it's the plumber, i've come to fix the sink

[phosfate]

The plumber came, which was nice of him considering, y'know, the black death and all. It took him half an hour to figure out that the problem was exactly what I phoned them about (my outgo pipe needed to be de-rooted). I went out on the back porch because the sound gives me panic attacks.

Then he left and the very tasty Japanese orange gummis I ate yesterday decided that they wanted revenge.

I played a lot of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon before I could go down to work. I don't think this game ever ends. "Hey did you ever hear about the STRONGEST POKEMON EVER? Wonder what he's like." *Big Orange Dragon and Cannon Turtle come stumbling into the town square* "Oh God we just met the strongest Pokemon ever and for the first time I know fear." "He kicked our asses and I'm never going back to that place." *pause* My partner, Mendel, says, "Hey, Ann, let's go check out the strongest Pokemon ever!" "Shut the fuck up, Mendel."

The bus has installed hand sanitizer dispensers, which would have been a great idea ten years ago, but I won't gripe about it. They are now running two at a time so there's enough room to distance passengers from one another. Even though there really isn't, but at least they're trying.

When I got to work I accidentally scratched myself, and found out how much evaporated hand sanitizer hurts on a tiny wound. It's a lot.

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

I'm very appreciative of plumbers right now!

Hand sanitizers on wounds, ouch! But glad the bus stations have installed them! Here they've shut down most of the buses, and homeless people have moved into some of the shelters. (Which good for them. It's somewhere to stay, and it's a little further from other people than the row of tents near my house.)

[phosfate]

No, they're on the actual buses, which is pretty great.

My town did a bunch of Downtown restoration about five years back, including benches that are giant slabs of sandstone -- with steel rails bolted in to stop homeless people from sleeping on them. Y'know, in case somebody wants to sit on a bench at 3 am. The bus shelters have benches that are too narrow to sleep on unless you are a child or cat. and I've seen exactly one -- just built -- that has room for a wheelchair user to get out of the rain.

We are dicks, is what I'm saying.

[wolfy_writing]

Ooh, nice!

Yeah, there are a lot of bus stops here that have the slanted benches. Which really sucks when I have to sit for a while waiting for the bus like I'm supposed to.

[dr_tectonic]

I almost had a freakout yesterday morning when I went to take a shower and there was no hot water and I thought the water heater was dead, but it turned out that I just needed to turn the knob a bit further.

Hand sanitizer is also great for helping you discover all the tiny cuts on your hands that you hadn't known were there. Ow.

[crantz]

Little Ann's Big Adventure!

I think Mendel needs to shut his big ass mouth before he gets eaten by a Relicanth.