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So this towel rack fell down. It's been loose for a while but whenever I tried to tighten it, it just didn't seem to hold. So anyway, once it fell down I took a proper look at it. Seems that tightening the screws just distorts the outer piece, which bends it slightly oblong and causes the back edge to curve like a Pringle. I took it outside and hit it with a big hammer to straighten them out again, and refitted it. But I could feel it bending as I tightened it up.

I think I'm gonna replace it because it's just kinda crap. Those fittings are ok for tissue holders, soap dishes, small towel rings, that kind of stuff. But for something that's carrying more weight I think they're not up to the task really.

I've spotted one from Ikea which seems to have better fittings, but also has 'legs' to brace it against the wall so that the forces are less likely to cause failure. And being Ikea it's probably better made in general.

I saw this lying in an unmade road here in the Philippines and it caught my eye. When I say unmade, it's made by dumping a load of stones and dirt and just kicking it around a bit. So it could have come from anywhere but not too far I imagine. There is a lot of coral here, beaches are covered in broken off lumps. But this seems heavier than the usual coral. It's about 110mm long and weighs 437g. It's kind of fist sized. Also, it mostly looks like stone but with two or three clear shapes in it. The coral lumps tend to have a more regular pattern throughout. Or it maybe volcanic, Pacific Ring of Fire and all that.

Google Image search came up with this fossilized mushroom for the large one. Looks pretty close.

So, I'm making a little tool comprising of five pegs arranged in a pentagon. (does that make sense?) So I have a disc with five holes for screws, and for the handle I drew a pentagon as a guide and made five arcs for the sides. Sketch looks like this, the 70mm circle is for the centers of the arcs so I can adjust them all at once.

All good, let's make some fillets.

Fillet is the tips of the star. Fillet001 is where it sits on the base, nice big one for strength. So far so good. But Fillet002 is where it gets weird. You've probably seen the video by now, but if I select the top surface and fillet that I get Mickey Mouse ears with the default setting of 1.00mm. Changing that either more or less and it's fine, but when it's 1.00mm it's weird. If I select the edges rather than the face I only get two ears so it looks even more like Mickey Mouse. (Maybe I should have recorded that one…)

Of course, now that I'm looking at it, I don't really need that handle at all. I can just grip the outer edge of the circle, or maybe make that pentagonal.

File's here if any of you want to see it.

Ticket said "Needs toner" and it does come with a warranty, but if it's gonna cost me a set of toner cartridges to find out then I'm still gonna be out of pocket if it turns out to be bad.

I don't mind a gamble but this may be too much.

We bought this from a Korean surplus store here in the Philippines and I immediately noticed the message on the back. It looks like it was given to the owner of a business maybe? Searching for S Body Fit comes up blank so maybe there's a translation error there. it is handwritten so maybe AI can't read it so well.

So, that's me in the red shirt, in front of the bus. I think it might be somewhere here given that there appears to be a Zurich Watch Co. sign above my head. And there's even an 87D bus in the Google maps street view shot outside the Zurich Watch Co branch on Nathan Rd, Tsim Sha Tsiu. But there seem to be a lot more signs in my photo. Could it have changed so much in 20 years? Probably.

The other shot, not much to go on there apart from the -H₂O+ shop, but Google only shows me a branch in APM mall. Maybe the signs in Chinese might be more use.

According to the EXIF data, the photos were taken about one hour apart, and we were on foot.

Edit. I have my answers now, thanks all.

Missing dog (Shih Tzu color brown with blue collar)

Just now, April 26, 2026-Sunday, around 10am to 12pm, lost here in Barangay Gulayan, Brgy. Mankilam, Tagum City. My dog Shih Tzu, color brown.

It's possible that he went with one of our dogs who was wandering around, then he didn't return or maybe someone picked him up.

To those who saw or missed, please contact me on my messenger account Aileen Paragele Nene.

He's wearing a striped black and white cloth... with blue collar...