Bill V

I am in the process of installing a new bathroom in our basement. The walls have been framed, drywalled, painted, etc., and we are now installing the vanity. When we mounted the 5-foot wide vanity top to the vanity, we discovered that the wall behind the vanity isn't very straight--there are a couple bows in it, which result in gaps behind the vanity of up to around 1/4".

The back side of this wall is open and unfinished (furnace/utility room). And the wall was assembled with screws, not nails, which were all toe-nailed in place--so we have access to all the framing screw heads. My thought is to back them out and simply push the offending studs toward the vanity, thus closing the gaps. But the concern is that this will cause the mud, or even the drywall itself, to crack or undergo other damage. (This is especially concerning because one of the studs is immediately alongside a recessed medicine cabinet which doesn't get any trim around it, so getting the drywall to finish cleanly next to the cabinet was not fun.)

My wife is "certain" that trying to move that stud will cause damage, and therefore is opposed to doing this. I think it could work, and the gap is visually obtrusive enough to risk it, and to re-fix the wall if necessary. How much can drywall like this shift without damage? Any other recommendations? If it matters, the studs are 2x6 (but NOT load-bearing), and are spaced 12" OC. (The reasons for not using 16" OC could fill a whole other article--but suffice it to say it was correct for the application.)

My daughter's email account somehow got switched to Yahoo Mail Classic--which she doesn't want. But when we try to switch it back to Yahoo Mail (non-Classic), it attempts to go directly to "New Yahoo Mail", and then gives her a message that, "The newest version of Yahoo! Mail isn't available for you just yet."

She doesn't necessarily want the brand new version of Yahoo Mail--the one that "New" Yahoo Mail just replaced would do just fine. She just doesn't want Classic. How do we get her account changed to use that??

Thanks!

I'm constantly dismayed whenever I hear anyone associated with baseball talk about a team being "x games above .500" or "x games below .500", and miscalculate it.

Let's say that after 100 games, a team is 55-45. How many games above .500 are they? The common answer most baseball pundits give is "ten"--55 minus 45. But that's wrong. After 100 games, a truly .500 team would be 50-50--and this team would be only five games ahead of such a team in the standings. So the correct answer is obviously "five", not "ten". Just like when you're calculating "games back" in the standings, you need to divide by two.

Does anyone know the history of how this error started, or why the media and others continue to propagate it?