small victories!

[rmd]

the hallway light in the entryway of my apartment is on a dimmer. the dimmer was old and kinda busted and didn't work great and the knob kept falling off. this has been annoying me for *years*, but i never quite did anything about it.

i finally put "replace the damned dimmer" on my to-do list a few weeks ago.

yesterday, i went down to visit my oldest brother, who runs a (comparatively) big electrical contracting company to help him do his homework[1] because it was FULL OF MATH. afterwards, it occurred to me that i was in an office full of electrical supplies, so i hit him up for a dimmer. he had a couple of old ones and i took two.

then i went home and proceeded to actually replace the annoying dimmer. (in spite of being unable to find a pair of lineman's pliers. i've got at least 3, possibly more, and i can never find them when i need them.)

GLORIOUS VICTORY.

[1] him: "Hey Re, what's a 'logarithm'?" me: "Birth control for Catholic lumberjacks."

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When my dimmers were all bad it was because I am afeard of electrons -- I'll use lye to strip my woodwork, but I'm not messing with *wiring*. But coming from you, this is a pretty "shoemaker's children" kind of story -- right down to the person who has three sets of lineman's pliers not being able to find one. Around here, I, the cloth and sewing addict, cannot always find a pair of fricking scissors. I must have 20 all told, but that does not mean any of them are, you know, available at the time. Yay you for attacking an frustration and prevailing!