lanced

I lanced the boil this day.
Ok, I sucked out most of the water. I put a hose up there and sucked
as hard as I could on the end of it. In an attempt to create a
syphon. Alas, I must play more hockey and racket ball and maybe
install a small vacuum motor in my chest. My second attempt came from
the idea of the neighbor, Mark. He suggested submerging the hose
completely and then plugging the end I pulled out which would prime
the pump as it were. I stood in the sun wrestling with the hose in
the 38 degree temperatures, twisting and tugging trying to get it to
coil so I could feed it into the water. It was stubborn and
untrained. I gave up. Back down the ladder to the side walk, in and
out of the house 2 or 3 times, a dry to wet-vac conversion, and some
duct tape later the hose was attached to the vacuum. Wee! It sucked
it right down the hose. As the tape decided to stick very well to the
joint I unplugged the vacuum from the body and watched it drain into
the alley. It took an hour to drain what this method could do. I then
poked a hole in the very bottom and drained the rest into a 5 gallon
bucket perched on the little giant. Finally, from abve I cut with the
very sharp blade of the leatherman, the part of the rubber that was
once the boil.
I finished the layer of insulation in the warm room and moved some
things into the house.