I tried to do two things today.
The first was to make an attempt to fix my kitchen sink drip. I started by shutting off the hot and cold water to the faucet, then turning the hot back on, then closing the hot shutoff, then opening the cold shutoff. Roughly 30 seconds after each shutoff opening, a drip started. So it wasn't just the hot handle or just the cold handle.
I tried to remove one of the cartridges and couldn't do it. A book I consulted said "don't be surprised if you have to use extreme force." I went to the hardware store to get a specific cartridge removal tool.
The tool worked by hooking into the cartridge, then having you wind this long bar around to get it embedded into the cartridge so that you could then lever it out.
Our kitchen faucet is right up against the wall, which I hit when I tried to wind the bar.
So, I gave up on that. While I'm not good at plumbing, I am good at getting a tool into its original packaging and folding the staples so it looks like it was never opened. I drove back to the store again and returned the cartridge remover.
On the way back, I tried to fill my tires. One of them had been low for a few weeks. I'm used the air pumps having a pressure gauge built in. This one — in addition to eating eight of my quarters and giving me nothing before I switched to credit — didn't have that.
The car has a built-in pressure gauge for each tire that appears when you're driving, so I don't keep a pressure gauge with me. So, I just plugged the pump in and guessed at pressure by eye.
When I drove away, the onboard tire pressure view showed that two tires were at 60 psi. They're supposed to be at 36.
So, I pulled over immediately, got out, pushed in the release valve and counted to 30 for each one. You have to drive for a little bit for the tire pressures to show, so I started driving again, and saw they were at 55 and 45.
I repeated this process four more times until I got back down to normal tire pressures.
So, I got at least one thing done today.