Long time no blog

Well it has been a long time since I put anything down in this blog. I either haven't felt like it or just put up latest happenings on Facebook. Well there isn't anything happening around here real exciting, work and adjusting to the new house is about all there is.

Right after I moved into the house, I found a leak from the upstairs bathroom down into the downstairs bathroom that turned into a real pain to fix. There is a warranty on the repairs they made for 1 year from date of purchase. I read the instructions on what to do, followed them and didn't hear back from the construction company for over a month. It was only when the broker that helped me get the house called the realty company I bought it from and told I'd be contacting the BBB as well as the government agency that paid them and told them I was being blown off did I get any response. So they finally got on the ball and sent a plumber to find the source of the leak which he thought was the spout in the bathtub. When you turned it on and started the shower you could see a stream of water running down the wall, turned out to be a bad O ring in the spout. What he didn't do was cut a hole in the ruined ceiling in the downstairs bathroom to make sure nothing else was leaking, which there was. After they installed all new dry wall you could see there was still a leak from some where and that was the toilet. There is a clamp that's used from the toilet to the 3" pipe below it and it wasn't tightened down at all. So each flush and water would run out of it and all over the ceiling below. It's all fixed now though and I've been checking all week and don't see any signs of a leak.

My race car didn't end the season very well either. I discovered a problem at the Labor day race and had to park it for most of Sept. When racing started up again I thought I had the problem fixed but the car just ran slower and slower so I parked it and I'm taking the engine out to make sure there's nothing wrong there. What happened was the car went from running 11.40's to 11.90's, 5 tenth's of a second lost somewhere. If the motor is fine, which I think it is, then the torque converter in the transmission has broken. I was planning on replacing it if possible next year because it wasn't right for this engine. I just need to find the motivation to go out in that cold garage and get to work on it, lol.

The weather here the last couple of weeks has been cold and snowy. We had a storm a week ago that dropped about 8 inches of wet heavy snow that broke some branches on my tree in the front yard. It actually broke branches on trees all over town, some pretty big ones too, but the one's on my tree weren't that big.

Well that's about all from here, have a good day!