Good luck with both the sink and the concert, Charmion! You can say you've thrown everything into these projects, including the bathroom sink. (And the kids wouldn't be doing anything you're doing, they'd be doing some artsy kid thing and attracting eyeballs, is all.)

Middle of the night trip to the bathroom last night and I realized I could hear water dribbling in the tank, nonstop. It's slowly getting worse, and the little faucet handle to turn off the tank line doesn't work. Today I picked up a full-replacement kit for inside the tank (why make three trips for parts when you can buy everything in one box for $30?) That's for this evening. I have to turn off water at the street to do the repair. I'll first see if I can change the washer in that tap handle because if I can't I might have to call a plumber and let him replace that handle and then fix the insides. This is where the bidet is to be installed, so it might as well be up to snuff. I have a home warranty now - this is what they might be covering (replacing the handle plus fixing the insides that need replacing.) It depends on how much my share is. Or maybe they just cover clogged sewer lines. I'll refer to the policy.

I did my income taxes yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to have a refund due. It took several tries to get the e-file documents to stick; they fussed about how I entered an address on one form and they didn't like that my self-selected PIN was the same one I used last year. So? I've used it several times. Now they care. So I have a new one. And a couple of other bookkeeping bits, but it was finally accepted by the IRS this morning. In the process of comparing how I did last year's taxes with this year's forms I noticed an odd difference on one worksheet, and realized that last year I made a math error that the IRS didn't catch. It's in my favor so I'll have to submit a revised return to get the rest of that cash. But I'll wait until after this year's forms go through. No point in confusing them.

Last year it took forever to get my refund, it was part of the whole COVID slowdown. Here's hoping Biden has hired all of the IRS folks he intended and it goes more quickly. (Congress has the purse strings, so even though this money was approved last year, there's no saying what programs and departments the current lunatic crop in charge will try to hold hostage.)