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[jay-ell]

Enjoy, Nabu. Hawaii is our next big trip, I'm thinking.

Sometimes you guys post things that make me realize we live in completely different worlds.

Our next big family trip is an indoor water park resort 3 hours away, and I'm probably as excited about that as a normal person would be about Hawaii.

I'm...kind of a homebody.

[Nabubrush]

My last five vacations have each been two or three days long, and were either to the Oregon coast or down to San Diego to watch a game (which we lost every time). Whoops, the last one was up to Seattle and I wanted a meteor to hit the stadium. Unfortunately the Seahawks won.

[jay-ell]

My last five vacations have each been two or three days long, and were either to the Oregon coast or down to San Diego to watch a game (which we lost every time). Whoops, the last one was up to Seattle and I wanted a meteor to hit the stadium. Unfortunately the Seahawks won.

Up 'til 2 years ago, the only "vacations" we ever took were going to Ohio to see my family. For our anniversary this year, Pedro gave me a grand in cash that he'd been withdrawing little by little over the previous six months and squirreling away for us to take some fun, non-family vacations this year. Not a bad gift, eh?

[greenkoolayd]

the reply i got from Pat Toomey was more akin to, "cool story, bro.  thanks for blablabla."

[jaydub]

My socialist puppet representative was already against SOPA, but Boxer co-sponsored PIPA and DiFi was unmoved following the Great Internet Gnashing Of Teeth.  I pinged all of them, Rep. Stark wrote me back (as is his wont - or his staff's wont), the others didn't.  Feinstein's official page was down though (probably from a massive DDOS) and she may not have gotten the email.

[jaydub]

I forget, is Mark the older one or the younger one?

The only way Pete Stark is getting out of office is on a gurney.  I have no idea how that guy got himself so entrenched.

[Carlos del Vaca]

But you see, the year is actually 365 and one-quarter days long. For the past three years you have been paid for that one-quarter of a day without actually working it. So this just gets us square in that regard.

Sincerely,
MGMT.

[Nabubrush]

Sometimes when the weather gets shitty, we can't make it to or from work. So sometimes we get stuck at work for maybe a couple or three days. I get paid by the day. Some of my coworkers are salaried. Thanks for working three extra days for free, you poor bastards! Because of snow!!!

[theinevitable]

I do not understand what is different between my roommates and I, where it makes me MAD that we would have to call a plumber to fix our toilet, and they don't care.

I am pretty sure I understand what is going wrong, but I'm not sure how to fix it. The internet says we need to replace the ballcock assembly.

I HAVE A $200K COLLEGE DEGREE, AND I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FIND A GOOD JOB, BUT I'LL BE DAMNED IF I CAN'T FIX A TOILET.

[pmcd9]

I am pretty sure I understand what is going wrong, but I'm not sure how to fix it. The internet says we need to replace the ballcock assembly.

That's a five minute job.  Go get 'em tiger.

[side_show]

You can work out your ballcock problem on your own!

Sorry.  It had to be said.  But really, yeah, it is a five minute fix.  Super easy, not expensive at all, and worth a try.  One thing I'm confused about is: aren't you renting, and therefore isn't it your landlord's responsibility to fix the toilet?  The reason I ask is because when I had the same problem back in the day, my building maintenance person came to swap out the inner workings of the toilet and showed me how to do it, so the next time I had a similar problem (at my own house, later on) I was able to fix it easily. 

[wombat]

Smells is right, this is not your responsibility. Do not let your landlord off the hook for this sort of thing.

[miles]

But also, ballcock.

[side_show]

It's ballcock Wednesday everyone!  Ballcock warriors unite!

[theinevitable]

yeah, it is absolutely my landlord's responsibility. I just want to fix something so that I feel like I can do something other than watch TV shows and ring up groceries. I will definitely at least request that they pay for the new part.