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shadowkatSo, I wandered off to work today, and regaled my co-workers (really just two of them) with the saga of my broken toilet lid. Mel made me feel better, she apparently did the same thing in a rental apartment. And no, you can't fix them and yes, they shatter easily.
Also the frigging things are dangerous.
I looked up replacement toilet tank lids and found out that Amazon does supply replacement lids, as does Lowes and various others. I got excited. Only one problem - finding the correct lid that fits my toilet tank.
Me: See you can get replacement lids!
Super: Just make sure you get the right size.
Me: Looking into that.
Unfortunately it has to be made for the make and model number of your toilet. So I looked up how to find the make and model number. It's underneath the lid, or in the tank at the back wall above the water line - stamped into the tank, or you can find it under the external rim of the bowl.
I tried the lid first - and ended up cutting the outside of my thumb. It's a small cut, but it kept bleeding - requiring a band-aid, which refuses to stay on. Fingers aren't wonderful spots for band aids. Like I said, the lids are frigging dangerous when they break.
Did not find the model number.
So, I checked inside the tank - and it was Gerber USA, 2 (either a 0,6, or 8) 0 and either a 0,6, or 8, and 1. I decided it was 2 6 0 6 1 or 2 8 0 8 1. And with my cell phone took a picture of the underside of the external bowl - and got the number 21-752. Looked both up online, and finally found the second number - but it's no longer really made, and there is nothing matching the tank number. I've decided the toilet probably dates back to the 1980s, which means it is impossible to replace the lid. To get the right size - you require a lid that was made for the specific toilet model.
So I texted the super and asked if they had bigger board. Because I am willing to use a board as a lid or cover, just would prefer to use the boards that I'm currently utilizing for my radiator. Not that it is an issue now - the radiator isn't in use, now, considering its summer.
Super's wife texted back that that's why she was concerned about the size - they knew it was probably too old and getting new parts for old things is close to impossible - they are fixing something else now and ran into the same problem. (It is a pre-war building, built in the 1920s, half the stuff in it probably dates back at least that far.) Also the super is sick, but it's not COVID. (There are other things going around, believe it or not.)
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Movie Review
Watched all three Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them flicks this weekend. I had to go back and re-watch the first two (which I had no memory of) in order to figure out the last one - Secrets of Dumbledore which is impossible to follow without having seen the previous two movies. (Which I couldn't remember at all. I don't know why this is - but about 90% of the movies I've seen in the 21st Century - I have no memory of, at all. I know I saw them - because I keep stumbling over movie reviews that I wrote about them in my journal - but I don't remember seeing them. It's kind of discombobulating.)
Of the three, I like The Crimes of Grindwald the best - it's the most thrilling, and focuses more on the female characters. But, of the Grindenwald's I prefer the guy who was Hannibal in the Hannibal series, Mads Mikkelsen to Depp. Also prefer Colin Farrel to Depp. (Depp got taken off of the third film, or recast, after he got himself into trouble.)
Actually the Fantastic Beast films - were supposed to be seven films, but
they ran into some issues with the franchise. I was explaining this to a co-worker, who is a fan of the series, today.
JK Rowling, the franchise's creator and author, and also the screenwriter (except for the last film which was co-written by Steven Kloves), as you all probably know by now - got herself into a shit-load of trouble. She couldn't keep her mouth shut on Twitter and felt the need to use the platform to denounce transgender women and men. Worse, she felt the need to put some money behind it - and made it well known that she was supporting TERF causes. TERF is basically radical feminists against transgender. They see transgender folks as a threat to feminism, or something along those lines. I honestly don't understand Rowling's or their argument. Why Rowling's is threatened by transgender women, I've no clue. For the record, Daniel Radcliff didn't get it either - and after making a pro-transgender statement, backed away from Rowlings slowly.
So that was problem number 1. Then Johnny Depp got himself into trouble.
I'm not sure if they'll continue with the franchise or not. Dumbledore did poorly at the box office and the critics did not like it. After seeing it? They have a point. It drags - too much exposition, and I found it hard to follow in places. It meanders a bit, and you have to have seen the prior films to follow it at all. Best parts contained Jude Law - who plays a rather tortured, yet whimsical Dumbledore. I adored Jude Law's Dumbledore.
Also, liked anything with Bunty.
The story focuses a great deal on Dumbledore's past with Grindlewald, and his doomed romance. I kind of wished for a bit more flashback. Kowalski and Queenie are equal parts endearing and annoying, and Leda's brother doesn't appear to know what to do with himself any more than Newt's does. I think the film suffers from having one too many characters.
The previous film had a bit more focus, or so I thought.
