It's gotten cold. Not so much that you walk outside and see you breath in the morning, but it's a steady progression away from the warmth we had in September toward the coat-wearing evenings we have now.
To go along with that cold, I have my first stuffy nose of the season. Lots of sneezing, and lots of hacking to keep the sore throat away. It seems to be going away well enough.
As far as school goes these days, well, it's the same old thing. A little babysitting, a little teaching, and a lot of "no"s. Basically, there isn't anything revolutionary going on. Can't say I wish there were either.
The one minor disaster of the week involved the cat and the toilet as disasters often do. Yuli has a habit of jumping up to the top of doors whenever I look like a good springboard to her. So, late at night, I was in the bathroom and had just flushed. The problem was that the toilet hadn't been working too well lately. It had the kind of flushing mechanism where I had to pull a button on top of the tank lid. For some reason, that button's string had gotten loose and the only way to flush the toilet was to pull the enitre lid up to the string would tighten up and pull the water drain.
As I was lifting the lid up, Yuli took the opportunity to jump from the bathroom door onto my shoulder and then on to the lid. The back corner of the lid slammed back onto he tank and bit of the corner of the lid chipped away. I thought that would be an easy fix with a little glue and it would have been, if I hadn't noticed the leaking coming from the back of the tank. On inspection, it came up that a crack was running down the length of the back of the tank and water was running out as the tank was filling up.
So I shut off the water to the toilet, asked the school to take a look at it, and 3 days later I had bought a new tank for the bathroom with a better flushing mechanism and better porcelain. It cost me 90 leva, which in the end, wasn't too bad. There are worse things in life than having to get a new toilet tank.
Posted by Rob at October 8, 2005 01:37 PM