Oh, I have a fine grump on.

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I tried to get to something today but it just wasn't happening.  I tried more tools than you can imagine.  I read through more useless posts on the internet than I care to remember.  Nothing seems to work, nothing that I can find.  I am actually amazed at how many hex, star, and other tools I have around, and how many types and sizes of those even exist.  And yet not one of them that would enter the hole worked, while two thirds of my tools would not go in deep enough to find out... many I didn't even try as the handles were too long to make the angle to enter the hole in the first place.  I haven't been looking for the tools required to remove the faucet yet.  I may do that before I go to bed.

This project started out as a thing I had hoped to research, tinker with for an hour or three, then have settled for the day, possibly for good.  I understood there was a chance that I wouldn't be able to fix it, if new parts were required.  I did not think I would spend six to eight hours and not even be able to open the thing up.  I will not buy a Moen again.  Oh, I did get their site to function, without compromising my internet security any more than being on the internet requires.  I found a slide show they offered for repairing their faucets.  None of the four I could choose from was my faucet or even close.

It is about bedtime.  If nothing else, I stuck with it until bedtime.  Once I got started that is.  I was either trying another set of tools I remembered having somewhere, doing research including watching some large number of completely off the mark YouTube videos along with a lot of reading and redefining search queries.  Squat is what I have to show for it though.  Still, I am pleased that I went as toe-to-toe with the thing as I was able.  But this is why homeowners just toss, buy new, and have it installed even then.  The moderately poor/lower middle class have fewer options.  Still, I am thinking of buying new myself, buying a much better kit, skipping the installation cost as a savings, and that would be that.  The thing is, if I go to the bother of uninstalling it, I couldn't keep from trying to open it up.  If that is even possible without breaking it.

Tomorrow?  I don't know.  It took me a good long time to get going today.  I do want to transplant some of the tomato seedlings, the extras.  Perhaps some of the pepper plants could also be transplanted, if I think there are so few that they can go right into the barren plots, for the most part.  If I can get to it, I may call my friend.  If the weather is slightly warmer, the sun is out, and I am up to it by noon but no later than 14:00, I'll do it.  No earlier, and later would be too late.  I think.

Good night.

Something to dream about perhaps.  Who knows though.  Sometimes you just make those dreams real.