First of all, I have excuses for not posting recently. I won't bore you with all of them if you will humor me by listening to just two. My friend of 45 years agreed to visit me for five whole days. (It ended up being 4.5 but I don't think it was because of anything I did.) Anyway, in preparation, I decided to fix the hot water knob on the bathroom sink. It started turning hard several months ago and grew steadily worse. My wrist grew steadily stronger so I considered it a trade off. However, at some point it was going to refuse to budge or fall apart, so company was the push I needed to have it replaced. This involved a bit of shopping to find a faucet I could live with without taking out a loan. I'm lucky to have brothers who do this type thing for a living so I was able to get it installed promptly. Mission accomplished! S o you would think. But... while we hanging out in the bathroom I mentioned that I should pro...