's almost doubled.

So we have a leak.

There is nothing so relaxing as:
(1) Checking the water meter and confirming that yes, you do indeed have a leak. You're not a water hog.
(2) Turning off all your fixtures and seeing the water use drop to 0. The leak is in something easy to fix, like a dishwasher or a toilet.

Now there's the fun while everyone else is out of the house of turning on the fixtures one at a time until I find the culprit. Given that the studio toilet was making weird noises just last week, I already have my primary suspect, but I'm obsessive-compulsive so I'm working my way from the front of the house to the back, 10 minutes at at time, and it'll be another half hour before my suspicions are confirmed.

But if it *is* that toilet, it'll be the fourth new valve I've put in since 2008. That would be pretty appalling.

well, the big question is:where did the water go? Just down the toilet, is good news, but a leak in the wrong place godd do serious damage like mould in the walls

are 5 psts in a row already a Blitz ?

Dancing Wind wrote:

quibblemuch wrote:

Is that an apocalyptic observation or is there just some law that is going into effect?

In certain circles where posters are unfamiliar with how the US government works, there's a massive misinformation campaign that the government is switching to permanent daylight savings time. Or permanent standard time. They haven't quite got their stories straight. But they're absolutely certain that the government has lied to them, either way.

In reality, nothing has changed

Congress Cant Reach Consensus.

Not likely to pass this year and the bill dies when this Congress adjourns.

What's more cryptic to me is that Arizona is one of the two states that don't observe Daylight Savings Time. So TOZ's post is a mystery to me...

EDIT: Ah! Since all the states around them change and they don't, sometimes they're in Mountain time, and sometimes in Central. Or some such. Now I get it! (Don't know whether they make it all the way to Pacific, and our game just started up again.)

here in the European Union they held a online referendum if DST should be abolished wich resulted in 98% voting to get rid of it, now they discuss for years what to do with this and don‘t know how to proceed

aeglos wrote:

hi everyone,

still some familiar faces around, i see

how are you all?

only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D

AEGLOS HOW ARE YOU

Hi there,

hi everyone,

still some familiar faces around, i see

how are you all?

only 5500 pages? you could have done better :-D

today is my once-a-week office day, the rest is still working from home (we call it home office in Germany) as per company policy.
I can‘t say that I miss commuting 1.5 to 2 hors every day
Yeay for the Home Office

thank you all for the kind words!
Greetings will be passed on to Sabine.

AEGLOS

OH MY GOD

HOW ARE YOU

not bad actually.

how are you ?

some familiar faces still in here :-) good to see

only 5331 pages ?

and Hi to everyone else, of course

Hi there FHDM

thanks guys

Hi everyone,
I hope all of you are safe and healthy.
those of you who are facebook friends of my wife know, that she is in a battle with breast cancer at the moment (tumor shrinked 20% -good news).
thankfully my company has send everyone not directly in production into home office, so I can support her and the kids

How are you all, doing?
I miss the old FaWtL times sometimes

gaming starts soon

kids still awake and playing outside, usually I bring the boy to bed before leaving, now the wife has to do both of them :-/

John Napier 698 wrote:

John Napier 698 wrote:

About to vlovk out. Good night, everyone.

My finger slipped.

Hello, everyone.

It's ok. Every now and again, I feel like vlovking out as well.

It might not be a word yet, but it needs to be.

and I like it, I like it

aeglos wrote:

is celestial Healer still around ?

did bitter thorn showed up ?

I have not seen bitter thorn in some time.

CH and I hung up with Patrick and Solnes not long ago.

yeah, I know - I have seen the pictures - on facebook :-D

tonight a new player will test our friday group - let‘s see how he fits in

the cor group is pöaying each friday for more than 30 years now, I joined them 25 years ago

hi Drejk,
how are you ?

is celestial Healer still around ?
did bitter thorn showed up ?

aeglos wrote:

it has been a long time since my last post

I hope everyone is well and kicking and some of the old gang are still around who remember me

I’m old, and I remember you, but I’m not part of the old gang. Does that count?

