First I cut off the narrow bottom end of the cylinder to remove the tube that goes inside the bottle, then I cut off the top tube that runs to the spout of the pump. That let me push the plunger out through the bottom.

I did the same thing with the other pump, except I had to get the entire tube out of that one so that the only part that was left was the fitting that screwed onto the bottle. To do that, I ended up cutting it and tearing it out with pliers. It would have been easier to use a drill to drill out the center, but then I would have had to leave the room where I was sitting.

Once that’s done, all you need to do is join them together.

You need to get out your pocket knife and epoxy and free yourself.

It’s like a weight has been lifted off me.

The knife is for the pump edits. I’m not recommending self-harm.

In use the tube points down into the new bottle.

It does not have a hole, but the tube is pretty wide.

I had thought about providing a way for air to pass into the upper bottle, but I decided it probably isn’t necessary.

My expectation is that the shampoo is thick enough to cling to the inside of the tube as it drains down, and thin enough to leave space for air to pass up through the center of the tube.

It’s getting it’s first use today. I’ll leave the old bottle draining into the new one until tomorrow morning, so even if it has to do the glug-glug thing, it should still successfully drain completely.

A few years ago I designed an adapter, but then my 3D printer died and I never bothered.

Probably asked my mom.

It took a few decades of thinking about it before I finally acted on it.

I was worried that this would be too exciting to qualify, but then I told my wife about it, and used her reaction as a guide.

That’s what I’ve been doing for the previous 45 years or so.

I got these for the drive-in movies:

http://www.pemotech.com/products/226.html

I only ask because I’m always pushing my wife to celebrate the real holidays.

We celebrated Hot Fudge Sundae Day this year:

Did you do this for Lemon Meringue Pie day?

Yeah that sucks.

I happen to live near a larger city, and there are a multitude of healthcare options around. Two large university health systems and multiple smaller health systems and independent hospitals all competing in the area. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a doctor here. However, I don’t recommend that. You’ll just piss off the doctor and reduce your options by one.

Assuming you don’t have some particular condition that requires a different prep, I’d wonder if your doctor just isn’t keeping up with the latest medications.

I’ll say that the prep was anticlimactic when I had my colonoscopy. Biggest problem was it didn’t kick in when it was supposed to. I ended up staying up much later than planned and calling the emergency line because I was starting to think it wasn’t going to happen.

Then it did. Not anywhere close to as bad as people had suggested. I do have a bidet, which certainly helped, but I’ve had a lot worse experiences from eating at the cafeteria at work.

According to my wife who had to have a colonoscopy in her 30s, it was a lot worse then. She said the prep for the most recent one was nothing.

So, don’t sweat the prep.

I have gotten texts from our Cybersecurity warning me not to open links in texts…and they include a link to a web page for more information.

Ah. I looked at the second picture in the article.

Torso is too short.

I’d still be willing to piss on it.

Edit: Looking at it again, I still think the creepiest part about it is it looks like Charlie Kirk.

It’s a decent likeness, but somehow not quite creepy enough.

I wouldn’t pay money or travel to see it, but if I happened to walk by it and I was sure of not catching a charge, I’d probably be willing to stop and piss on it.

https://youtu.be/QXouoMDOnos

My immune system pisses me off constantly.

It let COVID through three times despite me rigorously keeping up to date with the vaccines as much as possible, and at the same time it has destroyed my thyroid gland and it has declared cherries and peaches as terrorist infiltrators.

I feel like if my immune system is so bored it needs to attack harmless things, I should never have to deal with any actually harmful thing.

It’s like a cop that beats up an unarmed teenager, but hides when someone is shooting up a school.

Yeah, the immune system can be moronic. Intelligent design my ass.

However, there’s something extra special about getting poked in one eye and having your own immune system decide that an eye for an eye means your good eye has to die.