Alex Petti

99% percent of the stuff I want to say about the ICE murder of Alex Petti is exactly the same as what I said about the Renee Good murder. The only thing I want to add is that I've been a member of the NRA for decades, and I remember all the way back to the Clinton Administration them warning me about "jackbooted thugs from the Government." Now that we have said thugs, the silence from the NRA is deafening.

For my records, a couple of links to other's thoughts:

A) Harsh but accurate: "Harder, daddy, tread on me".

B) ICE is untrained and unprepared, part whatever: Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure.

C) Man ICE sought in humiliating arrest of US citizen has been in prison since 2024

Water problems

I've said my peace (for now) about the jackbooted thugs roaming the streets under the loose remit of ICE, so I shall spare you further. I will, however, report on two water problems at Casa Gerrib.

Water Problem The First

About 10:30 PM Monday night, I was awoken to the smoke alarm in my utility room going off. I dashed down in my sleepwear to find the small room (which is also the hallway to my garage) full of steam. (The steam looked like smoke to the fire alarm.) There was hot water squirting out of a valve which had been closed for years. The valve had existed to feed water to a humidifier unit I had removed when I got a new furnace. With some guidance from the on-call plumber at Stephens Plumbing and Heating I got the hot water heater shut off. The next day they came out and replaced the valve.

Water Problem The Second

Tuesday AM, I noticed that the sink in my bathroom had a slow drip. Some dinking around on the Internet told me that it was a builder's grade (AKA "cheap") Moen faucet which they stopped making in the 1990s, so it's probably original to the house. In any event, Moen faucets have a cartridge for the interior workings. Putting them in is easy (a mild push) removing them is, well, not. Fortunately when I bought the replacement cartridge I bought a cartridge puller. I found the use of it not entirely intuitive but Plumbing By YouTube cleared things up for me. So now I have a non-drippy faucet and a tool for when the other faucets in my house (all also original Moens, except the kitchen) fail. Oh, did you know that Home Depot now delivers for free!