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It's surprising how straightforward plumbing is, at least when it comes to easy tasks like changing taps. I'd thought changing an olive on a pipe would be difficult, it seems advanced, but it's done here, as the third option. As they say, there's a thousand ways to do something wrong but only one way to do it right.
Also, having taken off my old mixer tap it turns out it's one solid unit, so the leaking could only have come from the washers under the spout being worn out. Even the plastic under the tap, there for over twenty years, was fine, not that it being worn would have meant anything. I could have bought a box of replacement o--rings from any hardware store and saved myself the strain.
I'm playing Pentiment, a video game, unusually, about solving murders set around a German (Prussian? I don't know) monastery in the sixteenth century. It makes me want to read Daniel Kehlmann's Tyll again, which was great, although very dark. Life really sucked back then.
Three months of taking kefir and I can't say it's made any difference. On the other hand I poured alcohol down my gullet for many years. I also like the taste of kefir, so it's here to stay. My body odour may have improved, I hadn't really noticed it getting better, or just being normal.
On the other hand... as I said before, I'm not feeling as miserable as I used to. This morning (I'm editing this entry and wrote the above last night) I didn't feel the cold so badly. After my cold shower I ended up brushing my teeth with my top off and the window open. The indoor temperature was 11c so it was probably about 9 or 10 outside. It didn't last long but I could feel myself respond more quickly than usual when I turned the shower control to cold, that's something that's increased since I started kefir. It's not like I feel a current of warmth but I do feel something switch on, once I feel it I risk taking the shower head down and spraying my back. It was still rather bracing. I go on about cold tolerance a lot but being constantly cold seems to be a symptom of mine. Fatigue as well, that hasn't changed yet but it's probably making me less miserable so maybe it's improved a little, so slowly I haven't noticed.
Click to viewAlso, having taken off my old mixer tap it turns out it's one solid unit, so the leaking could only have come from the washers under the spout being worn out. Even the plastic under the tap, there for over twenty years, was fine, not that it being worn would have meant anything. I could have bought a box of replacement o--rings from any hardware store and saved myself the strain.
I'm playing Pentiment, a video game, unusually, about solving murders set around a German (Prussian? I don't know) monastery in the sixteenth century. It makes me want to read Daniel Kehlmann's Tyll again, which was great, although very dark. Life really sucked back then.
Three months of taking kefir and I can't say it's made any difference. On the other hand I poured alcohol down my gullet for many years. I also like the taste of kefir, so it's here to stay. My body odour may have improved, I hadn't really noticed it getting better, or just being normal.
On the other hand... as I said before, I'm not feeling as miserable as I used to. This morning (I'm editing this entry and wrote the above last night) I didn't feel the cold so badly. After my cold shower I ended up brushing my teeth with my top off and the window open. The indoor temperature was 11c so it was probably about 9 or 10 outside. It didn't last long but I could feel myself respond more quickly than usual when I turned the shower control to cold, that's something that's increased since I started kefir. It's not like I feel a current of warmth but I do feel something switch on, once I feel it I risk taking the shower head down and spraying my back. It was still rather bracing. I go on about cold tolerance a lot but being constantly cold seems to be a symptom of mine. Fatigue as well, that hasn't changed yet but it's probably making me less miserable so maybe it's improved a little, so slowly I haven't noticed.