I have been avoiding the replacement of a bathroom faucet for the same reason. The shutoff valves immediately below the sink don't shut off, so to replace the faucet I'll need to turn off the water to the entire house. I can do that, and I have the replacement faucet -- I'm dithering because I know that I should also replace the shutoff valves while I'm doing the job, but I have a nagging fear of creating a problem there that can't be repaired in one day.
Pretty much opposite of this thread, I un-bought a lot of things. By this, I mean I unsubscribed from a large stack of money drains. The kill list I remember so far: Hulu with Starz Masterclass Rattle Magazine Duotrope Io.folio Xbox Live Still looking for others, but that's probably around $600 or so to be saved yearly. It's a start. And been selling anything I can on Ebay. Just trying to make a solid down payment for an investment property any way I can.
I doubt they’re real leather, to be honest, and it’s lighter in colour than the image suggests, which pissed me off. On the plus side, however, the material is proper canvas.
My Fisher Space Pen just arrived (I was always going to drop the wonga at some point, why wait?). Anyway, it might just be the most aesthetically perfect ‘thing’ I’ve ever owned! Closed, it measures a beautifully compact 9.5 cm, and open, with the lid placed on the rear of the body, it’s a perfectly balanced 13.5 cm. Even the weight feels perfect. At just a little over 19 g, it’s not uncomfortably heavy, and yet still has that ‘heft’ which sets it apart from cheap or disposal pens. It’s only a ballpoint, albeit a high pressured one that writes upside down and under water, but it feels so good to write with too.
Ugh. I just did this a few months ago. Installation is easy, but slow. Balance is annoying tog get right, but critical.
Installation is included in the price here, thank god. Every decent bathroom in Japan has a sort of socket/tub thing to fit a washing machine. We've got to pay about $40 bucks to get the old one hauled away, but it's only fit for the scrapyard now.
A friend's debut poetry chapbook came in the mail today! Only problem is, now I have to actually read that copy of Plato's Republic that's been sitting on my shelf so I can get their allusions.
A new water main for my house. And this one isn't made of lead. Only took two years, three city inspectors, a backhoe, six construction dudes, two plumber dudes, and one street closure. They even put the lawn back together in one piece after digging a six foot trench from the street to my house.
This. I’ve just had it on my chips and couldn’t really taste much. It smells strongly of malt vinegar and not non-brewed condiment, so I didn’t want to over do it.
For once, not a pointless purchase bought for the sake of it. Might only get used for 10 days of the year, but I’ll welcome it, I’m sure.
No, according to the Amazon reviews it’s a retractable dog lead. You think I’m kidding but of the half a dozen or so of these things I looked at, this was the only one that didn’t have reviews for a different product. Apparently it’s a very naughty tactic employed by many foreign sellers, to get a positive front page star rating, working on the assumption most buyers won’t click through to actually read the reviews.
It's obviously a thermos for keeping your soup and beverages either warm or cold. Right? With a radiator grill on the front.
Oh man, Hell in a Very Small Place apparently went back into print. Bernard Fall was, as a teen, a member of the French Resistance (don't have the character set, sorry). He later went on to earn a doctorate in political science and wrote about the French (and briefly American) involvement in French Indochina/Vietnam. HiaVSP is probably his crowning work, documenting the construction and fall of the French strongpoint at Dien Bien Phu. This was the battle that led to the French loss in Vietnam. Fall is (fairly) unique in that he can bring the perspective of both a grunt and a scholar to his discussions of a situation. In one chapter he'll be explaining to you how a wrecked cargo plane on a bombed-out runway became a tactical strongpoint, and in the next he'll tell you about maneuverings in the UN security council. I read the book when I was in college, around 1997. I checked it out from my uni library a few years ago, it was falling apart, and it had last been checked out...in 1997. But Amazon has it new in paperback (after years of listing it out of print) so I BOUGHT THE FUCKER!!!! So happy....
Stupidly tried to buy a Stranger Things box set on Ebay. Ebay promptly closed the seller down, removed the item (non-existent apparently), but won't allow me to ask for a refund until it's had a chance not to arrive. We'll duh, it's a bit obvious it not coming isn't it? Plus side, I managed to get a copy of Stephen King's On Writing for a couple of quid.
This drives me insane. It’s the perfect example of the “Computer says no” world we now live in. God forbid a little common sense from a human being prevailed.
102.4 in the one of my offices above a main kitchen. Just swapped out the 5000 btu unit for a 10000. Down to only 81.3!
The one I got is just for my living room, it's a 7000 btu unit. Hopefully should be sufficient. If not, I'm posting in the Not Happy thread.
