Ravings of a Textual Deviant

The good news is that I have a new faucet in the kitchen sink. A faucet that only sprays water when and where I want it.

Which makes it entirely unlike my old kitchen fountain faucet.

The Good

I knew things were going too well when Spouse was able to install the faucet in very little time and with no difficulties.

Under the sink, however, was a completely different matter.

The Bad

The floor of the under-sink cabinet has spent the past eight years or so undergoing a transformation from the mild warping it had when I bought the house to the non-Euclidian surface you can see above.

Spouse thought it would be a fairly simple matter to remove the floor of the cabinet and replace it.

But of course, my house was built by brain-damaged and probably non-union marmosets.

The Yucky

Because I’d like to think that a union brain-damaged marmoset would know that you’re supposed to run a line of ductwork from the vent to the grate. Especially when, you know, there might be water in the immediate area.

Fortunately, Spouse was in Builder Mode already (still trying to construct a new bookcase for the cookbooks before the old one collapses and an avalanche of world culinary literature gives me a concussion—a task from which I keep distracting him to do things like replace the kitchen faucet) and was able to rip out all the warped-and-soaked pressboard, manufacture a custom duct, re-frame the base of the cabinet, and drop a new floor in, and clean up from the repair, all in about 6 hours worth of work (over 2 days).

Because I thought that taking out the entire cabinet the weekend before we expect out-of-town guests was a bad idea.

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