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May. 3rd, 2014 10:27 pmI figured out the thing with the Firefox bookmarks. In case anyone else is having the same problems I was, you have to click the star button to bookmark the page, and then if you click the star again you can edit the bookmark, and move it to another folder a lot more easily. Easy peasy.
The bath chronicles continue. After a few swapped comments and a little tenseness with my parents - I don't think it's ridiculous to want a working bath or shower in the house where you live, or just to know what's happening with that situation. But anyway, after all that my dad did some work on it today, and it turns out he can't get our complicated plug switch working. We have a big knob at the end of the bath you're supposed to turn to pull the plug in or out, and with the two different screws he's using it either won't go down or won't come back up again. But it's all plumbed in underneath, and I reminded him he bought a plug on a chain a few weeks ago which will work in a pinch and doesn't require screws or anything. So fingers crossed, tomorrow we should be able to have our first bath/s in a month or two. After the shower broke last week, mum and dad apparently got used to just having stand-up washes at the sink, and thinking that was okay, with no sense of urgency about the situation from what I could tell. Like, it's what they did when they were younger and I'm sure it's perfectly effective and everything, but it's sort of making me wonder how they'd react to other things I'd consider an emergency. If the fridge broke, would we just live out of the cupboards and forage in the garden for a few weeks? If the water got shut off, would we just buy bottled water for a few months? It's like I have to recalibrate my entire perspective of them.
An ETA on a plumber to fix the shower, in case we have another bath problem, is still pending.
The bath chronicles continue. After a few swapped comments and a little tenseness with my parents - I don't think it's ridiculous to want a working bath or shower in the house where you live, or just to know what's happening with that situation. But anyway, after all that my dad did some work on it today, and it turns out he can't get our complicated plug switch working. We have a big knob at the end of the bath you're supposed to turn to pull the plug in or out, and with the two different screws he's using it either won't go down or won't come back up again. But it's all plumbed in underneath, and I reminded him he bought a plug on a chain a few weeks ago which will work in a pinch and doesn't require screws or anything. So fingers crossed, tomorrow we should be able to have our first bath/s in a month or two. After the shower broke last week, mum and dad apparently got used to just having stand-up washes at the sink, and thinking that was okay, with no sense of urgency about the situation from what I could tell. Like, it's what they did when they were younger and I'm sure it's perfectly effective and everything, but it's sort of making me wonder how they'd react to other things I'd consider an emergency. If the fridge broke, would we just live out of the cupboards and forage in the garden for a few weeks? If the water got shut off, would we just buy bottled water for a few months? It's like I have to recalibrate my entire perspective of them.
An ETA on a plumber to fix the shower, in case we have another bath problem, is still pending.
