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I'm not sure "haulage" is a word, but who's going to argue with this guy?

I'm frustrated with browsers. I was adapting to Safari but a few nights ago it started getting all buggy when loading Blogger. The graphics are messed up and there's no "New Post" button - among others gone AWOL. So I'm going back and forth between Safari and Firefox, which I only abandoned because the latest version kept freezing up on me. 

Tonight when I opened Firefox - voila' - Colorful Tabs shows up. Prior to this it wasn't compatible with this latest version. So have they debugged the other issue? And does this mean I need to bring my bookmarks over from Safari? That's a pesky task. 

Today at the French open the World's #1 ranked woman, a Dane named Wozniaki, beat a Canadian woman named Wozniak. Something's wrong here.

I really don't like plumbing jobs. I'd rather do 10 electrical jobs than 1 plumbing, but I won't turn them down. So this afternoon I went to a house where the bathroom faucet was leaking. The 84-year old woman had tried to utilize the shut-off valves under the sink but as soon as she turned them closed they started to leak even worse than the faucet. So she hit them with a hammer. 

After that she had to get the neighbor's landscape guy to turn off the main valve outside the house and she went to stay with her daughter in Mesa. 

I replaced the bad shut-off valves and the rubber washer on the hot water side. As soon as I took the handle off the cold water side I suspected that was the one leaking; it was corroded as badly as any faucet I've seen. Sure enough, it was as good as welded in place. Wrenching on it any harder would probably have broken the faucet, and that would NOT be good!

The good news: this is the guest bathroom with a double sink setup and she never has guests. So she agreed the best thing to do was use the other sink if the need arose and leave the cold water shut-off closed on the offending sink. 

Here's a video that was taken by Michelle 10 days ago, on Sunday afternoon after church.

How 'bout the way my daughter does a clean-and-jerk at the front fender?! And in a dress! If she weren't such a sweetheart I'd be afraid of her. 

Since then I've stripped everything off the body inside and out. All the glass is removed, all the rubber seals, all the dash gauges, door hardware, every wire...

I talked to the paint guy this afternoon and I'll take it out to him this weekend, maybe Monday. He originally told me it would be months, not weeks. But today he said he's rearranged his work schedule and it will be done much faster than he originally said. 

I'll have pics of her current condition, probably tomorrow night. I got home from that plumbing fun too late to get them tonight.

Can you say The Lord's Prayer from memory? If not, why not?

I drained all but the bottom 10" of water out of the lily pond. Then, with Pam's help as the designated herder I managed to catch all but one of those monster goldfish. I think the filter system can keep up with his output. The rest have gone the way of all flesh. Good riddance. The pond has been refilled and tomorrow, after the chlorine has evaporated out, I'll put the mosquito fish back in.

I'm tired. Plumbing takes it out of me.