Nose to the grindstone 2025

[Drunk Monk]

It's a feckn webinar from my emailblast program - meaning it's a long ad - but I can just half listen. I'm actually already sold on this program and hope YMAA will go for it. Waiting for the Q&A part...

[Greg]

Something something dance with the devil....

[Drunk Monk]

Yoga done. Got a day of work & housecleaning ahead of me. Gotta start nailing down details for SDCC. The KKUP Reggae Music Marathon kicks off at 6pm tonight. Then I pick up Stacy at the airport tonight.

[Drunk Monk]

Kung Fu done after an emergency run to the farmer's market to load Stacy up with supplies. She's a bit travel sick - came home with a head cold. I'm sorting some stuff for JAH Med - this is the weekend of Northern Nights, a big EDM fest that I've never done because I know I'll get addicted to it and I simply don't have the bandwidth to take on another annual festival this time of year. Nevertheless, the FOMO is real. 

Been listening to the KKUP Reggae Music Marathon at my work niche, even tho it's Saturday. My Mac's auxillery screen went out again and I've spent the last hour trying to reestablish the link. I'm starting to think it's not worth it. I need to sort my SDCC schedule and do some finance file updating, and I don't need the second screen. But still, it's annoying AF.

[thatguy]

My Mac's auxillery screen went out again and I've spent the last hour trying to reestablish the link. I'm starting to think it's not worth it. I need to sort my SDCC schedule and do some finance file updating, and I don't need the second screen. But still, it's annoying AF.

Try a different USB port. I've seem some Mac's sometimes decide that the monitor that was on port an isn't there anymore and chooses to ignore it no matter how many times you unplug/replug it in. It you try a dif USB port, sometime the Mac will be surprised and allow it. 

Also, try different USB cables. Video is high data thru out and cheap cables don't cut it. It also doesn't help that there are like 10 million different kinds of cables with the same USB-C connectors and they are not all equal...

Also, a reboot usually clears things up, but you shouldn't have to resort to that first...

--tg

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My old bedroom is nearly back online. When I moved out decades ago (pre-quake?), it was still painted the dark blue that I wanted when I was a kid (what I really wanted was a giant mural of the moon landscape that was really popular in the '70's and if I couldn't have that, I wanted black...with stars...I got neither and ended up with a slightly lighter than new denim jeans blue).

One wall had cork glued to it to make a bulletin board. At some point in my absence, my mom decided she wanted to breed show dogs and whelped puppies in there. She ripped out the ugly green carpet and just left the subfloor. As the puppies grew, the made puppy messes...ate the cork off the walls...chewed the door frames.

My mom later used that room as "the next store room" when all the others were at capacity. So I emptied it out earlier this year. I spent the last month prepping and repainting the ceiling and walls (I hate painting...I really hate painting...if I ever talk about taking up a painting project in the future, remind me how much I hate painting...)

I bought the same bamboo flooring that we put in my mom's room a few years ago. It took me a while to find a supplier that stocked something that matched. It cost about $1 more per sq/ft than when we did it before, but I wanted it to match. I hired the same guy that installed before and he came this morning and knocked it out in a day. There's a lot of touch up to be done, but it's on the verge of being furnished!

So happy to have that room functional again.

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Side story:
The bathroom on that end of the house has a Toto dual flush toilet that was installed when my folks redid the kitchen and their bathroom. It's had a slow leak forever and I've been trying to get the water bill down. I figured it was the flapper equivalent and ordered a new rubber washer-thingy that closes the gap to the tank...nope, still leaks. 

I ordered a replacement flush mechanism (which it a complicated piece of plastic technology). It comes in two parts. I swapped out the top part which easily unscrews a few turns and pulls out. Put in the new one...nope, still leaks. 

I'm guessing the bottom part that receives the closed seal probably has scale from hard water, or is just tired from age. Since I got that part with the above mechanism, I figured I'd do that next. Well, the toilet is right up against the wall and all the back access to the bolts to separate the tank from the base were inaccessible. So, I removed the toilet. Removed the tank. Cleaned everything and hit it with steel wool to make sure there was no hard water scale build up. Put in the new bottom part, but the gasket that goes between the tank and the bowl was pretty mangled, Sinai had to source a replacement part. Got it off Amazon. The washers on the bolts that hold the tank to the base were also pretty squished. Had to source those. Only found them as part of a kit, and only from a plumbing supply in New York. Ordered those. Got all the parts on Thurs. Spent Fri evening rebuilding the toilet. Cleaned everything and put the throne back in it proper place. Hooked up the water, did a couple flushes. No new leaks thankfully. The floor is dry...but...the bowl still has a constant trickle. There's a slight hiss and the fill valve fills continually.

I'm stumped. It the flush valve is working correctly and the fill valve is not, then I would expect the tank to fill to overflowing. The fact that the water is making it from the tank to the bowl means that the flush valve isn't sealing completely (or there's a crack somewhere)

Anyway, I give up after a valiant effort. I will turn off the water to it when no one else is at the house. One day I'll splurge for a new commode for the abode.

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

Good call. I’ve been getting it up by unplugging it from power and plugging it back in again. That usually gets it back after a few tries but it wasn’t working today. I just switched the plug (it’s not usb to my main Mac; it’s smaller but it was two outlets). Anyway, it came back finally. So thanks tg! Good advice.

[thatguy]

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

Ya know tg, DM is often mistaken for Tom Cruise, especially by women who are often mistaken for Nicole Kidman. 

Yeah, if only...

Well, my Sunday got flipped on its ass. Thanks pandemic.

The original plan was to work today as a swap for next Friday, go to yoga, then go to Tara's where we'd head to The Marias at the Greek, then back to Tara's, then home.

But now that the bungalow is covid positive, the plan is to pack for tonight and the next few days at svale - as well as SDCC (that's a big careful pack) - then up to Tara's then Greek then svale where I will stay all week until my wife heals. Possibly until I leave for SDCC on Thursday. 

And you know wha time it is, right?

[Drunk Monk]

Gotta get up in 5 hours and face 2 Monday meetings. Then theres work to do that I didn’t do yesterday what with the shuffle to svale. Then up to SF for a trailer screener & proper screener. Then back here to svale for another night.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Transiting home, still have to teach tonight. I'm at Hour 15 of a 24 hour day

[Greg]

Transiting home, still have to teach tonight. I'm at Hour 15 of a 24 hour day

That sounds like a terrible plan.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Prolly closer to 30 hours.

[Drunk Monk]

Yeti gone crazy

As Stacy said to me recently ‘You aren’t 29 anymore…’

[King Bob]

He can't do that. He doesn't even use Adderall.

[Drunk Monk]

No adderall
Prolly HIMS
For yetis…