So I went up to my nest on the third floor of Bonnie's
and found that there was a leak around the cold tap of
the bathroom sink, so I jiggled the handle, which was a
big mistake, because the thing popped off altogether and
a geyser erupted from the socket. I squeezed down on the
stream like the little Dutch boy

That had to be a major surprise....!

An unpleasant surprise.

and shouted down to Bonnie, who is pretty deaf, so I
kept shouting, and the next door neighbor Jim heard and
came in (he has the keys) and shut the valve while I kept
pressure on the broken joint.

Good thing he could come to the rescue....

Afterward, I had him give a tour of the basement
to show where the shutoffs were. Bonnie of course
had no clue.

All was well, sort of, except that it
turned out that the leak had been going on for a bit
before being discovered, so the towels in the cupboard
were soaked, and the ones that weren't got that way for
mopping up the mess, plus the paper goods, plus the soap
supply, plus some but thankfully not all of my medicine.
The water had also migrated to the laundry room on the
second floor, causing minor damage and much extra wetness.

Water does that.... Most of the damage to our house when we had the
attic fire was done by the water used to put it out....

If I'd abandoned my station and gone to the
basement to find the shutoff valve, the damage
might have ended up being considerable.

The plumber did come and rebuild the faucet apparatus and
gave it a clean bill of health for just a couple hundred
smackers.

Not too bad, actually...

Turned out a little more after all was said and done.

but a bit of the T area was included by accident, and some
bright person noticed the anomaly, so there was another MRI
at 5:45 in the morning ... which was inconclusive anyway,
so more tests yet are indicated after her return from Turkey.

Hopefully it will all be fine...

We're of that opinion.

Lilli - well, she claims that she's been given a relatively
clean bill of health. Nonetheless, walking a quarter mile to
the train station we had to stop twice for legs not working..

Not good. Has she considered a walker...? or is that too much hassle
for your trips...?

Omnis vanitas. But this last jaunt, 3 miles, she
was good on the outbound half, but we got only a
quarter mile going back. She had to take 3 rests,
and we ended up hailing a taxi, with my desperation
showing. The first two ignored us, and this guy
made a U-turn in the middle of the street and came to
our rescue (we were pointed in the right direction).
He promptly took another U-turn putting us in the
wrong direction, so we both screamed at him, and he
made yet another U-turn. Thank goodness - he could
have continued his expensive route, or worse. As it
was, he charged an exorbitant fare, and I gave him
ten extra pesos for not kidnapping us.

My keyboard, which often is so unresponsive that some typed
letters don't show up. It's as though a particularly outdated
keystroke logger were working, which is a distinct possibility.

How annoying...

I talked to a friend who was being monitored by the FBI;
she had the same symptoms. She was being monitored because
unknown to her one of her correspondents was on the ten
most wanted list.

My quartet session got cancelled. Sadly, we'd wangled an old
friend who was in her day one of the most sought-after
musicians in town, and I hadn't seen her in quite some while.

So you still weren't able to see her... that is sad...

vs. the new version
whoops. Caramelly sweet aroma. Not as hard melt,
Very sweet, kind of cloying on the palate.
Cardboardy finish. A disappointment - I'm as happy
buying Made in USA products as anybody, but this just
didn't add up. Poop on you, Market Basket and on you
too, anonymous chocolate manufacturer.

That's close to criminal.... but they get away with it...

The pity is that the company has a good reputation.

Jericallas
categories: Mexican, Jaliscan, dairy, dessert
yield: 10 servings

1 L milk
1 stick cinnamon
1 c sugar
1 Tb vanilla
6 eggs

Oven at 200C/400F.

Combine first 4 ingredients in a pot and boil
4 min. Let cool to lukewarm.

Beat the eggs with 6 Tb of warm milk to temper;
strain and beat into the rest of the milk mixture.
Remove the cinnamon stick.

Pour the custard into 10 individual cups.

Put these into a bain-marie with hat water
halfway up the sides.

Bake about 40 min or until a tester comes out
clean and the top is browned. Make sure the water
never boils dry.

Remove and let cool and enjoy.

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