Today felt like the first real day of my summer break since I have just recovered from a two week sinus infection and my mini-job of monitoring summer school ended last Friday.
So I was read to tackle a couple of items on my to-do list.
I watched a YouTube video on fixing a leak around the base of a toilet. I needed to fix the leaky toilet in the basement before I can get to Melissa's top priority on my list: Patching the tiling in the downstairs bathroom.
The YouTube Guy said that a plumber would charge me $250 to $350 for this job, but I could do it myself for about 20 bucks in supplies and ONLY 20 MINUTES OF MY TIME.
As I finished reattaching the toilet around 10 pm, I can now assure you that the YouTube Guy was full of crap.
What I learned on YouTube and what I learned over the proceeding ten hours (off and on) was vastly different. One was lecture and one was hands-on.
The lecture part was easy and I learned theory.
The hands-on part was gross and smelly but I learned reality.
So ... at least I learned quite a bit today.
(At the end of the day I am TENTATIVELY declaring victory over the leak. It is "tentative" because I know how these things go. I need a few days to confirm.)
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