Imperial Binary Liquid Measure.

I was first introduced by Knuth to the fact that the customary US version of the imperial systems for measuring liquids was a binary system. By 'Binary' I mean that there are names for each doubling of units. Of course, due to drift over time, disagreements, differences of law and so on, these have strayed away from what was once, at least in principal, a simple system. I'm writing it down here, because I can never keep it straight in my head. Oh, and naturally all of the units below are the liquid versions of those units that have dry equivalents:

Imperial Binary Liquid Measure
Unit Name	Usual Measure	Liquid Ounces
		2x	Number
Ounce	1 Ounce	0	1
Jack	2 Ounces	1	2
Gill	4 Ounces	2	4
Cup	1 Cup	3	8
Pint	2 Cups	4	16
Quart	4 Cups	5	32
Pottle	8 Cups	6	64
Gallon	1 Gallon	7	128
Peck	2 Gallons	8	256
Bucket	4 Gallons	9	512
Firkin	8 Gallons	10	1024
Kilderkin	16 Gallons	11	2048
Barrel	32 Gallons	12	4096
Hogshead	64 Gallons	13	8192
Butt	128 Gallons	14	16386
Tun	256 Gallons	15	32768

The system appears to break down for units under an ounce (although a Dram is tradionally 1/8 ounce), and for units over 1 Tun (which often weighs about a Ton) for which units of weight were used instead.

*SIGH*

I'm in the middle of shifting my hours around, so I woke up at 9:00 pm 'yesterday' and have been puttering around ever since. I can't seem to really wake up today, plus I've been getting these attacks of ravenous hunger when, without warning, I suddenly need to eat something NOW!

I was in the middle of trying to satisfy one of these massive hunger pangs when I stepped in something wet on the floor. The cat had been staring at that spot a few moments earlier, so my first thought was that he had upchucked (or done worse) in that spot.

No such luck. It was water dripping through from the upstairs bathroom. The noise must have attracted the cat. I went upstairs to see if anything catastrophic was going on up there, but there wasn't and I didn't really have time to investigate before my hunger drove me back downstairs to nuke a couple of knackwurst for a quick snack. While it was in the microwave, I put a large pan to catch the drips, but I'm not kidding when I say that the house would have had to have been on fire before it could have overridden my need for food.

After having eaten, and feeling just a bit better now that the hunger pangs have subsided, I took a look in the bathroom. No water per se, but there is evidence that the tile behind the toilet was wet recently (although it isn't now). Not sure what to make of all this, to be honest. I'm guessing that the seal on the toilet is going, but the water coming through downstairs isn't foul or anything, so I'm thinking there may be some other explanation.

Once previously when this happened, it turned out to be a bad seal between the drain and the bottom of the bathtub. I'd had a shower just a few hours earlier, so I suppose its possible something similar has happened. After all, we did have a (really minor) earthquake this week, so the house may have settled just that tiny extra bit...