slept in until 10:30 this morning, then spent the next 20 minutes also in bed finishing a book.
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Had an interview scheduled for this morning at 9, wasn’t feeling peppy enough for it, grumbled about it to my husband, and then it was canceled!
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You’re welcome.
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Some people here actually like me!
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Symphony Hall on Sirius XM has been playing an extra helping of female-composed music this month in honor of Women’s History Month.
Well unfortunately that means that it’s disproportionately modern music since there weren’t many female composers 150+ years ago. And modern classical music is extremely hit or miss IMO, mostly miss. So unfortunately I don’t actually like most of the female-composed music they’ve been playing.
But right now they’re playing Jennifer Higdon’s Harp Concerto (composed in 2020) and I’m enjoying it very much.
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Let me know if you hear Alexis Bacon (maybe Alexis Barros), she’s a longtime friend of mine and a composer, teaches at Michigan State, I believe.
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Our ~30 year old bath faucet started dripping when it was shut off. We had plumbers come out today to fix something else in the basement and I asked them to take a look. Thankfully, they were able to get the stem out and just replace that. I want to remodel the bath and replace it, but not today! Should get us by until we are ready to do the whole room.
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It’s always the stem. $5 part.
Actually, for the truly frugal, it’s not even the stem. It’s a rubber washer held on by a bolt at the bottom of the stem. Unscrew the bolt, new washer, screw bolt back in, and done. I bought a whole kit of different sized rubber washer last time I did this, no more hunting around when a tap leaks.
It’s one of those funny things that’s probably difficult for someone to diagnose/repair until you’ve seen it done once. Then it’s like, why would I pay someone to do that.
Normally I’d DIY it. But work is a little crazy right now and I’m already doing two other house projects, so I just paid to have this done.
I replace the washers myself. It is a bit of a pain to get to it.
our bathroom sink drips. the shut off valves are super stuck. wd40 and hair dryer did not loosen them. so I can’t shut it off to fix (I could shut off whole house if I was really ambitious).
You need a bigger wrench is all. If it breaks, well, hell, it needed fixing anyway.
But yeah, I’ve been there with toilet shutoff valves. I’ve just replaced them all as I we renoed. Should be good for another long time,after which point it’s someone else’s problem.
For sinks, I install decent shutoffs now, not those crappy little ones with the oval handles.
I really like the blob art.
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I got a somewhat concerning preliminary diagnosis from a doctor, so I spent the afternoon today at the cardiologist. Good news: there’s nothing wrong with my heart.
The preliminary diagnosis was weird to me as I don’t have any symptoms of heart disease at all, and neither my family history nor my lifestyle suggest I would
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I’m pretty hopped up right now. I’ve been waiting for 2 years for a court date for a small claims case against a large multinational. Relevant…the lawyer representing me is a large class action law firm in the industry that the multinational is in. So draw your own conclusions as to what’s actually going on.
Today we got a court date and the multinational’s lawyers have already reached out to my lawyer. All of a sudden they’re acting interested.
I’m not going to hurt them, because David and Goliath. But I think I am going to give them a paper cut.
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Does the whole thing shimmy when everybody’s moving around?
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I don’t know what this means?