I hope things stabilize for you dude!
It is very difficult to stay on an even keel while the world seems to be melting down around us....and we have Thanksgiving tomorrow and all the family drama that brings.
I hope things stabilize for you dude!
It is very difficult to stay on an even keel while the world seems to be melting down around us....and we have Thanksgiving tomorrow and all the family drama that brings.
Thanks. In this particular case, Thanksgiving will bring no family drama, because family departing the igloo recently (to be clear, wife is fortunately still here) is exactly what has at least temporarily restored my sanity.
I installed 2 bidets after a plumber refused the work. He said the cheap chinesium bidets tend to leak and cause lots of damage and he won't risk the hit to his insurance. The reason why I went to the plumber is that I could not get them installed without leaking in the first place, so his excuse checks out!
It turns out that the instructions given for the bidets incorrectly tell you to put a rubber gasket into the assembly backwards which caused the leak. Flipping it around fixed the issue - and I figured that out on my very last attempt before I threw them away.
I also put together a bassinet and a bed anchor to attach the bassinet to the bed as well as a baby rocker. Today I swap out shower heads and apply some touch-up paint.
Today I upgraded from an HDD to an SDD, replaced a problematic PSU with a new EVGA one, and used one of my bays to install one of those little storage drawers. I put it to immediate use by using the drawer to hold screws as I worked on the unit. At some point next week I'll reformat the HDD to repurpose it as additional storage -- for videos, pictures, and music. That'll be it for computer upgrades for a while (not counting peripheals), because the next set would be the Big Damn Upgrade (motherboard, CPU, RAM) that will require a lot more money than I'm comfortable spending right now. I also haven't settled on what CPU & motherboard pair I want. Something in the Ryzen family, perhaps one of the 7s. I'm fairly sure the PSU swapout solved a problem with hard resets I've been having, but I'm waiting to test it with Civ 6: despite having had it for nearly two years, I've never gotten to play a full game because of the power issue! So want to try the climate change/disasters expansion.
I installed a showerhead that I was sure was not going to work. The o-ring inside it had disintegrated and I got it in my head that the water pressure in the new flat was too low for this shower head. It installed just fine and proved my notion about water pressure was wrong. It doesn't even leak despite the missing o-ring!
I installed a hanging pot rack for some pots and pans, built a chest of drawers and also built a desk. Two more chest of drawers are on the way as well.
I have to go to my old apartment and try and lift dents out of the carpet today and also scrape tape residue from the windows from when I taped everything up due to wildfire smoke.
I have been in the process of moving for over a week and I have never been this exhausted and sore.
We're finally installing our replacement metal roof for the carport neefa roof.
It took a couple of weeks but the replacement wheels arrived for the screen for my bedroom window
The dents came out of the carpet just fine. They are still charging me for a brand new carpet because they can. At $300, it'll cost more to fight than it's worth and they know it. Rat bastards.
I installed a shelf in a shelfless closet and added zip ties to a garage door opener so we can attach it to our bikes with a carabiner. I did the same for a diaper trash bag dispenser that I latched to our stroller.
I have to find a hole in an air mattress and patch it, then add mission patches to my framed set.
I got these metal bracket things you pound into the ground right by a fence post, then screw it into the post. A couple of my posts in the back of my backyard have been rotting a bit, it seems.. My neighbour on the other side noticed it first and put up his own support structures.. My roommate did the same on our end, but that was a temporary solution. I ordered those brackets and put them in over the weekend. The fence feels a bit stronger as a result, but it can get very windy here... I think it will hold, but eventually I will want to replace those posts.
For whatever reason it was really hard to find these brackets. RONA said that they are discontinued.. but I was able to buy them on their website and have them delivered.. Nobody else seems to carry them either. No idea why. Maybe because it's seasonal?
I got these metal bracket things you pound into the ground right by a fence post, then screw it into the post. A couple of my posts in the back of my backyard have been rotting a bit, it seems.. My neighbour on the other side noticed it first and put up his own support structures.. My roommate did the same on our end, but that was a temporary solution. I ordered those brackets and put them in over the weekend. The fence feels a bit stronger as a result, but it can get very windy here... I think it will hold, but eventually I will want to replace those posts.
For whatever reason it was really hard to find these brackets. RONA said that they are discontinued.. but I was able to buy them on their website and have them delivered.. Nobody else seems to carry them either. No idea why. Maybe because it's seasonal?
I fixed my home LAN connection, which failed (again) sometime between Saturday night (or rather, the wee hours of Sunday morning) and yesterday afternoon.
(As soon as I saw @hobbsyoyo's most recent Raves-thread post -- when I logged into CFC from work last thing today -- I knew I had to get it fixed ASAP!)
Fortunately we had an old LAN cable lying around spare (after we got a WLAN repeater, my wife was no longer forced to sit in the kitchen with a hardwired LAN connection, just to use her work laptop), but one of the plug-latches on that one is broken, so it probably won't hold for much longer. A trip to the computer store may therefore also soon be on the cards (and then the Shopping thread, of course!).
This is the second LAN cable that's failed on me without warning in the last couple of years, though -- and I really don't understand why? The cable and plugs look to be intact, so what actually fails? Answers on a postcard...
This is the second LAN cable that's failed on me without warning in the last couple of years, though -- and I really don't understand why? The cable and plugs look to be intact, so what actually fails?
In the past month . . . I've replaced the pipes under the kitchen sink, added a water filtration system so that we go back to zero lead in our water (local municipality is right on the legal limit line), and added an outlet in my dining room while rewiring half my basement. . . lol
I bought an end table that came with horrible instructions. I have put it together with the side walls swapped and there is no good way to fix it. I will have to carefully measure and drill some holes to install the drawer guides. My mom helped me build it and we've gone back over the instructions a dozen times, we built it to the instructions but they were just wrong, in multiple places. We caught most of the errors as we went but this one critical fault is hugely problematic.
I bought an end table that came with horrible instructions. I have put it together with the side walls swapped and there is no good way to fix it. I will have to carefully measure and drill some holes to install the drawer guides. My mom helped me build it and we've gone back over the instructions a dozen times, we built it to the instructions but they were just wrong, in multiple places. We caught most of the errors as we went but this one critical fault is hugely problematic.
We fixed it. We took a ton of measurements and manually drilled pilot holes, then screwed the drawer brackets in. The drawers are not perfectly aligned, but taking the thing apart to swap panels would have likely meant destroying the piece and this was the best we could do. It's functional - which is all I care about - and you can only tell it's not perfect if you stare at it real hard. I am pretty proud that we managed to save it.
I bought a small chest of drawers for storage and to serve as a stand for my TV antenna and when I unboxed it, the top piece was broken. I contacted the seller and they shipped me a replacement piece which ended up being about a week late from when they said it would arrive. I unpacked the replacement piece only to find it too was damaged on the top surface though it was not outright broken. We decided just to build the damn thing and paint over the surface issues. I'm a bit peeved at all this and I contacted the seller to let them know the replacement piece was damaged but that I wasn't going to wait for another replacement piece.
In any case, this was the very last thing I built or fixed for our move-in. I'm happy to finally be settled!
I have no luck with bidets...one of the two I installed has developed an intermittent leak from the nozzles. It's not something that can be repaired as it's all made of plastic, I'll just have to replace it.
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