Appliance Repair

[Drunk Monk]

Honestly now, when was the last time you touched your sword?

For me, it was Saturday.

No wait, there's one under my desk. I'm touching it now. Mmmmm. Feels good.

[Greg]

Eww.

Statement stands.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Collection, 90% of it, was donated. I’m (almost) sword-free.

There are a couple of knives, but mostly newish.

[Greg]

What?!?! Next you'll tell me you have hardly any books in your flat.

[Drunk Monk]

Well, I’m down with knives. What about whisky?

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Only that Righteous and Most Perfect SCOTCH. All Isla, all the time.

Bookwise... fewer and fewer. If I'm not gonna reread, if it ain't a reference, if it weren't a keepsake, then it is gonna be gone*.

* Does not include The Great Unread.

[Drunk Monk]

Dibs on the knives and the scotch. I'm not so fussy these days. I'll even claim any bourbon. 

When are you meeting those Eastern Europeans again?

[thatguy]

Books are where you store your guns. Didn't you watch Gunpowder Milkshake?

--tv

[King Bob]

I saw it in Five Card Stud, where the preacher has a gun in the Bible. Dean Martin notices that when he opens it to read, he's holding it upside down and shoots him first. The lesson: make sure you orient the gun properly in the book.

[cranefly]

I saw it in Five Card Stud, where the preacher has a gun in the Bible. Dean Martin notices that when he opens it to read, he's holding it upside down and shoots him first. The lesson: make sure you orient the gun properly in the book.

One of the lessons in Drawing on the Right Side of Your Brain is to draw things upside down.  As introduction, it shows text upside-down and says that most people can't read it that way.  I can.  Sometimes I like to show off that ability by reading a book upside down.

Now I think it wise to abandon that practice.

I actually saw 5 Card Stud in the theater when it first came out, but forgot that detail until you jogged my memory.

[King Bob]

I thought it was a great movie, probably the best of Martin's westerns, but haven't seen it in many years - that scene is about all I can remember - so I'm not sure that's an accurate judgment.

[cranefly]

Finally got the storm door fixed.  The screen was fine after my original fix, but the door wouldn't swing closed (out of square).  Had to take it off again, sand and chisel the hinge points down, patch up the screw holes more, make adjustments to the closer, and dwella, closes to perfection.

This was done a couple weeks ago.

Then the day before last I was fixing dinner, needed to go outside for something, did so in my stocking feet, and on the way back in I stepped on a slightly raised screw in the doorway -- right on the bone in the ball of my foot.  I had to bail on putting full weight on that foot, ended up backstepping out the door -- onto something equally painful.  Which sent me back against the storm door, which gave as I fell against it.  I backpedaled all the way around until the storm door slammed into the outside wall of the house -- 180,degrees from a closed position.  That gave me support.

But that storm door won't close again.  I undid all the work I'd accomplished.

But at least I didn't fall.  That's something.  I figure I'm one good fall away from toggling back to a nonexistent state.

Hmmm.  It might be more appropriate to continue this anecdote on the "more broken than you" thread.

[Drunk Monk]

The Appliance Repair thread and the More Broken thread are synonymous to me.