Aptenobytes

toilet flush levers

Is it too much to ask for the average hardware store to carry a toilet flush lever that is not a piece of crap plastic with some chrome like finish?

I have purchased eight of the stupid things in the last three years! I am willing to pay more for one that doesn't break. Really, I am, but I have searched Rona, Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Home Hardware, Preston Hardware and Lowes, and nobody seems to carry anything that doesn't have plastic in some critical juncture that inevitably breaks.

Toronto News: Aggression during G20 rally ‘perpetrated by police,’ judge rules - thestar.com

“The only organized or collective physical aggression at that location that evening was perpetrated by police each time they advanced on demonstrators,” Justice Melvyn Green ruled on Thursday. He was referring to a demonstration at Queen St. and Spadina Ave. on Saturday, June 26, 2010.

[From Toronto News: Aggression during G20 rally ‘perpetrated by police,’ judge rules - thestar.com]

Reno World

Working on two projects this week. First, is the stairs. The pic below is of the handmade square nails holding the stairs together, as we are fixing it up after seventy years of neglect.

The spindles removed for stripping

Another picture of a handmade nail. They're just so cool.

And the other project is the bathroom demo that turned into a full on mould remediation nightmare. Below is a picture of a screw from a power box that is rubbing against the shower pipe.

Another picture of the power box. Note the rust around it. This is but one example of the idiocy that has gone on in this house.

The bathroom has now been stripped of all mould bearing drywall etc., and is ready to have some insulation added, and then new drywall.

A view of the roof in the bathroom. Looks like the roof is also a culprit in this scenario.

Note the lack of insulation around the retro-fitted windows. Thanks window installing idiots. Appreciate that.

   

And here is the real culprit in this saga. A rusted out tub spout which caused a long term leak that ended up with lots of mould.

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Good times.

The next post will show some after shots of the work we've done in our front entrance and in the bathroom.

London Riots

Interesting to see that there is a line beyond which people starting putting up with shit, and start causing shit.

The London riots are not a rational response to the conditions of poverty, or to the capitalist structure that produced it. However, most of the rational responses have been closed to the people affected, or have been proven worthless as responses.

Perhaps the rational responses will come later as the community comes together in the wake of the riots to heal itself and to clean up. The real community activists will see have something to point to, and say "If you don't fund our alternatives, this is what happens."

The kids that are rioting today are the spiritual heirs to the kids who rioted in the 80's under Thatcher, and the sad part is that they are rioting for exactly the same reasons.