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Today, me and my dad did a small job : jacking up the basement stairs.

There was a big crack and now it is much smaller.

We used a bottle jack to lift them up and then jammed in a 2x4.

All that's left is the baseboards.

Today, me and my dad :

- Redid the drain under the sink.
- Replaced the halogen pot lights with new LED pot lights.
- Reinstalled the ventilation grid.
- Installed various hardware on the walls (toilet paper holder, hand towel holder and towel holder).

Me and my dad finished replacing the taps on the sink.

But after we put it back in place, we notice that the pharmacy no longer opens ! The faucet is higher than the old one.

We fixed the problem by lowering the sink. I moved the support on the wall down a quarter of an inch and my dad removed two of the three gaskets on each leg.

Now, there is about a sixteenth of an inch between the mirror and the faucet.

Also, the drain is leaking. I cut it too short. The solution will be to cut it even shorter and use an extension. My dad will also be buying a new P-trap, as the old one is corroded.

Today, me and my dad :

- Finished installing the hand shower
- Installed three new lights
- Reinstalled the toilet

In about three hours.

We also started replacing the faucets on the sink. We will finish after supper.

Me and my dad finished installing the glass door.

We also installed the valve and rain shower.

We have the hand shower left to install to complete the shower project.

Tomorrow, we will install the toilet and the sink with new taps (we're using the same toilet and sink we removed weeks ago).

Then, the finishing touches like the toilet paper holder.

I tried moving our Starlink antenna to get better signal.

I moved it higher to hopefully get the roof out of the way.

Today was the second load with the movers.

Our new garage looks pretty big now that there is a lot of stuff in it.

They broke a sheet of glass that goes with a table.

I just moved my p97.ca domain's nameservers from Dynv6 to Cloudflare.

This allows me to setup email forwarding.

Email sent to p@p97.ca will now be forwarded to my gmail address.

My domain registrar supported email forwarding, but with Cloudflare I can change the IP address with curl. Plus Cloudflare is free.

The IP address Starlink gives us is public and they say it should not change often. But I like to setup a system that easily allows me to update the IP address of all of my domains in one step. That's why I use Dynv6 and Cloudflare as my nameservers.

Port 25 is blocked both inbound and outbound.

Ports 110 and 587 are blocked inbound.

This means I can no longer host my email at home.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Cloudflare can forward email, but only if you let it control the DNS for the domain. I'm not going to do that for p97.ca.

Yesterday, the movers arrived at 8am instead of the 1pm my dad expected.

It turns out that it was my dad who misread the email.

My dad did not have the time to prepare he thought he had. He was rushed.

It took the three movers about three hours to fill their truck, 45 minutes to get it to the new house and over an hour to unload it into the garage.

Since it was still early afternoon, we planned to make another load to pick up what did not fit in the filled truck.

Me and my dad were inside when the truck started going back home.

When we came back, they were badly stuck.

The road to the house is very steep. It goes straight to the St-Lawrence River and the house's garage is to the right of that road.

The truck went head first towards the river, past the garage and backed up towards the garage.

But as he moved away from the garage, instead of turning right and going up the road backwards (the reverse of what he did to get down), he turned left, hoping to go head first to the top of the road.

He got badly stuck. They spent an hour and a half trying to get unstuck. The tires were above the ditch between the road and the garage. They were shovelling the rock under the step at the back of the truck (it was keeping the wheels up, preventing them from having any traction).

In the end, the guy doing the stone around the fireplaces helped us by pulling the truck with his pick-up.

We did not have time for a second load. We will do that next week. That will give my dad time to move the stuff in the sheds outside closer to the house (one shed is on the other side of the river in our backyard).

Bonus : My uncle (a retired mechanic) changed the tires on our 2011 Ford Escape and noticed a huge hole above one of the rear wheels. Also, the relays we installed for the trailer lights no longer work... Yay.