housekeeping

[dira]

Due to the scheduling weirdness of holiday weeks, today is my day off. Which is good, because I have an important writing goal for today. So far today I have:

1) Gotten U-Verse installed by a very punctual and efficient tech while her fellow tech hung out on my couch, lamenting how much he'll miss her when he has to move on to training someone else.

2) Canceled cable and returned all the cable paraphernalia to my cable company.

3) Laundry.

4) A smidge of canon review for an exchange story.

5) Drano'd the bathtub, resolved to really for real buy one of those little drain colander things to see if that will keep the hair clog buildup from becoming a menace every three to six months.

6) Continued to be entertained by the thing I posted on Tumblr last night.

6) Set up a twitter account: @dsudis


Needless to say, there has been absolutely no writing of any kind.

Comments

[fox]

The hair catcher thing has changed my life, and it's changed the Gentleman Caller's too since we got one for his place. I insisted on the plastic one with sort of porcupine-tines, because the wire mesh ones aren't snaggy enough, but your hair is sturdier than mine so maybe it won't slink right through if there's not something for it to wind around.

[dira]

I don't know if I saw different models available the last time I looked at them, but I'll have to look around. I seem to recall the last one I got didn't work very well but also did not have porcupine-tines.

[fox]

This is what I have. It's a winner. http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=202732017&storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&ci_sku=202732017&ci_kw={keyword}&kwd={keyword}&cm_mmc=shopping-_-googleads-_-pla-_-202732017&ci_gpa=pla#.UKqqxYbhdQE

[terrio]

Ooh, very snazzy! Mine is much simpler; I got it at my local grocery store/drug store. It looks like this and cost about $2.99 or so - the brand name is Helping Hand.

Yours looks like it would probably do a better job and be easier to clean as well. ::envies::

[petronia]

The drain colander is an essential item for me, not only for the bathtub but the kitchen sink. Then again, I have so much hair that a regular shampooing creates a ball the size of a child's fist. XD;

[dira]

Mine's not quite that bad, but I think the time has definitely come to do something about it. :)

[were_duck]

I think I sprained something hitting the twitter follow button so hard :D

[dira]

:D :D :D

[mlyn]

Also get one of those long flexible sticks with spines for sticking down the drain and pulling clogs out. It's gross and a chore, but less toxic than Drano and costs about $.99. And is reusable. I have the colander thingy and only have to declog about every 4-6 months, but now that I know about a better hair trap (in your comments) I'll probably switch to that.

That thing on Tumblr is AMAZING.

I friended you on Twitter but my Twitter account is a different username, so let me know if you're confused. :)

[dira]

Oooh, I don't know if I've ever seen such a thing--where did you get it? That sounds like it would be just the thing.

Also, I LOVE MIKE WYNN'S FACE. :D

Also also, I do believe I have cracked your code. :)

[terrio]

While I was on Amazon looking for pictures of my hair-trapper, I went looking for clog-removers - this one seems promising. And you can't beat the price. :-)

I have been known to use a crochet hook for much the same purpose, but this looks like it would work much better.

[mlyn]

Yup, that's the thing I was speaking of.

[mlyn]

I got the plug puller thing from Home Depot.

GUNNY WYNN <3 <3 <3!

[waketosleep]

I am a fucking hippie: I clean drain clogs with a plunger. Or a baking soda/vinegar bomb. Works great. Drano is expensive. :/

[dira]

Oh, hm, I never thought to try a plunger on the shower drain. I did try baking soda and vinegar once, but that seemed to make things worse--I don't know if I got the proportions wrong or didn't use enough, or if my hair just defies being dissolved by reagents that are normally safe to eat.

[waketosleep]

Vinegar can take rust off a car bumper, so. Normally the way you do one of those bombs is to liberally dump in the baking soda first and then add vinegar. If the drain's clogged right up you'll need to use the plunger first anyway, though.

Plunging drains is not for the faint-hearted. Things may re-emerge that you never wanted to see again. But it works. With very little effort, in my experience. I once unblocked an almost totally clogged sink drain in about a minute. There were paper bits in there; a cat was implicated. I don't know. Plumbing is complicated.