Gentlemen, listen to your wives. Last Friday I was reviewing my weekend plans: buy a sledgehammer, destroy the sink cabinet and countertop, clean up the mess, and draw Xs through the next five hundred weekends that I’d be doing the…
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How to Destroy Your Bathroom, Pt. 1
Here, I’ll give you the learn-from-my-mistake tip at the beginning: don’t start a home improvement project mid-afternoon Sunday. The leaky master bath drain has forced us to use a basin in our sink and empty it every time we use…
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Fixing Up/Falling Apart
I went to the dentist this morning and oh how things have changed since I last went. They now have TV screens at the foot of the chair, and another mounted in the ceiling. Besides the usual cleaning, x-rays, bite-down-this,…
Explosions etc.
It’s a mixed bag today. Jujubees, peanuts, and that weird orange dried fruit you always leave until the end. I managed to shatter two baking stones while making bread this weekend. Evidently super-heated iron skillet plus cheap baking stone…
Sump pumped!
Aha! Craftsmanship found! In the most unlikely of places. Let’s flash back to last December. Our Big Rain Event of 2008 left the sump in our crawlspace almost filled up with water (the sump is a 18” wide concrete…
