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Nothing too bad today and just a sore tooth and may need my mouthguard readjusted. Had to tread carefully and does hurt to chew so can not eat too many crunchy foods.

Bad memories like mosquitos around my head -- can't make them go away and can't kill them. And hate, misanthropy, and suicidal ideation.

I still need a light in the living room and a new shower head. It upsets me having to sit in the dark every day and the water pressure is so low that it's hard to rinse off or get the water temperature adjusted. I've been suffering with this almost 10 months now. My mother doesn't care and gets mad when I bring up buying them.

^ About shower heads -- I had the same problem recently and when I got the head off I found some small particles of sand trapped inside, and after cleaning them out the old shower head worked fine again, so I ended up not needing to buy a replacement.

Feeling like a worthless waste of space and I still have a headache.

I don't know how to do that. I suspect it's because it's the kind you can take down and hold in your hand and it has a long skinny hose. I just want a normal shower head.

I'm going in the hospital Friday for an operation and probably getting out on Saturday and still don't have a ride home. My mother hasn't even asked anyone yet and the people she hinted at either didn't notice the hints or don't want to. I'd rather not take a cab home because besides being expensive when I got my appendix out and took a cab home I think the hospital worker was getting annoyed. When they push you outside in a wheelchair when you get discharged they stay out there with you until you get in a vehicle and leave and I had to wait a long time.

No matter the shower head it should fit to the wall just the same. All you need is a big ass adjustable wrench to screw it off.

I don't have a big adjustable wrench. I just want a new one anyways because I don't need one that I can take down and hold in my hand.

Well then, sounds like you have quite the Bunnings shopping list:

1. New showerhead (you can get a basic water saving one for $25)
2. Plumbing tape
3. Large adjustable wrench
4. A little basic tap repair kit consisting of various sized rubber o-rings (I think)

Oh ok. You'll still probably need a wrench or a big pair of pliers, like someone else mentioned, though.

No sleep at night = a very angry me.

Mine is a tale of woe (but feel free to laugh, if the mood strikes you). Today is my traditional junkyard day. Now, I was going to skip it and just get things done around the house but the junkyard I used had posted on Craigslist that it got in a Nissan Frontier and I couldn't let it go. I needed a gauge cluster and a vehicle speed sensor and these things are hard to find. I found the sensor, but the cluster was long gone...oh well. I paid my $17 for the sensor ($116 new, so $100 savings!) and went to start the truck. I got a click/no start condition. Eventually, I got help push starting it, popped the clutch and off I went. I figured the battery was a 1 year model that I had been using for 3 years so it was starting to go. However, this never leaves me stranded because there is always enough life left in it to get a new one within a week of the old one starting to fail. I decided to stop for lunch. Before going in, I checked to be certain it would start, and it did. About 20 minutes later, I come out to start the truck and nothing. This time it was a no click/no start and the lights on the dash barely lit up. I tried to pop start it, but the battery was too dead to pressurize the fuel rail, fire the injectors and the ignition, so I was screwed. I take a walk and buy jumper cables and get a jump but the battery refuses to keep a charge. Great. Either the battery is shot or there is a big electrical load draining it faster than it can be charged. I decide to pull the battery out and try to find a replacement.

Act II

Well, now I'm screwed. I was 35 miles from home and my truck was dead. There was only $73 left in my pocket and that had been earmarked to buy the parts for my Metro so that I could stop driving the truck for work. This was not enough to buy a decent new battery, but it might buy a good used one. So, I set off on my journey. In my hands was a 30lb lead/acid car battery and I knew not where the nearest parts store was, only that it was most likely on Park Blvd, which was the street I was on. I walked for 3 or 4 miles carrying that battery, all the time with the question in my head: "Why was the battery draining so rapidly?" After about an hour's walk, I finally came to a selection of parts stores. When I found the one I wound up dealing with, they tested my battery and said it didn't necessarily test bad but that it needed to be charged for 45 minutes to be certain. Now I had to weigh my options. I was still parked at the restaurant I had eaten at, and it had a small parking lot. Would the management have my truck towed if I left it there much longer or would it be OK? Even if it wouldn't be towed, would my old battery (now two years out of warranty) even hold a charge to begin with? I decided not to roll the dice. I bought the cheapest battery they had, which was new, but only carries a 90 day warranty. That plus a drink left me with around $3 in my pocket. Now I would start the 3-4 mile journey back, carrying the new battery. I entertained the possibility of taking the bus service that runs along that street, but I had only once before ridden public transportation and that was in Las Vegas, Nevada-10 years ago. This was Pinellas Park, Florida, a rather low rent sort of place and so I decided that today was not a day to try new things. I would walk. (Did I mention I was wearing Flip Flops?) Looking at the people at the bus stops, I felt confident that I had made the right decision since most looked borderline homeless (not that I was dressed any better, having jut been to the junkyard and all) and many were probably on drugs. Still though, I had to wonder why the truck was draining it's battery? Was it a wiring issue? It has nearly 370,000 miles on it and so it is possible that time and vibrations had shorted something. Then again, the wiring is so small in this truck that it would likely just melt if asked to drain that many amperes through a short. Eventually, tired and exhausted, I made it back to the truck. I put the battery in the truck and it became immediately apparent why the old one had died. My headlights were on! I had gone through a rain shower on my way to the junkyard and had turned them on when it was raining (it's the law here). Unfortunately, after all of those miles the alarm that sounds when you leave your headlights on with the car off had worn out and no longer worked. Since it was sunny, I didn't see the dash lights or the other lights when I stopped the truck. So, I had just wasted the last of my tip money from the weekend to buy something I really didn't need in the first place! Oh well... now all I have left to deal with is the chafing... It burns! It really burns!

The Middle East. I wish there was some hypothetical way that I could go over there and make a huge difference to so many people there.

work getting me in at 5am. Enough said.

Grounded, and I'm sicker than I was last week. I also can't go volunteer in the cafeteria because I'm sick. I really should be at home right now.