So, I spent the afternoon (and a good chunk of the evening) monkeying around with plumbing. Yeah, that's right - plumbing. Well, it wasn't actually "plumbing" - it was more like "plumbing lite."
See, the idea of "plumbing" for me anyway conjures up mental images of large pipe wrenches, blowtorches and large long dirt trenches. I think of myself all sweaty, wearing a hard had and wiping the dirty sweat off my brow with a pair of leather palmed gloves. Yeah - that's man's work!
Cut to reality. Tonight, I did "plumbing lite" - We got a new fridge with an ice maker and I got to install 1/4" OD copper from the basement to our kitchen -about 8 feet worth. Problem was I couldn't get the @#$@$#$ fitting to stop leaking!!!!!!!
We took a trip to the hardware store for a soft line from the floor fitting to the fridge - and I took another trip for a couple of other neat doo-dads. If I were a "real" man I s'pose I'd know what they were. After the third (or fourth) try - it held.
Maybe we'll be able to enjoy the fruit of my manly labors as soon as the ice decides to freeze. I'm holding my breath on the fitting not leaking over nite.
Sure feels good to be a man!
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