***
No time to do television reviews...so movie reviews, will have to suffice.
Also the frigging things are dangerous.
I looked up replacement toilet tank lids and found out that Amazon does supply replacement lids, as does Lowes and various others. I got excited. Only one problem - finding the correct lid that fits my toilet tank.
Me: See you can get replacement lids!
Super: Just make sure you get the right size.
Me: Looking into that.
Unfortunately it has to be made for the make and model number of your toilet. So I looked up how to find the make and model number. It's underneath the lid, or in the tank at the back wall above the water line - stamped into the tank, or you can find it under the external rim of the bowl.
I tried the lid first - and ended up cutting the outside of my thumb. It's a small cut, but it kept bleeding - requiring a band-aid, which refuses to stay on. Fingers aren't wonderful spots for band aids. Like I said, the lids are frigging dangerous when they break.
Did not find the model number.
So, I checked inside the tank - and it was Gerber USA, 2 (either a 0,6, or 8) 0 and either a 0,6, or 8, and 1. I decided it was 2 6 0 6 1 or 2 8 0 8 1. And with my cell phone took a picture of the underside of the external bowl - and got the number 21-752. Looked both up online, and finally found the second number - but it's no longer really made, and there is nothing matching the tank number. I've decided the toilet probably dates back to the 1980s, which means it is impossible to replace the lid. To get the right size - you require a lid that was made for the specific toilet model.
So I texted the super and asked if they had bigger board. Because I am willing to use a board as a lid or cover, just would prefer to use the boards that I'm currently utilizing for my radiator. Not that it is an issue now - the radiator isn't in use, now, considering its summer.
Super's wife texted back that that's why she was concerned about the size - they knew it was probably too old and getting new parts for old things is close to impossible - they are fixing something else now and ran into the same problem. (It is a pre-war building, built in the 1920s, half the stuff in it probably dates back at least that far.) Also the super is sick, but it's not COVID. (There are other things going around, believe it or not.)
***
Movie Review
Watched all three Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them flicks this weekend. I had to go back and re-watch the first two (which I had no memory of) in order to figure out the last one - Secrets of Dumbledore which is impossible to follow without having seen the previous two movies. (Which I couldn't remember at all. I don't know why this is - but about 90% of the movies I've seen in the 21st Century - I have no memory of, at all. I know I saw them - because I keep stumbling over movie reviews that I wrote about them in my journal - but I don't remember seeing them. It's kind of discombobulating.)
Of the three, I like The Crimes of Grindwald the best - it's the most thrilling, and focuses more on the female characters. But, of the Grindenwald's I prefer the guy who was Hannibal in the Hannibal series, Mads Mikkelsen to Depp. Also prefer Colin Farrel to Depp. (Depp got taken off of the third film, or recast, after he got himself into trouble.)
Actually the Fantastic Beast films - were supposed to be seven films, but
they ran into some issues with the franchise. I was explaining this to a co-worker, who is a fan of the series, today.
JK Rowling, the franchise's creator and author, and also the screenwriter (except for the last film which was co-written by Steven Kloves), as you all probably know by now - got herself into a shit-load of trouble. She couldn't keep her mouth shut on Twitter and felt the need to use the platform to denounce transgender women and men. Worse, she felt the need to put some money behind it - and made it well known that she was supporting TERF causes. TERF is basically radical feminists against transgender. They see transgender folks as a threat to feminism, or something along those lines. I honestly don't understand Rowling's or their argument. Why Rowling's is threatened by transgender women, I've no clue. For the record, Daniel Radcliff didn't get it either - and after making a pro-transgender statement, backed away from Rowlings slowly.
So that was problem number 1. Then Johnny Depp got himself into trouble.
I'm not sure if they'll continue with the franchise or not. Dumbledore did poorly at the box office and the critics did not like it. After seeing it? They have a point. It drags - too much exposition, and I found it hard to follow in places. It meanders a bit, and you have to have seen the prior films to follow it at all. Best parts contained Jude Law - who plays a rather tortured, yet whimsical Dumbledore. I adored Jude Law's Dumbledore.
Also, liked anything with Bunty.
The story focuses a great deal on Dumbledore's past with Grindlewald, and his doomed romance. I kind of wished for a bit more flashback. Kowalski and Queenie are equal parts endearing and annoying, and Leda's brother doesn't appear to know what to do with himself any more than Newt's does. I think the film suffers from having one too many characters.
The previous film had a bit more focus, or so I thought.
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No time to do television reviews...so movie reviews, will have to suffice.
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Date: 2022-06-22 04:54 pm (UTC)People are odd and always more than one thing. (shrugs)