My new motto, that's heavily influenced by Elvis, is T.C.B. Takin' Care of Business, Baby (say baby in an Elvis voice). I'm really proud to announce that I fixed my P.A. (pressure assisted) toilet. Remember how it was really annoying to flush? Well, every time the weather changed I would have to adjust it and it's slowly been getting worse every year. It started to groan, hiss, and a seal was sizzling on the top of it. I tried adjusting it, looked up parts on their website, looked at fixing manuals, but I could only get parts from the manufacturer (much like Apple parts). I hate proprietary parts. I called them up and the guy was super nice. He said that my PA toilet had been recalled because of all the problems I stated above. He sent me a new one for friz-ee (free).
I got the new one today, which is a huge submarine thing that sits in the tank of the toilet, and decided to install it. I've been T.C.B.ing this week so I got on it. I spent a half an hour reading the instructions, going to the hardware store for a toilet bowl tank wrench, and installing it. I thought I did everything right except the new gasket between the tank and the bowl seemed a little large. I put the tank back on the toilet, made all the connections, turned the water on and flushed the toilet. The water spewed out between the tank and the toilet. What a mess. It just gushed out and splattered on me. I guess the gasket was too big after all. I couldn't see the gasket, to check the seal, because the tank is sitting on it . Water was everywhere. Luckily, it was tank water and not toilet water. It was like a scene from a bad comedy. I also bumped my head a couple times underneath the sink. Owch.
My TCB week doesn't end there... I installed more memory on three of my 'puters, and am selling all 75 or so of Marc's graphic novels. Which still kind of crack me up when I see them. They're all horror stuff with titles like, "The Walking Dead", "Hellblazer", and "The History of Violence" (which was made into a movie staring the guy from Lord of the Rings).
The puppy is named Travis.
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Keeping you up on the latest in internuts trends. This cracks my up. They're called LOL cats and they are really popular. Check out the website. Some are really stupid but some are hilarious. I don't know the history of LOL cats but there is probably an entry on wikipedia.
Because you were talking about the guy on Extras asking the dwarf if he could see into the second floor windows of his home I searched the internuts looking for pictures of midget homes. I didn't really come up with anything as far as pictures but I did find a very interesting article about an urban myth, San Diego, and a Midget Village.
Remember how I was telling you that as the summer turns into fall I always want to see scary movies and read scary books? Well, I knew that Zodiac was going to be a little creepy but I thought it would just be a detective story about the late 1960s and early '70s with actors with funny beards, clothing, and haircuts driving around San Fransisco trying to find a killer, boy, was I wrong. Zodiac was probably the best and creepiest movie I've seen in years. Wow. I could hardly get to bed. I was thinking about it all night and making up reasons why the Zodiac killer wouldn't come to get me so I could get to sleep. What was that? The wind in the trees or the Zodiac?
I think this picture gives the scale of how enormous and catastrophic the 35W bridge collapse was. Click on it to see a bigger picture. Also there's a link to the pics on flickr below.
My new motto, that's heavily influenced by Elvis, is T.C.B. Takin' Care of Business, Baby (say baby in an Elvis voice). I'm really proud to announce that I fixed my P.A. (pressure assisted) toilet. Remember how it was really annoying to flush? Well, every time the weather changed I would have to adjust it and it's slowly been getting worse every year. It started to groan, hiss, and a seal was sizzling on the top of it. I tried adjusting it, looked up parts on their website, looked at fixing manuals, but I could only get parts from the manufacturer (much like Apple parts). I hate proprietary parts. I called them up and the guy was super nice. He said that my PA toilet had been recalled because of all the problems I stated above. He sent me a new one for friz-ee (free).
