June 9, 2005
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To all my friends who make fun of my PBS addiction:
I fixed the toilet at work today! Thanks to the many episodes of Ask This Old House I have watched weekend mornings, I have almost memorized the mechanics of home toilets. Since this is a small office, we don't have any shmancy commercial toilets, but a normal one that kept running and overflowing. With the knowledge I gained from ATOH and a butter knife I was able to stop the leak and thus stop the overflow. I RULE!
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major props Katy! I have one question thought... did you wash the knife after you put it in the toilet?
No. I threw it away when I was done. You can't wash toilet water off....it is always there.
it's so true, could you imagine watching on of your co workers butter their bread at lunch... maybe if it was someone you didnt like... but I think even the GEneva convention has rules against using utensils that have been in the toilet. good job!
Well, I'll just have to classify them as "enemy combatants" in my "war on ignorance" and then I can do whatever the hell I want, right.
Katy, you've won. I went to comment on scott's blog and ended up having to set up an account on this thing. So i may or may not end up with a blog. we'll see.
Oh, and so my toilet leaks, it's a problem with the internals not a crack in the porceline. Basically, if you don't use it for a while the bastard starts to leak from the top. is that a screw or something that needs to be adjusted? I'm guessing that since the time frame/sounds makes me thing that even though the bowl stops filling the well in the back keeps on going. answers of mighty queen of home repair?
I really like the track 'Galvonize' by the Chemical Brothers and it inspires me to clean and fix all sorts of things, but I don't think I'd be brave enought to fix a permanet fixture like a toilet or shower or sink. That's why god gave us the yellow pages and white out and scotchtape on the 9th day (because lets face it, he took a long weekend after creating all of creation and crap all week.)
I said something to one of the guys in my office about god (with specific lower-case 'g') creating sellotape (what the brits call scotchtape) on the 9th day and he wanted to have this big philospophical/religous debate, as he is apparently v. religous and of course, like any good LSC student, I was totally ready for it able to call up all sorts of stored information that I didn't realize I still had in me and totally won the whole thing, but now all he wants to do is talk about f-ing Christianity and blah blah blah one true god blah blah blah. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... My own fault? Probably.
In unrelated news I forgot to resend that chocolate so I did that today to 123 and a book I think you should read, if you havn't already. I also recommend 'The Ninth Life of Louis Drax', which was tres excellent (which is french for v. good).
xx
that's HOT! you do rule.
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