SAGA; TAP

So turns out the easiest (best) way to fix a dripping kitchen tap - is to replace it. Sounds good so far, right? - read on - with a new (used) one that has a sink attached. ahhhh.

Saga of the kitchen tap; first it was broken (didn't even realize that - apparently it was leaking a little bit) and the maintenance guys decided to do us a favor and fix that. Well in their process of fixing a little leak they somehow managed to break the whole tap OFF ........... and so we were without tap for a bunch of days. The new (used) tap they replaced it with? .............. was in fact worse than what we started with. Hot became cold, cold became hot and you couldn't even turn the darn tap. So they came back and tried fixing it, and fixing it, and fixing it again and then I think they just plain gave up.

Yesterday - they replaced the whole lot. Yup, rather than mess around with changing another tap - it became way easier to bring the whole works. Kitchen sink with the tap still attached. From the house down the road - not sure what they plan on doing over there about that.

And so - now we have a perfectly fine working kitchen sink and a tap back. Small things in life are worth a whole bunch.

TODAY: Need to do all the things I should have done yesterday. Didn't get a darn thing done. A little boy we know (driver's son) is very, very sick. Big time fever and all of that. And, unfortunately the first thing to check for here is dengue fever, and that would not be a good thing. (fingers crossed about that) No news yet - still waiting on that.

Today's pic - 2009 GENERAL ELECTION. Well this is just a small fragment of the millions of flags flying here right now. Not to mention the T-shirts and banners and billboards and posters and pretty much anything else you can think of stuff. The roads are literally littered with this stuff. All up in advance of the federal election coming up. Balikpapan right now (and all of Indonesia in fact) is a very colourful place.

Ok, time to go get a whole bunch of stuff done. Good to Go!