Sunday, January 06, 2008
Holiday's almost over
The trouble with this New Year Getting All Busy And Organized deal is that...it's boring to talk about. When the topics you have to work with are things like What Mike and I Carried to the Basement Today, it's hard to make them entertaining.
The Toilet Seat of Exquisite Evil continues to defy my attempts to make it fit right. On the plus side, I finally got the right size screws to replace the ones where the phillips-head slot got stripped out, and THAT'S okay now. But there is still a problem caused by the size difference between the 1/4" seat bolt and the 1/2" hole where it's supposed to go. I found rubber grommets, and they helped, but not enough. I think I am going to have to get a pair of the plastic bolts from an old toilet seat and drill a hole through them to stop the wiggle. Luckily, since we never throw anything away around here, I'm sure we have some...somewhere.
And now, for your viewing, um, entertainment--toilet pics!
Here I was trying to show the lovely metallic blue color, for those who asked. It's hard, because it's so reflective!
I think you can see the problem we are facing (well, okay, not FACING) with the seat not wanting to stay in position. You can also see the problem of me not having gotten very far with the renovation project yet.
I also have a report in Spam News, or The Dumb Stuff I Read So You Don't Have To.
The latest meme for spammers is to make one long subject line word, using three randomly generated terms. For the male enhancement type of spams, you get a name (strangely, both male and female), and variations on terms for the actual body part in question, plus synonym for words meaning 'big'.
As you can imagine, hilarity can ensue. The 'big' winner for today was:
ArnulfoBodypartCosmic
So far the only size term I've seen to beat 'Cosmic' is 'Bouffant'. The mental images this generates are somewhat disturbing, though.
The Toilet Seat of Exquisite Evil continues to defy my attempts to make it fit right. On the plus side, I finally got the right size screws to replace the ones where the phillips-head slot got stripped out, and THAT'S okay now. But there is still a problem caused by the size difference between the 1/4" seat bolt and the 1/2" hole where it's supposed to go. I found rubber grommets, and they helped, but not enough. I think I am going to have to get a pair of the plastic bolts from an old toilet seat and drill a hole through them to stop the wiggle. Luckily, since we never throw anything away around here, I'm sure we have some...somewhere.
And now, for your viewing, um, entertainment--toilet pics!
Here I was trying to show the lovely metallic blue color, for those who asked. It's hard, because it's so reflective!
I think you can see the problem we are facing (well, okay, not FACING) with the seat not wanting to stay in position. You can also see the problem of me not having gotten very far with the renovation project yet.
I also have a report in Spam News, or The Dumb Stuff I Read So You Don't Have To.
The latest meme for spammers is to make one long subject line word, using three randomly generated terms. For the male enhancement type of spams, you get a name (strangely, both male and female), and variations on terms for the actual body part in question, plus synonym for words meaning 'big'.
As you can imagine, hilarity can ensue. The 'big' winner for today was:
ArnulfoBodypartCosmic
So far the only size term I've seen to beat 'Cosmic' is 'Bouffant'. The mental images this generates are somewhat disturbing, though.
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