The fix is in

And now now, an admission: I have long resigned myself to generally not being very mechanically competent.

Which I imagine is one reason I delayed for way too long doing anything about the flapper in my toilet's tank, which became leaky quite a while ago.

The continuous dripping noise that leaky flapper created finally drove me to researching what to do last Saturday. I was strongly hoping this would lead me to something I could handle myself and not have to resort to calling for a plumber. A search on toilet "leaking noise" led me to a plumbing advice column that recommended using a device called the "Flush Fixer Kit".

I made up my mind right then to obtain one of those this morning, as I'm taking a vacation day anyway, so it would be real good time to work on fixing the problem. I took great care to follow the directions, and was very pleased to find it immediately stopped the leaking.

Another pet peeve

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Namely, people who apparently can't be bothered to flush the toilet! Discovered evidence of that this afternoon at work. Ugh.