i either want to buy another raleigh bike or build one from parts. thou if i could afford it i might just by an older model rush hour…
there is definitely something to be said about making my own though and since i enjoy building things that might be the way to go… obviously the cheaper one… now to find the right size frame.
Time In shower: 19 min…
Time spent feeling guilty: 3o sec…
Time spent rejoicing that we have GREAT water pressure again: 15 min…
So just as a follow up to the original Mr. Fix It Post…I got the shower head all fixed up… still have to do the drywall. That’s happening this week… More to come… soon.
I was reminded of a conversation I had with my good friend Matt, a few months back. We were sitting at Vintage, waiting for band practice to start, and I said:
Matt, what ever happened to you ripping out that wall to install your washer and dryer.
Now you have to understand… Matt is a musician…through and through. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that…” (Seinfeld, “The Outing”) But you have to understand…Matt and power tools…someone probably going to lose a leg…
Now Matt and I had talked through the process of putting his washer and dryer in the “closet” they were supposedly made to go in…a few months before. I’m no expert my any means…but I like to think that I’m pretty handy with tools and building things…So I talked Matt through what he needed to do and he was like “is that all!!!?? I can do that….” Now just keep that statement in mind…So Matt replies to me:
What is it about being a man…that makes you think, when there is an illustrious task before you, suddenly you are Napoleon and are now able to conquer it without any trouble…
Score: Matt -1 / Wall + 3
Matt, 2 months after the fact had to hire some guy to come in and fix the holes he had created…
I say all this to remind you of Matt’s words…”What is it about men…”
The other day, Jenn and myself were watching this class of kids at her parents’ Tae Kwon-Do School…The kids were having a good time playing this game called “Jump the Creek” (for those of you that don’t know it’s a game where you run and jump over two jump ropes laying on the ground and each round the “creek” gets wider and harder to jump over.) Well one of the larger kids was using the wall as leverage for his power-run at the creek and all that leverage propelled him both across the creek and through the wall. You see, where his heel had been pushing against was now more of a moon crater of drywall.
At which point my own personal Napoleon complex kicks into overdrive and I triumphantly announce “I can fix it!”
Fewer words have brought mankind to an untimely demise than that particular phase… but there it was… I had said it…
Lucky for me, there are classes all weekend long at the Tae Kwon-Do school and so I have until Monday to refresh myself on the way of “the drywall arts.”
All that to remind you of Matt’s words:
What is it about being a man…that makes you think, when there is an illustrious task before you, suddenly you are Napoleon and are now able to conquer it without any trouble…
Remember that before uttering the words, “I can fix it!”
Today is the start of a Mr. Fix It weekend. It’s been a little while since I’ve done any repair work so I’m excited about getting dirty. This whole last week has been getting my room and house straight so this is sort of a continuation of: “get life in order.”
Jeff’s friend Zack is coming into town and so it’s time to fix the shower…
For about 2 months now our shower has sorta sprayed all over the place. Our original shower head comes out of the wall at about the five foot mark, and seeing as my roommate’s 6′2″ that’s a slight problem. Right before Jeff moved in, I got this extender for the shower to make in about a foot taller than it was. Unfortunately, it was a piece of crap, and began to leak…that leak turned into a spray, directly reducing our water pressure. After washing the window in the shower for 2 months we decided it was time to fix the problemed shower head.
Lesson of the day:
What only took about 30 seconds to fix could have been easily remedied long ago… this is an instance in my life where being indifferent could have saved both Jeff and I a lot of headache early on.
