Today’s deck is the Fablemakers Animated Tarot Deck.
On one hand it’s SO RAD because it’s a whole lenticular deck where hair flutters and whatnot.
On the other dear God the deck is like stacking two and a half regular decks together.
Today’s reading is about not being able to let go of past things as much from fear of choosing something new as for the comfort of something that’s already there.
Funnily enough, this TECHNICALLY fits the nonsense I’ve been going through with my bank, though rather than being born from sentimentality, it’s from not liking my life being uprooted so fucking often.
You can tell my sleep is messed up because I’m measuring things in terms of “sleeps”, like, “Japanese lesson is 5 sleeps away”.
Anyway, this is relevant because I still have cleaning to do and I was measuring if I had time before the visit dropped by.
As I’m moving things from one room to another, however, I keep stumbling on some box… the box in question turns out to be the box of the toilet seat I bought ages ago and didn’t have time to install, and this basically triggered a sidequest.
First problem: How do I stop the water flow? I was tempted to find the main valve for the whole house, but half because I forgot which of the many it was and half because I figured the toilet would have its own valve, I didn’t.
Turns out it has one, I just had to use a flat screwdriver on it, I was also shocked to realize that all this time it was basically a fraction of a turn away from being closed.
Alright, next step: let’s install the new hose…
So turns out the hoses the toilet had weren’t the kind you screw on. I don’t know the name but it’s basically the type that couples to the pipe and then it’s held into place by some sort of ziptie clasp.
So I need to buy a new hose for the toilet (since I had one from the seat for the seat itself). I haven’t taken a walk by this point so I figured I should go and see the “Kohnan Pro Tools” shop I’ve seen promoted here and there since it opens at 7AM.
Before that though, as I’m checking what else I might need I notice a crack in the porcelain and tracing my finger on it to see how deep it was I cut my finger.
So of I go to the hardware store with a small cut constantly pouring blood until the blood had the decency to start drying off.
I swear to God I could’ve signed so many contracts with demons…
I come back with the new pipe hose thing. The Kohnan Pro is neat but doesn’t really have anything regular Kohnan doesn’t already have.
Inspecting the pipe and tracing where in the toilet it’s connected I realize three things.
The first is that I didn’t need the pipe, the toilet is the one thing that had a screw.
The second is that I needed tools to take out the pipe.
And the third is that the crack in the porcelain was bigger than I thought.
Thankfully it doesn’t lead to any leaks, but I gotta start thinking about getting a new toilet in the future and there’s a low-but-existent chance that one day I’ll hear porcelain crack and crash.
After catching my breath I go back out again and get the stuff to loosen the pipes.
Then turns out the base for the seat, the thing where it grabs onto the bowl isn’t universal and I had to replace it, but that one was easy, I was able to even use the same screws and just change the plastic, basically.
Aside from a brief leak from not tightening one of the pipes enough, the fucking sidequest is complete. after 5 years in this apartment and 7 in Japan I finally have a nice toilet seat with bidet.
I test it, my dick is too close to the bowl. I’m assuming I just gotta push the holder thing backwards a bit but I’ve got other stuff to do.
Wish said other stuff was as exciting as this sidequest, but I just moved things from one room to another until I basically collapsed so no novelty there.