I think that I bent Figero outta shape with the..."now playing..caption." Tough! Boy o boy self, did you ever have your nipples corroded? I bloody well did tonight! They were so filled with crud and heaven knows what else that when I brushed them, they hung down like soggy carrots. I cleaned them off with "Kaboom" and to my dismay, they didn't look any better. Uh, you do know that I am referring to plumbing nipples don't you Self? Good boy...I was working on a bathroom sink and couldn't stop a leak or take one, so I undid everything and found out why. The nipples are the short pieces of pipe that extends out from a wall and small water cutoff valves are attached to the opposite ends. The short pipes were so corroded that I put them out of their misery by going to a mechanical prosthesis store and ordering new hardware. (Wished I could do the same for myself...my plumbing is about worn out!) Anyway, I replaced my nipples, new valves, purged the H2O lines and low and behold...the water pressure took a dive. #@%$&! color=#a52a2a Found what was wrong again and silly me forgot to turn on the master valve. No leaks, no drips, no errors.

Applying this little ditty to Pick 3, if you have a mind set to do an expert job on your numbers...this is good! Sometimes though when you are tired it's easy to overlook the obvious and get what the truck drivers call," white line fever." What has happened is that you are slightly tired and anxious to be done with your calculations and your subconscious kicked in. Though your mind has the best computer/calculator that you will ever use; it will fulfill that problem that you are working on 100% but during that short span that you are in a sort of dazed state...Everything else is shutoff from your conscious surroundings and you will have to go back and correct what was ignored...watermain in my case. Always check two or three times to satisfy what you believe is correct because it can be very expensive if you don't!

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