Productive!

Today has been super productive, though I still haven't cleaned any of the piles of bicycle parts laying all about the condo. There has also been a lot of consumption, but most of it necessary, and most of it with coupons and/or discounts.

I dropped off the old dead inkjet multifunction and a small baggie of dead batteries at the Decatur e-waste recycling event, bought a new garbage disposal (though the new terminology seems to be "food waste disposal") with a 20% off coupon, bought a fun new vegan cookbook (with a 40% off coupon), and bought some grcoeries at Whole Paycheck to try out the new cookbook.

Now comes the less fun part: replacing our old, crappy, cranky, leaky food waste disposal with the new one. It's the same brand, just slightly less crappy, so theoretically, it should be fairly straightforward. We'll see. As most of you know, I'm reasonably handy, but oftentimes these things are, well, non-trivial when they should be trivial. I do wish that our fancy high-rise condo with the gorgeous granite countertops and stainless steel appliances and floor to ceiling windows on two sides hadn't been equipped with bottom of the line Home Despot garbage appliances where you couldn't see them (like the 1/3hp Badger 1 in-sinkerator food disposal, $79.99 at both Lowe's and Home Despot.) I splurged and bought the next model up to replace it, the 1/2hp Badger 5. Big timer, me!

What's the worst case, really? Well, the worst case is pretty fucking expensive: if I mess it up sufficiently, I could need to call out a plumber on a Saturday night or Sunday day, which would really, well, suck. (I'd actually probably just use the bathroom sinks and wait until Monday to avoid a weekend service call.)

The instructions claim I need only a screwdriver, pliers, and plumber's putty. I have these. The bourbon is at hand. Let's get to work!

Photos may follow, especially if I'm feeling triumphant. Or really, really sad.