Category: Murphy’s Law
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Best efforts
Deconstruction continued… So much in life is beyond human control. And, those aspects of life within human control will always be subject to human flaws. Everyone messes up, but if they are decent and honest, they will own up to it and bend over backwards to fix it, as our…
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Rehab Rehab
Deconstruction continued…. Words to the wise: NEVER, under any circumstance, put any type of floating vinyl plank flooring in a bathroom. It’s one of those choices a person who thinks ahead (not me, remember, I’m the one who bought a Smart Oven with tantrum issues) would never make because eventually…
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Half Bad
Deconstruction continued…. My head has become a catch-all of details and images from the past two years. Rising to the surface is acomment made by a dear, departed friend and teacher about a glass of wine: “You know how people are always saying that something isn’t half bad? Well this…
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How Many months?
Deconstruction continued…. With the wiring in, the trench had to be repaired, or, shall I say, covered. The fix was to attach new sheet rock over the old plaster ceiling, not an easy job as the powder room is the size of a narrow closet with deep inaccessible space. The…
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Big ugly scary bug
Deconstruction continued…. Something like this was hanging around our front porch yesterday. Every year toward summer’s end, a large nasty-looking creature appears in that location. Last year it was a giant bright green grasshopper, clinging to the front storm door, daring me to open it. I didn’t. I stayed inside,…
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That Second Law
…or Deconstruction continued Entropy—you know, the thermodynamic principle that order always proceeds toward disorder? Well, entropy and I became intimately acquainted in the broad sense in the autumn of 2024, as our little addition got snagged by one problem after another. I should say that not all of it was…
