Do they keep Yeti in Area 50, perhaps?

And vampires in Area 52?

Sorry I've failed to post in the past few days.  Things have been chaotic around my place.  Had another minor basement flood.  At least I'm getting good at repairing the damage from them.  I think this is the third or fourth one that downstairs bedroom has suffered in the past few years.

Of course, having to get into the access space for the plumbing on the shower (where the leak originated this time) meant going through my daughter's room, and that set off the ticking time bomb of "clean-it-or-lose-it," that her mother and I have been telling her for some time.  So not only is the basement a mess from having to clear out the room and tear out the paneling I put up (paneling instead of more drywall, since another flood was inevitable, in my mind... gotten soggy enough times now to know better), but the upstairs is a mess from all her stuff being moved about for sorting and disposition (keep, donate, toss).

Of course, it could be worse.  I could be the hapless soul who has to tend to the government's secret sites out in the desert regions of the western United States.  That mess makes my own household troubles look positively minuscule, by comparison.

Book Review: Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

It has nothing to do with Area 51 (or does it...  sinister government plumbing conspiracy?) but I LOATHE polybutylene pipe.  Some well-meaning soul plumbed our little one bathroom home with it at one point in the past, and now...  you breathe on the stuff and it breaks!  All I had to do was Google images of "polybutylene pipe leak" and I found plenty of examples that are consistent with my own experience.  / Source: GoodHouseBadHouse.com