Man, I surely had a tough week. Leg-se tough, I mean. Because, as many people around here know, I am the insane type of person who wakes up every fucking working day at 4 AM, a time that not even the birds are awake, doing their fucking chirps, "defending" their territory against other males. I woke up at this time because of my previous experience being a shithead, trashy-weed leftovers picker at the 4/20 square, known to me once again by its less than true name, Praça do Papa.
But like I stated here boefore - and will confirm it agai, my times of being a fucking pothead are over, just fucking over. Because not only they were messing with my fucking expensive depression treatment, an addict gotta know when it's time to say "Fuck this shit, I'm quitting this shit!" - specially when you are so fucking stoned you just break a more or less brand-new Galaxy SIII SIM card reader, and turn it into a useless piece of shit. Fortunately, I'm known of being a resourceful, if not cheap bastard who've seen a video of someone reapiring the same part of the phone I've damaged while being fucked-up stoned, and thought, "I could do this too, y'know." - and I did. I bought the broken part my stoned , clumsy hands damaged and replaced it, an it worked like a charm.
As the months passed by, a lot of stuff round my Tower of Solitude became more or less like that phone I could esasily repair. Like the bathroom sink's faucet, that became a non-stop leaking device. So I've opened it up, turned out that wasn't just a matter of simply changingthe rubber disk that seals the water, no. Something the plumbers called "reparo" had gone to hell, thus it never fully closed, just kept on spinning and eltting water leak out. So, I said, "Fuck this, I'll buy a whole new faucet." And that I did - on my universal virtual shop nowadays - the brazilian version of eBay, without the 10000 days waiting for your fucking order fo US$ 3.25 to ever arrive(and that IS a fact, ladies and gentleman - eBay my look tempting, but I do not reccomend it for anyone who wishes to wait less than an year for such cheap things to ever arrive here, stay locked-up on a warehouse on werever, stating that they are under "Customs Clearence" procedure- a procedure that apparently takes 10000 days, even it is a harmless thing like a set of guitar picks.). But we have our own EBay -You know - Mercado Livre. I bought a new faucet there, and changed the whole thing. Not that it waas an easy thing to do, no - specially to a fucking biologist who works as an IT assistant or "forever Auxiliar Administrativo" - according to my fucking piece of shit paycheck. I am not a fucking plumber, but had to act like one last night. Thankfully, after at least one hour or so of frustrated attempts, I've got the thing fixed, and was able to just toss away the ond, shitty one.
There was another plumbing defect that was driving me nuts there - the hygienic shower beside the toilet, a thing that I tried to "fix" by whatever cheap menas available -meanind, the thing was much more of a hygiencid shower made of duct tape more than anything - and I don't know, north americunts are always claiming that "if can't be solved by WD-40 and duct tape, it can't be fixed." - either they are wrong, not a surprisingly fact about north americunts, or there is a way easier solution - you just remove the scorpion from your pocket and purchase a new one. That's what I did - I bought a brand new one on our brazilian eBay also. Yes, nowadays, I'm purchasing everything I need of that site - and most of the time, there had been no errors, except when they've sent an SIV cover for my sister instead of a SII, a thing that's been finally settled in, but not on amicable terms. Also, they've sent us a shitty SIII battery - but that's to be expected sometimes. I heard a brad new one, directly from the Samsung store, goes around 90 bucks, and we paid a third of that, on each one. There'll be some shitty chinese rip-off ones amongst them, to be sure. Of course ther'll be. For a third of the price on an original one? I'll take my chances with the $30 ones. But I digress. Changing the hygienic shower was the easier plumbing job I've ever done. I just took the reamins of the old hose, and attached the new one. I didn't even had to replace the water register. Done. No more leaking, no more duct tape, no more fuss.
Well, I was saying something about eBay, and I've received three things I bought directly from the US - the moustache wax, which turned out to be a disappointment, since I finally figured there a WAY cheaper and WAY mor efficient equivalent on our brazilian version of eBay. Oh well, live and learn. I've also got a brass slide, which I havent tried out yet, sinve I still got that rotthen fingernail on my lef hand, that's been preventing me to play ever since it got crushed by that bench press incident. And I also got the most challenging item of them all - the Crybaby Wah-wah potentiometer. Now THAT will prove to be a challenge to replace, I guess. Because it involves not only tinkering with mechanical parts, there'll be some soldering involved also. From the diagram on the back of the potentiometer case, it looks simple enohu, but I dunno. Well, If I am able to fix this by myself, I'll end up having a somewhat brand-new GCB-95, one of the hottest wahs in existence, and WAY hotter than the piece of shit I got on my pedal board.
So, let's get to it. I'll keep you posted about my failure or success on this one....
