Exercise

While I'm still a little sick, I'm mostly recovered now.

My stamina, I found out yesterday at the mall, isn't very good after being sick for a bit.

Oh, yeah, did I forget to mention that I was sick?

I started feeling feverish and then getting chills, I couldn't sleep and my back ached horribly and my skin was hypersensitive. I was wonderfully miserable.

After a couple of days of this and normal OTC medications not helping my fever much Siew took me to a doctor who gave me some anti-biotics and some pain killers. I don't know what either type was (that's something else done differently here than in the USA.) but they helped at least somewhat.

Anyway, back to my other tale.

This morning I decided to use my in-laws elliptical machine for 20 minutes then did some stretching, which felt nice. After I showered I started to feel shaky so I was going to fry a couple of eggs to eat.

When I went to take a skillet out from under the sink but found that all of the pots and pans had water in them.

It turns out that the sink drain was leaking.

Further, it's leaking because no one ever glued the PVC piping together the way it should have been.

I cannot stand half-assed jobs. If you're going to do something, do it until it's done right. Even if you're going to mess something up, say a country, AHEM BUSH, then mess it up right, instead of half-assed. FUCKTARDS.

Luckily there is a plumbing supply place across the street from their shop/home.
I had thought about putting a T in place of the 90 degree elbow and putting a screw-cap on top of that in order to access the pipe to clean it out. However, when we went to the supply store, with Siew translating, they said they didn't have something like that. I was shocked. . I know they have things like that for PVC pipe!

After Siew's dad left to deliver some wholesale goods I set to fixing the drain. When I took it apart the pipes were full of greasy sludge. . . The maid is supposed to run hot water down the drain frequently to keep that sludge from building up, but she does not. Siew's dad didn't want the drain glued together previously because of this problem. He'd take the drain apart and clean it once in awhile. . . apparently he doesn't do this anymore as he gets older.

The drain also has traps for both sinks that should be unscrewed and cleaned once in awhile. . . no one seemed to know that those pods were drain traps though.

So, I cleaned up everything, which was a nasty mess. When trying to put the traps back together I found that one of them had been glued together by Siew's father (we think) in order to hold it together.

Siew went and got a new sink trap from the supply place. I was able to get it to work, just barely, with the old piping (which is all poorly designed and really needs to be rebuilt to allow for gravity draining).

At one point I was talking to Siew about the elbow and things and she decided to try checking the plumbing store again. This time she was able to explain closer to what I was trying to ask for and get a T and a cross with a drain. When she brought them back I described what I needed and she returned shortly later with exactly what I wanted.

I put everything back together with some trouble, things have been torn up a little by other people taking apart and not putting together correctly the drain pieces.

This time it's all glued together, and there's still access to clean the drain out if needed. No leaks, and I scolded, via Siew, the maid. She really needs to run hot water down the drain more to keep it clear.