Uncured organic hot dogs, ketchup, Sriracha, with a home-made Taiwanese milk tea.
So fun!
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Uncured organic hot dogs, ketchup, Sriracha, with a home-made Taiwanese milk tea. So fun!
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Aaruhi with mommy...so cute!  This party had great food and fun friends.    There's no way to say this nicely. The water is expensive, full of lead, corrosive, and full of gunk and sand. Yes, metal chips and sand. Nearby construction is constant, and notices of water disruption/muddification are sporadic, if you get any notice at all. The result? I had 2 dead sinks, after paying $800 to fix a third sink a few months ago. This time, I did it myself. Not even a drop of water would come out. Why? Here is the inside of the faucet.  We periodically flush the sinks before using our toilets. Otherwise the gunk jams up your toilet valves, and you have to replace the insides of your toilet...which I also had to do this trip. Twice. In fact, this is how I found out my sinks were hosed. I was trying to purge gunk before it killed my toilets. Anyhow, I fixed all sinks and toilets this week. This is exactly as fun as it sounds. Those are dead toilet valves in the trash bin. One lasted not even 3 minutes before it clogged completely with gunk.  Oh, just one unlucky toilet? Botched job? Here is a new faucet after less than 120 seconds.  Thanks Cambridge and Somerville. I often think about doing certain construction or repair operations, from an economic viewpoint. Perhaps it's not worth my doing a repair, and I should outsource it instead. Often, I do it myself regardless. :) My wife and I built this huge fence project. It took 4 months, during a long, hot summer. It is gorgeous, and one-of-a-kind. No way it would have turned out so well if we outsourced it. Cambridge weather viciously attacks wood. Periodically, the fence needs a powerwash, and then a touch up with Penofin, which is simply amazing. The powerwashing step can't be outsourced. If you put the nozzle too close, then you remove mildew, but strip some wood. If the nozzle is too far, then the surface won't get clean enough. Different boards need different levels of power. Some boards need to have some wood stripped. Here you can see some of the operation in progress. Here is a quick pan of the "after" stage for some parts. |
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