July 03, 2016 at 05:50AM

Today I Learned: 1) LEGOs are surprisingly light. Very convenient if you're moving lots of them around. 2) Lots of plumbing features (toilets and sinks, in particular) have values with oval-shaped handles. When the long side of the oval is aligned with the pipe, it means that the valve is open. Andrey Shur taught me this trick, and then I used it a couple hours later to fix a toilet. Let's hear it for plumbing knowledge! 3) I was forced to improvise lunch from a non-optimal set of food choices today, which, luckily, made me try something I never would have tried that turned out much better than I hoped. In particular, today I learned that a hummus and pickled daikon radish is way tastier than it sounds. The combination of sweet and refreshing and crispy from the daikon meshes pretty well with the smooth savoriness of hummus.