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It's pretty massively windy out, which explains why the gutter replacement isn't happening today. It's too damn windy for doing anything on top of a ladder, or on a flat roof three stories up. A pitched roof would be worse, but we don't got one.

I need to find somebody who can professionally remove about one square foot of tiles in my shower and put new tiles in once the faucets get replaced. I'd take a crack at it myself except it's right where the pipes are, and I don't want to do anything that might cause water to leak either through or behind the tiles. If it were the back end of the shower, no problem, I'd go watch some YouTube videos and have at it. But I don't want anything leaking through the wall, or down into the first floor. (Which, of course, it shouldn't because that would be a problem with the plumbing, not the tile. But I'm paranoid that way for some inexplicable reason.)

Yesterday I finally made stir-fried rice cakes and bok choy and smoked duck and mushrooms, with green onions and garlic and soy sauce. Good thing nobody but me will be eating it, because I seem to have left a lot of grit in the bok choy despite washing the hell out of it after I cut it up. I guess what I should have done is put it in the colander and put the colander in a great big bowl of water, and swished it around for ten minutes. That'll learn me. Anyway, the overall flavor is good, it's just grittier than it should be. It'll be gone by the weekend if I eat it for lunch all week.

Cannot wait for the election to be over, in general.