I'm feeling kinda dirty tonight. No, not like that. I've been out working behind the house. "The boss" wants a yard installed. I'm almost done with the sprinkler system. I glued up the last bits of main line tonight, and all that remains is to install a final hose bib. Then move one head. And run the wiring. And install the clock. And install the drip system. And get it inspected by the city. Okay, so I'm not that close to being done.
Zen and the art of sprinkler-system maintenance
A professionally designed sprinkler system, I have learned, contains a carefully calculated wrong number of parts. Inevitably, you are waist deep in odds but continually running out of ends. Especially elbows. There's a universal law stating (quite emphatically) that you will only ever buy half as many elbows as you really need. No matter how careful your counting, how accurate your plans, how many times you go to the store, you'll always come home with half as many elbows as you need.
I have also become a Zen master of blue glue. I achieved that nirvana by ascending the six stages of blue glue consciousness.
- Stage 1: Get it on your hands and discover it's a pain to get off.
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