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Now the flush is stronger and the tank refill only takes about 1:30

A top-down view inside my toilet's tank where the newly installed fill and flush valves are

I'll spare you the grim photos of the very old, worn parts (including some very bad gaskets!) But I decided to replace everything so here is a pic of the newly installed fill valve AND flush valve. The new fill valve very clearly outputs more water than the old one, so I'm sure that was the culprit

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My parents took us there a couple times in the 90s and my mom made me wear a harness while we were there lol

Fill valve is a really old an uncommon design (Fluidmaster 200A). There's a funny video about it on YouTube where a guy unboxes it and keeps calling it "extremely rare" like it's an expensive pokemon card. Anyway, maybe it's just time for a newer/more standard one.

No ripples in the bowl while the tank is filling as far as I can see

Yeah, I checked the shutoff valve and it was completely open. I tried to clear the line by aiming the hose into a bucket and a little debris came out but not seemingly enough to cause a slow fill. Maybe there's a gasket in the fill valve that has disintegrated and clogged something up? Not sure

Perhaps. It really seems like not much water is coming out of the fill valve and it *may* be upwards of 20 years old so maybe there's just buildup inside it. Will look at the flapper if this fails to solve the issue.

fuck it. Tomorrow I'll get a whole new fill valve

Well into hour 2 of trying to diagnose why it takes my toilet 5+ minutes to refill

Crazy! 87,000?! Set achievable goals!

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Last 10 seconds of this are more jarring than I could anticipate

Gochujang onion grilled cheese [not pictured]

Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it would be circumstantial. But... just wondering aloud if I end up switching to that in the future. I've never gotten covid to my knowledge thanks to continued masking and frankly not going out a lot/working from home. I'd probably like to continue that way.

There's a new, effective drug being developed to treat crohn's/colitis that is a simple daily pill, super safe, and it doesn't suppress the immune system like my current medication.

I still mask up everywhere I go in public. I wonder if I might ease up on that if I wasn't on an immunosupressant.

I think the only thing keeping my brain from becoming unsalvageably soft is all the different passwords I still manually type in

Yeah, just routine. With my history of crohn's/colitis, even though it's pretty well-controlled, they want me doing one every year now.

fuck! i forgot i have a colonoscopy in 11 days

a lot of stuff to redact!

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Still have some way to go to get the egg just right. It is silkier in the middle than yesterday, but it still needs to be more silky and less well-done. But the fact that I got it to take the correct shape, seal closed, and *kind of* do the slice-and-flop on day 2 is encouraging

Japanese style omurice. The egg omelet is sealed closed and laying atop the bed of fried rice

The egg atop the rice has now been split down the middle and it flopped open to reveal the somewhat silky, custardy middle.

The split egg atop the rice, now topped with a drizzle of okonomiyaki sauce

500% closer today than I was yesterday (on stainless steel too)

That's nice to hear. They looked really small and lightweight on the site and made me think $15 apiece was just too much...

things I will eventually improve about this:
- will master the omelet. may need a higher heat on my pan
- will use short grain rice (I have some calrose rice, but trying to figure the egg out before using it)
- might switch from 'ketchup rice' to another style
- will make the brown sauce/demi glace

you mean something like furikake? I don't have that but have been meaning to get some. You're right, that would be an easy add for something like this

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