New Challenges

I’m experiencing a whole new world of life. I always figured I could be a handy kinda guy. But I’m finding out I’m not as handy as I thought.

Let’s start with grass. It gets water and sun and it grows. You fertilize it, it grows greener and faster. Well, that is if you don’t apply too much of the stuff. Yep, I worked on a golf course and you’d have thought some of the knowledge would have sunken in. It did, I thought, I think. The problem was I couldn’t find the setting on the spreader. So I laid the fertilizer down, boy did I! Thankfully, the grass didn’t burn as bad as it could have been. My gf was very forgiving but I’ve spent some of the summer reseeding and watering. I’m happy to report most of the grass is back.

Running cable through a house shouldn’t be a problem but when you have to fish it around, it ain’t so easy. You can toss away a day and a half on that project. I can’t tell you how happy you can get seeing a coaxial cable coming your way after about two hours of fishing. I’m not talking about the kind where you find animal that spend their lives in water either.

There are also some electric projects, I don’t dabble in that too much, I leave that up to the people who know more than me. I do know that circuit breakers are your friends, make sure they’re turned off and you’ve tested something in the outlet before you start messing around with the wires.

Oh, there’s hanging a door. It wasn’t that difficult but here’s a word to the wise, don’t just go by the instructions. They only work in perfect conditions. By the way, those perfect conditions don’t exist. Use instructions and templates only as guides, not absolutes.

There’s also painting and putting in door knobs, etc. Minor frustrations along the way. I don’t know what’s going to do next but I enjoy getting the knowledge from the job along the way. I just have to resist the temptation to rip up the directions and throw things along the way.

Whatever… time for tennis! Go Federer!