I've been playing house handyman the last few days. Like anything else I do, I ended up starting on one project and diverging into two or three other, mostly unrelated, projects. Started fixing the wall in the downstairs bathroom, which meant pulling out the sink and putting in new sheet rock. Somehow this led to researching and buying a new toilet for the upstairs (a Toto Ultramax...a really well designed low flow toilet). It would have been easier if I had The Johnny Lift, but I didn't so Faith and I wrestled the old one out the old fashioned way ("you grab the bottom", "no, YOU grab the bottom"), put in a new wax ring, and installed the Toto. The toilet wax ring is one of those overlooked vital chinks in modern society. It costs a buck, probably consists of about a quarter or third of a pound of wax, and forms the primary barrier between you and the waste system. After looking at what's IN the waste system and waste pipes you become really grateful for things like wax seals, water traps, and, if all else fails, plumbers. Now that we have a new toilet it's obvious that we need a new bathtub and shower, if we get a new tub then the floor should be replaced and walls repainted, if the walls get repainted then the ceiling should too which means the ceiling fan ought to be replaced, once the bathroom is done then the orange countertop motif with avocado appliances in the kitchen will be the last holdouts from the 70's and that's a whole new spiraling home project of doom... Gotta get a job so I can get some rest!

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