snakes on a drain
good news: framing has finally begun in the studio!
bad news: the kitchen sink backed up after dinner tonight. and of course i left my snake at our old place when we moved, so i had to run up to home depot and get another one. long story short, in retrospect i think the problem was only a few feet past the cleanout and was in fact fixed after a couple of quick snakings, but i ended up spending several hours getting filthy and trying to figure out why the snake keeps getting stuck further down, about 15 feet past the cleanout. at the time i thought this was where the problem was, but given that all the drains in the house appear to be functioning normally now, i suspect that this is either a red herring or one of those things that needs to be looked at eventually but not necessarily right away.
i originally intended to spend the evening doing more framing and getting the pics and details posted, but fate decided that a better way to spend that time would be covered from head to toe in sewer sludge. i was going to just put up the studio pics and stuff i currently have, but that'll have to wait until tomorrow -- i'm totally wiped.