So, I knocked one of my favorite earrings down the drain when I was getting ready for work yesterday. Luckily, I was done with the sink portion of my ablutions, so I just shut off the water to the sink and declared it off limits for the day. Borrowed a pipe wrench from the maintenance guys at work. When I got home I went to work on the u-bend. First pipe collar unscrews no problem. Start working on the second one, and the pipe it was attached to was so corroded it just snapped off in my hands. Called for a plumber to come in today and the estimate's over $500. Suddenly wishing I lived in an apartment.
At least I got the earring back?
Congrats, Laga! Exciting!
Congrats, Laga!
The meeting today didn't go as badly as I'd feared. Less yelling than usual, and I pretty much just waited until everyone else had reached a consensus, and then recorded it. Then we had a smaller committee meeting afterwards, to clean up a few loose ends, like coming up with alternate multiple choice answers for some of the problems we'd changed. Now I've just got to make all the changes in the file.
I am a bad person. Everything I know to do indicates that the refrigerator problem is the compressor. It was in my last two dead refrigerators, the result being that I waited for a repairperson; paid $100+ to learn it was the compressor; then bought a refrigerator and waited for it to be delivered. I decided to skip the middleman and just buy a refrigerator on sale. It would have been more responsible to have a repairperson, on the chance it was something like a switch, but I just could not deal. It's just one more drop in an ocean of debt.
The lack of frustration of dealing with a repairman is worth money, Ginger.
You're not a bad person, Ginger. You're dealing with a bunch of overwhelming stuff, and you have experience with previous refrigerator problems. No one's going to revoke your adulthood license, and furthermore, I hereby grant you a guilt exception for this new refrigerator.
