Today has been the worst. I've had water leaking from my carport ceiling for 5 days... I thought it was the dishwasher I had installed recently, for sure, but then this morning I realized it was the kitchen sink faucet, which was also leaking a bit out of the handle onto the countertop. I thought it couldn't have been, because the area under the sink is bone dry, but I noticed just before the installer technician arrived (who I lit a fire under, they were going to come February 15th at first) that there was a little gap that had worn away in the caulking between the backsplash and the countertop, that the water pooling on the countertop was going into. From there it's been sliding down the back of the wall, into the cavity that the dishwasher is in, and through the floor. Once I shut the water supply off to the sink and soaked up the water on the countertop, it stopped dripping.
When the installer got here, they checked it out, it wasn't the dishwasher. But they were really nice and gave me some tips on what to do. I didn't tell them I figured it out because I didn't want them to charge me for the visit. But I'm gonna have pull the plywood off the carport ceiling and open it up to air it out, so it doesn't grow black mold.
So I went and bought a new kitchen sink faucet, and some clear silicone caulk. This will be the second time I've changed the kitchen faucet. But the nut that you tighten to hold it down, from underneath, is rusted and really tightly on there. And there is virtually no room to maneuver. I honestly don't remember how I got the last one off. I came home and try as I might, I couldn't loosen it. So I went back out to get a tool... it's a special kind of wrench for that purpose. Got home, and the fucking thing was too small. Then I reconnected the water hoses to the existing faucet so we could wash the dishes and make dinner and stuff, and now the hot water one is leaking. And the shutoff valve doesn't completely shut the water off. So now I have to wake up really early tomorrow and go BACK to Home Depot (where I got the faucet, farther away than the closer hardware store I got the wrench from) and hope I can find the right tool. And then hope the WD-40 loosened the rust enough, and that I can loosen the nut.
I've had so many water damage situations in this house. It fucking stresses me out.
This new faucet has all brass hardware and a nut design that will make it easy to remove again... it's also an upgrade of a faucet, I'm looking forward to being able to use it. Unfortunately, 10-11 years ago when I bought the current faucet, I guess they didn't think to make the shit rust-proof or easy to uninstall.
I've noticed in the past handful of years that all the plumbing-related hardware has been designed to use plastic or non-rustable metals for the parts that you have to screw in. Don't know why they didn't think of that 10 years ago.
Awesome! That's great to hear. Have you ever combined dissociatives with DOC? The combination of the 2 seems intriguing to me. I didn't find DOC to havve much in a way of body load, but I was walking the whole time. DOM I found to have a bit of a heavy body load. Not bad, not good, just there. I'm wondering if something like 2f-DCK would take the edge off of it or if it'd worsen the body load.
Yeah I've added MXE to DOC a few times. I have never pre-loaded with a disso though. For me, every psychedelic is tremendously potentiated with even light doses of dissociatives as a preload/launching pad. Like 2-3x as powerful. The bodyload is reduced but the trip becomes extremely intense, to the point that combining, say, 15mg of MXE and 20mg of 2C-B (both light doses that are museum-level for me) results in a profound trip where I can barely see through the visuals and have trouble communicating. However, adding a dissociative post-peak seems to not have the same effect, it just smooths things out and adds a dissociating edge. I have never really had the balls to preload DOC with a disso, it's strong enough on its own, and so long.
@cosmic charlie , that sucks man.
I hope that you get to stay. But even if you don't, you have to tell yourself that going on a relapse binge and ending up in prison just isn't an option. When we tell ourselves that these things will happen, we are basically pre-allowing it to happen... it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. yeah, it'll be stressful, but it doesn't mean you have to relapse.
