Inspired? Cursed? Drip-irrigation system

I'm not sure if I was inspired or cursed when watching my brother-in-law set up a drip watering system in his yard. I watched him and asked a few questions. Looked easy enough. I loved the idea of spending less time watering my plants, and conserving some water as well. So the day after returning from our vacation, I ventured to Home Depot. The first of many trips.

Now, after about a week of working for hours, spending a few hundred dollars (ouch!), recruiting Wink to help, hurting my hards and shoulders, making Wink bleed in various places on his hands, and multiple trips to HD, I have a new watering system for the yard. Much to my chagrin, some of the connectors between hoses leak in a high pressure spraying way. The sound of that leaking grates on me like fingernails on a chalk-board, since this was supposed to be a water SAVING venture.

I'm trying to hide all the tubing (since this is an above the ground system), with only minimal luck. Maybe next year I'll buy bark dust and cover the tubing over :)