Poot's Palace

I installed one last night at my house but was very wary before beginning the small project after reading Lawton's blog about his numerous trips to Lowe's. As best I can assume, Lawton's garbage disposal needed to be installed on the same side of his sink where the p-trap and drain line is located and thus required a little more re-work of the existing plumbing. This would be the only logical explanation as to why he needed so many trips. I was lucky in my installation. I need only a 12" piece of pipe with a flange on one end. After I removed the old drain and drain line and installed the disposal I needed only to shave about a 1/4" off the end of the pipe to retro-fit it to the existing drain line on the other side of the sink. The only difficult part was squeezing my fat ass under the sink and wiring the damn thing. I already had a switch and an insulated two-wire connection under the sink, but there was not enough wire to make a connection to the disposal. Already knowing this would be an issue, I permanently borrowed some shielded four-wire cable from a job-site yesterday afternoon and just put electrical tape over the tips of the wire that I did not need. A few wire nuts and much more electrical tape later, I had a finely nigger rigged electrial connection that appears only to have a flaw due to the excessive amount of wire under my sink. It's my sink, my disposal, and I don't really give a shit if it wouldn't pass an electrical inspection, the important thing is that it will pass small chicken bones and leftover food. Next up, a dishwasher.

My week started with a 7 am phone call on Monday morning from a man covered in tattoos from head to toe informing me that some of my employees were a no show over the weekend to do work. My employees held the keys to the building that the man covered in tattoos needed to get into to do work. The tattooed man is a subcontractor that I use quite frequently, yet still would rather not piss off. Since, that point, my week has gone drastically downhill and it is just Tuesday. I was out of the office pretty much all day until 4:15 (read "i didnt get shit done and only started being productive at 4:15). However on my drive back to my office there was a billboard on I-85 North in Charlotte and it read "i pooted". Thats about all that has made me smile this week. And to top things off, Clemson was just eliminated from the CWS. Can't we just fast forward to the weekend and try this all over again next week.

Now that we have experienced a few extremely hot and humid days I have proof that my A/C does not work as it should, and as I figured when I bought the house. When I purchased the house I did request a 1 year home warranty which I received. Here is my question... should I purposefully cause my compressor to blow and cash in on the home warranty and request that my company replace it, or just tell the bossman that my A/C isnt working properly and risk having to actually purchase, at a discounted price, a new system. My house didnt reach below 80 degrees during the day on Saturday and Sunday, so I know I have some issues, but I am not completely sure that the system is so bad that it would be codemned quite yet. What is the current punishment for insurance fraud by the way?