The right tool is key, but caulk is cheap
It’s random-thought week here at the ol’ paper, though to be fair, my brain is always susceptible to chasing anything shiny … Oh hey, a butterfly! Do you see that?
As some of you might know, I dabble in just about all manner of how-to from electrical to plumbing to woodworking. I’ve done some things I’m kind of proud of and I’ve spent hours creating some nice kindling.
I know just enough to be dangerous, and over the years have collected so many tools that Sears borrows from me.
Not saying I’m good at it, but I like it, except when I’m actually tasked with completing a project. Then I remember things like: the job always takes three times as long as you think; the right tool is the key, and it is always loaned out, back at the house, or suddenly impossible to find; reading directions is for dullards, and I am a dullard who never reads directions; and, fairies live inside of my tape measure and steal anywhere between a quarter of an inch to a full inch, depending on the value and scarcity of the piece of wood I am cutting.
If it’s the last piece, or the most expensive, no matter how many times I measure it, it will be cut short.
I was reminded of all this during a recent project involving the installation of some beautiful custom-made cabinets. I’m pretty sure I confidently, perhaps even braggadociously, said that it would take half a day. In fact, it took three full days, in part, of course, because the tools I needed, when I needed them, were at my house and not the job site.
Thankfully, as my co-worker, Lisa, likes to say, “Caulk is cheap,” and it can fix/hide almost anything. It did.
In a somewhat related topic, the best thing about this week, or at least I’m hoping so, is that all of the political ads that I have enjoyed watching so much on YouTube will stop being interrupted by all of the how-to videos they have on that site.
It got to the point of being almost offensive, what with all that factual and helpful information being interrupted by nonsense every few minutes or so.
It’s amazing what people will watch. And believe.
Just an observation, but man do we all of the sudden have a lot of pizza places, though I’m still looking for one that appreciates the idea that there is no such thing as too much garlic, and craft beer joints. I like both just fine, and hope the market can support them all.