Failure work of the day

So yesterday was the last day of my 3-day GIS training. Except it was really the last two-hours of my 3-day training, because the Air Conditioning was out. In the Health Department building. In 95° weather. So they let us do the exercises and leave, instead of sitting through the lectures. Luckily this part was something I mostly knew about already, so it went pretty quickly. One of the plus sides of my job is that a lot of what I do (databases, volunteers, mapping, website design) cross-trains very nicely with Gaia Community and other hobby activities. I've already got a bug in my ear about the carpooling thing that's been on my To-Do list for forever...

So an 8-hour training that I expected to be ~6 hours is done in 2, and I go take care of the other things on my task list, and head home about 1pm. Sounds great, right?

( Nothing's ever simple )

What's a basin wrench? We soon discover the answer to that and all of our problems, and head home to do battle with the Sink-O-Doom. ( Read more... )

Only it doesn't work. One of the faucets gets to the point where it will spin in the sink-hole mounting, but the other one is stuck fast, and there's not enough hammering or penetrating or screwing to satisfy anybody in this adventure, more's the pity. ( I need a pipe-wrench wielding... )