SPDCA: Fixing a toilet.
The metal lever connected to the flushing handle in the top of my toilet broke off. A few times, in fact, each time making the lever a bit shorter, but this time the lever broke enough that I could no longer connect the chain to the release in the bottom.
This left me with a metal lever, corroding where it sits below the water line. What I needed was something to extend it a little bit, and have some surface to hook the chain onto, as well as have that extender be a non-rusting material, and something that would clamp on to the remaining lever enough to survive a flush and refill.
My solution (rather than going down to Home Depot and buying what I can only guess is a $2 part), was to take a pen apart, use the pen's outer cylinder to wrap around the metal stump, and shove a large rubber band in with the metal stump to make sure the pen didn't slide off. Hooking the chain to the end of the pen (where it would normally clamp around your notebook, or pocket) worked well, as the tab on the end of the pen makes sure the chain can't slide off.
Now it flushes like a champ, at the added cost of a pen I stole from the barber, and a crappy rubber band that came with an Amazon package.
I win the prize.
http://www.tuckermax.com (www.tuckermax.com)
no images here that are nsfw, but the story content is borderline nsfw.
HILARIOUS, by the way. especially sushi pants.
From what I can tell, the current ballot count is not looking hopeful for Murkowski. What is the news saying in Alaska? What's the latest? I'm getting nervous about this.
I guess if Miller wins, I don't think I will be as adamant about not giving up my AK residency and license... So that might be helpful to me.
right now she has more votes than miller, including ballots that the miller campaign is challenging as a result of bad spelling or poor handwriting. we are all hoping that the unchallenged ballot count is more than miller's. if the current situation holds (unchallenged + challenged ballots more than miller's), then that will lead to lawsuits and a drawn out conclusion.
I was looking at some of the pictures on adn.com of the ballots that Miller's camp is trying to challenge.
http://www.adn.com/2010/11/09/1545759/vote-count.html (www.adn.com)
This is just ridiculous...
Even if those ballots which have been challenged don't stand, the percentages still favor Lisa. ~102,000*0.89=91,000 which is more than what Miller has. I also imagine those challenges will still go to Murkowski. I see very little momentum in the powers that be to side with Miller on much of anything.
Two questions.
How does anyone in Alaska even take anything Mrs. Palin says seriously. She bailed on the state guys! Seriously?
If you're going purely on looks, and keep in mind Lisa Murkowski looks like some kind of gremlin. Joe Miller oozes dousch bag. Every single picture of the guy does him no good. And on top of that he sounds like a total ass.
I really hope Miller gets eaten by a bear. He is wasting so much time and money with this, and now he wants a hand recount. Seriously? seriously. http://www.adn.com/...re-than-10000.html (www.adn.com)
I keep looking at webcams for the local mountains and dreaming of not being at work. I know I need to stop but its just too damn tempting. Almost, very nearly played hookey yesterday to go play in about a foot of fresh snow yesterday.
I know the longer I wait the better the snow cover will be, but avalanche danger increases as well... Damn.
I remember that I was with a couple people who were supposedly family of mine, though since I have no sisters they were definitely not real family. We went through some sort of spot in a garage, and apparently we had died. We were underground, running from someone in this "afterlife." We had to face our fears, and then we had to do something else that I'm forgetting, and we could return to the living. Once we were out, we had to stop some sort of war, and then we had free access to both the living and non-living realm, until one day someone came out of the portal-esque thing that we used to travel, told us we had to kill the red queen, that it was necessary or we would be pulled back to the afterlife forever, along with some others. It was more difficult getting through the portal, we had to go in headfirst, like a dive, and kind of push through the ground, like it was viscous. We were deciding whether or not to find the queen when I woke up. There were a bunch of other things that happened before we first escaped the underworld place, but I cannot currently remember them. Weird dream.
Also, not that it helps a whole lot, but apparently you can browse securely on idkfa via the following URL: https://secure67.no...ct.com/~idkfac/v3/ (secure67.nocdirect.com)
I have had problems with my ears ever since I was little. They randomly plug up on a regular basis - more often when I am NOT sick. When it is just one at a time it is usually tolerable. But when both are popping in and out together, I cannot even describe the pain and frustration... I have a hard time walking and talking and doing anything that required coordination, focus, or volume control.
Oddly enough, one of the only things I have found that helps me when my ears get like that is being really cold. If I get really warm it gets worse.
SPDCA: My neighbors consistently have weird shit in their yard, lawn, backyard, back deck. In the thankfully few times I've had to venture across the property line to hand over misdelivered mail, it's always been an adventure in tripping over bizarre things and awkward conversation.
Came home on Sunday to find the teenage kid and his friends had brought home a disembodied caribou leg and left it in their yard.
I was talking to my friend in Guatemala through IM the other day and she was asking me what I'd like for a gift from there. One of the choices was deer hooves as they're suppose to be good luck like rabbits feet. I think you should have nabbed the leg. If nothing else you could scare people during movie night with it. Or give it to a scary clown for Halloween. Maybe get it stuffed..
I went to Yosemite like three ago now... but anyways, http://picasaweb.google.com/lbrumbaugh/YosemiteTrip?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_I8dOu69-htwE&feat=directlink (picasaweb.google.com) has all the pictures I took there if peoples are interested in looking at purty waterfalls and sunshine.
At least it looks promising. And hopefully if the margins are high enough the Miller-time won't be a dousch and try to take every last hand written ballot in for a full review.
I seriously hate the recent precedent of huge legal fights over ballot counting. Its going to be pretty shitty here in WA this year as well I expect.
Best workplace training ever. Fire Extinguisher!
Not only was the guy doing the training slightly socially awkward but he basically did most of it in the form of anecdotes on where shit goes wrong and who in town uses what for what purposes.
The best part was we went out behind the building afterwords and got to play with some extinguishers. Granted they were water and CO2 ones. But still not bad in terms of fun at work. Apparently they don't light actual fires for us to practice putting out anymore ever since someone accidentally lit the side of a building on fire.
Pictures from the Libby and Lynda's 2010 Halloween Party.
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Here are some of them. I have more but I got tired of uploading them this evening. :) http://picasaweb.go...mp;feat=directlink (picasaweb.google.com)
Let's see if this works... Josh, don't get mad at me if this doesn't work.
http://picasaweb.go...mp;feat=directlink (picasaweb.google.com)
I don't have nearly as many, but there are still a few funny sign pictures.
I have it set to the "Anyone with link" status in the preferences section.
This is my URL:
http://picasaweb.go...RgCNyqhNbokcmtkgE# (picasaweb.google.com)
When I click on the "link to this website" link, it gives me these two links:
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I couldn't believe how many people showed up for it. It was terrific! I don't think they were expecting that many people either, though... They really should have reserved the entire National Mall. It really sucked that half of it was closed off. Did you ever hear what the final estimates were for numbers of attendees? I heard a lot of different numbers, probably due to the fact that so many people were squeezed out onto all the side streets. haha.
