davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

A lot of people – me included – were pretty annoyed. $$$… 

I've come close to leaving Flickr several times over the years. The closest was when Verizon/Oath said they were going to eliminate "Pro" accounts and make everything ad-supported free. I got so angry I deleted probably half of my content, with an intention of shifting over to a site called iPernity.

Verizon ended up selling Flickr to SmugMug, who raised the "Pro" prices but who have also gradually moved Flickr back to being a fun and effective photo-hosting site with a strong social aspect. iPernity devolved in to chaos, was almost shut down, and was ultimately taken over by a group of users who were, to put it mildly, highly opinionated. The iPernity.com site still exists, I see, but I have no interest in returning.

For simple photo hosting, 23hq.com remains a solid low-cost option, but even though the site offers limited Flickr-like social media features, there is no significant interaction there to speak of.

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11 February - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Janie and Trivia replace a corroded, gummed-up bathroom faucet:


Janie disconnects the water lines under the sink and removes the lock nuts.

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Triv pulls the old faucet out of the countertop.
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Trivia holds the new "waterfall style" faucet in place while Janie tightens up the connections under the sink cabinet.

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"SON OF A...."

And now the swearing starts. An inevitability when switching out a drain is that the tailpiece - the straight pipe that points downward under a sink drain - will be either too long or too short. Even though tailpiece connections are ostensibly adjustable, the tailpiece of the new drain will still be the wrong length to match up with the pre-existing drain line.

In this case, the tailpiece is too long, necessitating trimming it to be shorter. It has to do with that pesky physics issue of water being disinclined to flow up-slope. Could have been worse: a too-short tailpiece would have required a trip to the hardware store.

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"That ought to do it. Now to sand the burrs and bevel the outside edges a bit."

Janie uses a hacksaw to trim an over-long tailpiece.

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"Jus li' dat, sucker!"

Janie has a low tolerance for anything less than perfection.

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"Looks good up here! The water is running strong and smooth, hot and cold!"

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"No leaks down here! That's a wrap!"