Done! For my part.

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I did get out today.  I had to heat the house up for a good four hours to get going.  I got dressed right when I woke, so that wouldn't... slow me down or get in the way.  Anything CAN get in the way.  Now, I spent a good half hour digging of the hour and a half I spent in the hole.  The rest of the time was spent trying to negotiate very large rocks under the pipes.  I negotiated, they didn't.  I wasn't sure how much of a hole I really dug.  What I do know is with the care I was having to take with the pick-bar, pick, and shovels, so as to not damage a pipe, and having immovable rocks the size of my all in one printer, I finally had to call if off and just go with what I had.  It turns out I was able to do about three to three and a half inches of fill, at about three square feet.  It isn't the six inches I had hoped but it will do.  I put the rest of the gravel on top, so the thing is sandwiched a bit.  After I finished, I ran the hydrant for the first time, I believe. 

So, back into my home to rest a bit.  Dinner arrived a bit later.  I was telling my neighbor about the water issue in the kitchen.  I took him out, he turned it on, and... it ran like normal!  I was quite pleased.  I asked only that he not start charging for these house calls.  So, no need to mess around there.  I do need to get on laundry though.  And dishes, now that I can, if I can keep this roll going just a while longer.  I would like to wash the dishes, then clean the whole kitchen, then try to keep it that way until my mother arrives.  Well, I can dream.  I know I want to make menudo between now and then, at least.  And a clean kitchen with freshly washed dishes, pots, and pans, is an irresistible temptation for a gourmand who borders on the gourmet.  

My game is going well.  But the hard mode... well... you have two choices.  Go impossibly slow, saving and replaying each and every fight, or simply die and just get 'rezzed'.  I hate dying all of the time.  Actually, I hate games that force that.  I suspect as powers grow that this will improve, but... not by a lot.  And keeping any weapons in ammunition is nearly impossible.  So I end up using a drill type weapon... as a huge club.  It isn't my favorite game on hard mode.  Further, I am not sure I will get the trophy for doing hard mode.  Something seems glitched.  I didn't get either of the last two trophies that I earned.  I have decided to just play it through.  I will know I have done it and will just leave it there.  Irritating though.

Let me see.  A hole dug, gravel put in, the fellow with the back hoe called.  The sink "fixed".  That may have been from me running the hydrant, come to think of it.  Perhaps it allowed a pressure release that allowed the grit to settle back, drain down the pipe, opening the passage.  That sink has never flowed really well, and still doesn't, but it isn't a literal trickle, either.  Some laundry done, more on the way.  A showerhead installed.  Tools have been put up (never could find my small handsized garden rake and spade though).  Oh, and all the grains, plus legumes for nearly two years, arriving shortly.  All good.

Later, or maybe even good night.  I might make a few burritos, then hit it.  With blocks off my mind sometimes sleep is just easier.  I seem to no longer internally be "pushing".