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I hunt for the newest place the cats have decided to mark.
I finally decided that the scent in the corner of the laundry room with the washer and dryer was coming from under the washer and dryer.
Moving these monsters to clean under them is very low on my list of things I'd love to do. So in an effort to assist, the washer kicked its drain tube out of the drain pipe and flooded the laundry room.
The wet-dry shop vac I bought in 1981 was one of my best ever investments, even if I can't find the proper filters for it any more.
In fairly short order, I sucked up most of the water, mopped up more, and set up a 20" fan to dry the rest.
And the Eau de Chat Gray is now noticeably reduced.
Score one for fortuitous accidents.
I bought a used monitor from PCLiquidations to replace the one that got catted. The cheapest way to buy the monitor was without a stand. The monitor supports a VESA mount, and I've got dead monitors with VESA stands, so this seemed like a good way to save some 30 bucks and make use of something in the basement.
It turns out that VESA defines the size and placement of the screw mounts, but does not specify the exact size of the mounting plate, nor the size of a cutout that the plate fits into.
The new monitor has a 5-inch square inset for the mounting plate. The stand for my old monitor had a rectangular mounting plate that's about 5 1/2 -inches by 5 and just a little too much inches.
Fortunately, I have a metal grinder/cutter disk that mounts on a drill press. It took several minutes to grind away enough of the mounting plate that I could bend and break off a half inch. A few passes over the grinder took care of the extra "just a smidge," and now the monitor is in place.
I'm afraid I found more evidence of cat under the old monitor once I removed it. I'm hoping I cleaned up enough of the odor to not invite a re-christening.
The low point of the week was taking Mark to his cardiologist appointment and discovering that the appointment was made for the Novi clinic, not the Ann Arbor one where I went. His new appointment is for Jun 15, and this time was all agree on where he's going.