Journal, Day 1311
Saturday, 21 October 2023
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I didn’t expect it to be so hot today. The weather people said the heat wave was supposed to be ending. I had some errands to run and it was uncomfortable and tiring in the car.
I went to Home Depot to pick up a dryer vent wall connector to replace the oversized elbow the delivery guy put on that was going to make the dryer stick out into the hallway. It was only $12 and if installed correctly, the connector only sticks out about two inches, and the hose slides in and clicks tight.
Then I picked up a prescription and some groceries for my brother. I discovered there appears to be some kind of carrot juice embargo. I went to three different stores and all of them were out of plain carrot juice. Why? They had 326 different types of tomato, Clamato, and vegetable juices but no carrot juice. And who drinks Clamato anyway?
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My brother looks great. He’s graduated from a walker to a single crutch. After a week or so he will only need a cane and then eventually he won’t need added support at all. He’s getting stir-crazy, but it did my heart good to see how well he’s healing. That alone made driving in the heat totally worth it.
When I got home I couldn’t take it anymore and had to do a load of laundry. There are still at least three more that need to be done, but I didn’t have the energy to schlep four loads of wet laundry to the laundromat to dry.
While it was washing I tried to install the dryer vent wall connector. The vent exhaust pipe in the wall was so badly mangled by whoever cut it with tin snips, that I had to use pliers to try and get it round again. The wall connector would only go into the pipe about halfway so I can’t screw the wall plate to the wall. I discovered that the cut pipe is actually another elbow piece inside the wall and it was cut about a half inch from the bend.
So now I’m going to have to pull the wall connector off and either cut off two inches of its rigid, ABS plastic insert pipe and hope it fits, or I’ll have to punch a bigger hole in the wall and pull out the cut aluminum elbow piece and change it for a proper duct pipe that’s straight so the wall connector fits right. And then patch the hole.
Or I could take a bunch of photos and send them to the landlord and let him send someone to sort it out. But I’m pretty sure that’s how the exhaust vent pipe got mangled in the first place.
Does anybody have a miter saw I can use for about ten minutes?
