💃 11 the of mai

💃.... going to the dance 

' boro is mainly sunny w / high cloud cover. sun at 80 % and seems still

the set up
I have a corner computer stand or desk, a three tier affair. The footprint is small and I look out on the street. not a great angle but I still have an 200 + degree sightline. I can watch traffic coming and going on our wide corner [ really a small cul de sac ].

I type and drink coffee of a morning

OK. " going to the dance ". The JHU Bluejays are record holders for the most National Championships [ maybe ]. The have won 44 National titles but some of those were awarded by Press Organisations and not a tournament result. At the time, of course, the only game in town

Well. They're back, w /  a chance 

Downstairs in the house. For approx. a month, the downstairs toilet would randomly begin to fill [ unused ]. I adjusted the water level in the tank, no joy. The test : let the tank fill, turn off the water supply. Wait.
Yepper. Over, approx 40 min the tank emptied.

This AM, decided to do something. water level good. Water condition dingy to jet black at the bottom of the tank. Touching the black goo [ really ] was akin to oil sludge.
And that's what it was. Research on G ... named the ' black stuff ' as deteriorating rubber dissolved in perhaps manganese precipitates.
I removed the flapper w / some effort and headed for the Depot. No one was available to help so I beelined it for Plumbing.
Well, quick visual and lo and behold the black part that I carried from home was sitting there, new and packaged. BUT not a flapper, it is an ' actuator ' [ still it cost $ 12 ]

Flushed out the goo. Slipped [ yes, popped right on ] the ' actuator ' on and done.

Testing is going on, to see if the tank emptied on its own or is it sealing

Definitely, self satisfying