small victories!
Feb. 22nd, 2010 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdthe 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."
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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Date: 2010-02-22 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 02:58 pm (UTC)One of the things I've been thinking about yesterday is how taking care of a task that's been undone for a while often frees up a logjam of productive energy, so that I get not only that, but several other things done soon afterward. May this be true for you!
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Date: 2010-02-22 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 03:03 pm (UTC)Ha!
Date: 2010-02-22 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-22 07:05 pm (UTC)I need line put in for my dryer, a bunch of dimmer switches replace and a chandelier replaced with an ordinary ceiling fixture. (the chandelier is a tall person detector and since I wont be putting a table under it and even if I were I need it moved.) The whole house needs GFI sockets. And I got a burned out socket on the deck that needs to be replaced and checked out to make sure it's not shorting someplace and that's why it's scorched.
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Date: 2010-02-22 07:10 pm (UTC)My brother Andy is in Boston. I'm not sure how far and wide he ranges, these days.
I'll send you his phone number.
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Date: 2010-02-22 07:15 pm (UTC)donnad at lj works...
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Date: 2010-02-22 08:27 pm (UTC)(I too have an annoying dimmer. Well, my landlady does, but that's the size of job that I don't bother landlords with if I think I can do it without injuring the house.)
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Date: 2010-02-22 08:30 pm (UTC)the trick is to just not complete a circuit. :)
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Date: 2010-02-23 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-23 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-23 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-24 02:19 am (UTC)2. Small victories is how wars are won
3. This is made of wholesome happiness.