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Gorgeous.

I need you to take up making bamboo fly rods. :-)

Bummer.

Please do DJ.  Please do.

Let's pick a Saturday to have you out here.  We can have some pizza and beers and take either the patio or the family room, depending on the weather.

Good luck with those Doug.  They can work miracles if you stay on them.

Seems awful.  How do you stand the pressure?

The problem with the kitchen sink is between the main stack and the kitchen sink.  We've had One Trick Pony (a national chain) out.  They give a six month guarantee.  They've had to come back two times during that guarantee period.  The run the same size snake down about the same length.  That's why I call them One Trick Pony.  They only seem to know one thing.  When it doesn't fix the problem, they do it again.  Perhaps improvement through repitition is for drains as well as scale practice. 

I'm going to call the town and see if they do the clean-out from the main sewer or whether I pay for that.  I think it's the next step. 

I haven't tried to fix the hose bib yet.  I will give it a go with the gaskets or seals or whatever they're called.  Mohammed at Home Depot usually steers me right.  I show him the part, he points to what I need.  It's been a good relationship for years.  I don't know if we've exchanged 10 words in the years he's been advising me.  My house is weird for gaskets.  I replaced a perfectly good gasket in a toilet with another perfectly good gasket, and for some reason that worked.  I could not detect one failure or installation error on the first perfectly good gasket. 

I haven't checked the fuses on the truck yet.  Just haven't got around to it.  I'm hoping that's all it is. I don't feel like paying someone to put in a new window motor, but I feel a whole lot more like paying someone to do it than I feel like doing it myself.  There's foam rubber animals that need holes in them to occupy my time.

Dishwasher leaks. 

Washing machine has a worn down gear.

Kitchen drain has been a problem for a long time.  They keep running a snake down it and saying there's nothing there.  Well run the darn thing further then because "nothing" doesn't stop water, and the only one that doesn't drain is the kitchen, so it's a partial clog somewhere between the sink and where the drain connects with the main stack. 

Everything else but the kitchen sink comes to the main stack elsewhere. 

Oh, and the hose bib on the front of the house started to leak enough to discolor all the brick around it.  So, now there's another water thing. 

And the passenger window on my truck stopped working, so that's at least an anti-water thing. 

All this in the last two days. 

- Zurf

Welcome to Chordie.

Amen.

Strengthening your core, a stretching regimin, and regular walks are all ways to help.  It sounds like you're doing those already.  I don't have anything to advise that you aren't already doing. 

The only possible knowledge source I would have you check with is a Physical Therapist.  They constantly deal with issues of increasing flexibility where it should be and reducing instability where it shouldn't be.  Yoga and Pilates are wonderful exercise regimins, but the advantage of a Physical Therapist is that they have the additional training on how best to torture their victims.  No wait.  The advantage of a PHysical Therapist is that they have additional training on body mechanics from a medical perspective while still knowing how to correct for improper motion like a good yoga or pilates instructor does.  Also, therapeutic massage may help when you are recovering from an attack.  You should go to Sweden for a massage and charge your insurance company.