Ooh, I’m even in Europe, though I have no Playmobil! :-(

Hi NobodysHome,

hi everyFaWtL

Hi Freehold,
yeah it was a great trip 5 years ago

I saw pics of your night out with Patrick and CH

it has been a long time since my last post

I hope everyone is well and kicking and some of the old gang are still around who remember me

Hi Every FaWtL

Frohes neues Jahr from Germany !!!

Happy New Year EveryFaWtL !!!

I hope you are all well and kickin'

The Treeford has been closed down :-(

hi everyone,

still alive and kickin
crazy busy with work and kids and house and wife and life

I hope all of you are well

hi FHDM

second point:
kids have a lot of freedom.
iwe expect kids at age 7 or 8 to take public transport alone and at age 10 to go alone to be unsupervised in a public swimming pool - in canada apparantly not

aeglos wrote:

my baby girl can say "baabaa" now - thats me, papa is german for daddy

Baba would be grandma (or old woman) in Polish.

Yes, Baba Yaga is a Grandmother/Old Woman Jaga (which is a shortened form of one of multiple names - usually Jagoda [Berry] or Jadwiga).

but she means me! me!!!!!! me alone ! I am here first word :-)

my boy trained his sister to howl like a wolf on command

hi everyFaWtL

long time no see, very busy with work and kids

my baby girl can say "baabaa" now - thats me, papa is german for daddy

next week I will be best man at a wedding - first time ever, I am returning that favor for my best friend he was my best man 5 years ago

hi everyone,

very busy at the moment. I hope everyone is well and doing fine

argh, changes

aparrently I have whoopimg cough, thankfully my kids are vaccined against it

Orthos wrote:

I am counting the days until my nieces are old enough for me to run a game for them. One is about to turn 6 and the other will be 1 in May. It'll be a while.

Nonsense! I started playing with my kids when they were 7 and 1.

That said, don't expect a lot of progress, take frequent breaks, and dice big enough they won't swallow. :-)

my 4 year old loves rolling my dice and plays with my dragon mini, whnen I was painting minis he sat next to me and "painted" a plastic mini with one of my brushes and some water as "paint"

the seed is planted I think

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

Storyteller Shadow wrote:

LOL.

We've always been a dirty bunch at our table.

Hardcore gaming for 3 hours and 2 hours of dirty jokes and wacky stories :-)

Sometime I can get 4 hours of gaming in if I impress upon them the fact that at some point we are going to grow old and die so I'd like to get campaigns to a conclusion at some point!

The 11 year old daughter of one of my players is part of our group now. We have to watch our language and the dirty jokes are right out.. lol.

*note: I thought she was 13 until this weekend. That's about the age my son began gaming with us, too. He no longer gets to sit in with us because of his job and the rock band he travels around in. Which is a shame, because now we'd be able to tell dirty jokes around him now.

when the son of one group member turned ten we gifted him with a players handbook (2e I think) now he is 26 and last year he joined our group as a regular

scint,

I hope you and your students come thorugh this Ok, My condolenses

I have just survived my boys first kids birthday party

we strictly followed the german rule of thumb:
age of the birthday child = number of kids to invite

hi Patrick,

I hope you had a great time with your grandchild (the fb pics surly looked like you had)

Treppa,

that sounds terrible, please be careful and don't risk a blood poisoning

heal welll

merry belated christmas Americans (because christmas is the 24.th in Germany)

the boy got a playmobil police station from the christchild, I had blast assembling it :-)

uh oh, full diaper face...... I have to go

yesterday (thursday) was my last day of work in 2017, and wife and I went and saw Star Wars - our single movie evening of the year

all presents are rapped and well hidden, grocery shopping for holy-evening is done

christmas tree is standing and decorated (a small one, on a table - toddler save)

we have snow.
the third time this month, that is really unusual for my area

we had a nice walk with the boy on his sled and a bit of snowball fight

last sunday we babtized (right word?) the girl
which meant a bit of extra stress with a lot of family coming in

but all was good and well and we had a nice party

some very stressful weeks and work are behind me, organizing the build of a cardboard mock up model for a new production line in an empty building, organizing a "best project of the year" day with 400 attendends and organizing and moderating a week long workshop with 25 people from different countries (where we optimized the sonn-to-be-bought line with the mock up model)

now the weeks till christmas should be rather relaxed