September 27, 2014

I fixed my whistling toilet last night. I read about it a little and saw that a common cause was a bad seal on the little plunger thing in the tank. There is an actual name for that thing but I'm going to go with little plunger thing. When I got back to the new house I took the lid off the toilet tank and water went everywhere because there was a whole bunch of condensation inside the tank. I guess the water is really cold and the tank is well sealed or something. After I cleaned up all the water I flushed the toilet to see if I could locate the whistle. Previously, every time I flushed the toilet there was a kind of deep, short whistle sound that I thought was happening in the wall. When I flushed the toilet with the tank lid off, there wasn't a whistle. My guess is the tank lid fits so well that it allowed pressure to build up inside the tank. Or maybe the seal was off just enough to cause a whistling noise when air was pulled into the tank every time I flushed. I don't know. I'm not a plumber. But, my toilet doesn't whistle anymore.

I slept in this morning and that was nice. It also felt a bit like Sunday because I didn't work yesterday. After exercising I listening to shows on NPR and wrote my discussion post for my research class. Then, I ate lunch. I thought about having leftover spaghetti, which I made last night for dinner, but instead I just went with a normal lunch.

After lunch I buckled down and made real progress on my reflective journal for my other class. It doesn't necessarily feel like my greatest work but I'm actually writing, which is a good start because I'm pretty far behind. I made it about halfway through the first entry today and if all goes well, I should be able to finish it up tomorrow and send it off to my professor so he can read it over, critique it, and put me on the right path. That is the goal anyway.

I played a little Fable: The Lost Chapters this afternoon. It was probably one of my favorite Xbox games. Easily in my top three. At one point I bought The Lost Chapters and ended up breaking the game by exploiting a glitch to make a bunch of money, and lost my save data before I ever made it to the extra bits added by The Lost Chapters. This time it would be nice to make it all the way through. I played a little yesterday and ended up having to replay most of the beginning Guild stuff over again because I stopped in the middle of it and it didn't save. Today I finished that up and beat the first quest after leaving the Guild, so hopefully that will save.

Tonight I went over to my dad's house for my sister's birthday dinner. Her actual birthday is tomorrow. I ate way too much food. Way too much. I had a veggie burger, big baked potato, pasta salad, coleslaw, an ear of corn, a piece of peanut butter chocolate cake, and some tutti frutti ice cream. It was all delicious and way too much. Tomorrow I believe we are having another birthday dinner with my mom and hopefully not as much food is involved.