What's that Shakespeare quote about trouble coming 'not in single spies, but in battalions'?  At the end of my tether - several weeks in which expensive household equipment has been breaking down and having to be replaced(£££££££+) or repaired in a time consuming fashion with pricey and difficult to obtain parts.  Yesterday the final straw? Leaky hot water tank, damaged ceiling, ruined carpet.  Plumber no.1 'made it safe' but cannot fix/ replace.  Plumber no.2 knows how to replace but not how long it will take to find the replacement. No hot water at present- running on a very short fuse today.

2 hours ago, Sombreuil said:

What's that Shakespeare quote about trouble coming 'not in single spies, but in battalions'?  At the end of my tether - several weeks in which expensive household equipment has been breaking down and having to be replaced(£££££££+) or repaired in a time consuming fashion with pricey and difficult to obtain parts.  Yesterday the final straw? Leaky hot water tank, damaged ceiling, ruined carpet.  Plumber no.1 'made it safe' but cannot fix/ replace.  Plumber no.2 knows how to replace but not how long it will take to find the replacement. No hot water at present- running on a very short fuse today.

 

Oh dear.  That sounds bloody awful. I hope ACI will at least give your brain a break from it for awhile, though I now how long flooded carpets can take to deal with.  I've had a similar run of bad luck this year with a broken washing machine, dishwasher, sewage system, phones - the works. Lack of money did force me to learn how to fix a broken gasket, though, for only $20 instead of hundreds. I've given up on plumbers. 

Plumbers, heating engineers, people who charge you to come out and tsk tsk over your machine and tell you it's too expensive to fix/ they don't carry the part/the part will take weeks to come/ the job is a days worth and they can't fit you in before October- grrrrrr- there's a special circle of hell for them.  Very grateful to plumber no.2 who has been very helpful - keeping him on speed dial.  It's maddening isn't it?  Sewage system sounds awful!

11 hours ago, SparkleSalad said:

Hypothetically, if a person were to to have access to, oh, let’s say, a 1kg tub of hummus - all to themselves - how long do you think it would take them to get through? Hypothetically. >_>

 

Hummus is healthy, whole food full of proteins! (at least I hope there isn't too much processed stuff in it)

So I guess if you eat only hummus lunch and dinner... it might be healthy to finish it in two days and a half? c: 

Just now, Murieleirum said:

 

Hummus is healthy, whole food full of proteins! (at least I hope there isn't too much processed stuff in it)

So I guess if you eat only hummus lunch and dinner... it might be healthy to finish it in two days and a half? c: 

 

You forgot it's also practically a chickpea smoothie. 1.5 days.

5 minutes ago, SparkleSalad said:

 

You forgot it's also practically a chickpea smoothie. 1.5 days.

 

Well... smoothie... is an abused trendy word in the cuisine world... I think hummus has different texture. Although, if we want to talk calorie wise, if you eat ONLY that, you might even eat the whole thing in a day. 

Just now, Murieleirum said:

 

Well... smoothie... is an abused trendy word in the cuisine world... I think hummus has different texture. Although, if we want to talk calorie wise, if you eat ONLY that, you might even eat the whole thing in a day. 

 

Grainy brown smoothie is still smoothie. I just stuck a straw in the tub. What is shame?

19 minutes ago, SparkleSalad said:

 

Grainy brown smoothie is still smoothie. I just stuck a straw in the tub. What is shame?

 

You have Homer in your ava, after all. 

7 minutes ago, Murieleirum said:

 

You have Homer in your ava, after all. 

 

That's Yuzu. Mr Sparkle is disrespectful to dirt!

1 minute ago, SparkleSalad said:

 

That's Yuzu. Mr Sparkle is disrespectful to dirt!

 

Oh, so that's what supaakoru was I swear I'm still clueless with 外来語

59 minutes ago, Murieleirum said:

 

Oh, so that's what supaakoru was I swear I'm still clueless with 外来語

 

To be fair, this avatar has ha instead of pa in pawa- kuri-n (and the ku looks like wa) and it should be supa-kuru instead of supa-koru but it was the 90s and animated sitcom writers didn't have Google Translate back then.

 

 

I have hot water again - thank you plumber no 2 - you're worth every penny!

13 hours ago, Sombreuil said:

I have hot water again - thank you plumber no 2 - you're worth every penny!

 

Congratulations! 

Ohh I just discovered this thread. Is this where I lament that my dog can read my stress levels? Because she responded by peeing on the biggest, heaviest, most difficult to clean rug. And now she's more stressed out because I look grumpy. My gritted-teeth grimace isn't passing for a soothing smile.

 

 

So, the magic of ACI made it so that:

1) I broke my pc

2) But today results from uni got in and I am 23rd on the graduatory rank for oriental studies so I got in by far. The score could have been better lol, but I don't even care. I'm in! Japanese, here I come!!