Funny you should ask. It seems I’ve been dis-assembling and re-assembling, building and re-building, and just fixing stuff since I was a kid. When I was 11 years old, I took several 4-H classes on electricity. Years later, I would wire-up my own workshop in the basement of my parents home. In junior college, I…
How a touch-up project turned personal
The saga of the repair of my front door Have you ever started a quick project or task and slowly watch it expand into a huge nightmare? I have. Usually for me, it’s plumbing. This time though, it was just a quick paint touch-up. Or so I thought. First, some backstory. It started about three…
I hate it when that happens
Well, I was working in my garage, kind of cleaning up. That means I was mostly moving piles of stuff from location to another. Turns out that the rule is true: the amount of junk will expand to fill any given space. I’m moving stuff around our boats and one of the hand bilge pumps…