Our house very much resembles a clown car – in that it looks functional and orderly on the surface, but it doesn’t take very long until things start falling off and bursting into flame at comedically inconvenient moments. Take the death of my Xbox on Boxing Day as a prime example.
The task of keeping up with the repairs is almost Herculean in it’s magnitude. As soon as one finger is stuck in the dam, seven more leaks spring up elsewhere. Consequently we’ve ended up becoming rather defeatist in our attitude to home maintenance. Accepting with an almost Russian stoicism that half the plug sockets don’t work and that the shower switches from hot to cold the back again at seemingly random intervals.
Sometimes we are able to snatch the occasional victory from the inevitable march of decay however. Today, for example, I managed to replace the broken screen on my MacBook. I did this single handedly, with only an internet guide for assistance. Not only that, but i also managed to upgrade my hard-drive at the same time. Instead of the measly 60GB I had previously, I’ve now got 320GB purring under the bonnet. Rock and roll baby, rock and roll.
Of course it will all probably explode in a deadly fireball by this time tomorrow. But for now I have a laptop that I can actually use on my lap. And that means only one thing: I can once more engage in my favourite activity of all time – blogging from the toilet.
Look here’s a photo to prove it:
Unfortunately the lights in the bathroom haven’t worked since the beginning of summer, so you’re just going have to take my word that I’m writing this from the bog.
But If people really insist they need proof I suppose I could always re-take it tomorrow in daylight. I’ve been eating a lot of eggs recently so I’ll probably be publishing quite a lengthy post tomorrow, and so can easily tack it on the end.
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Have you ordered Dishwasher parts yet? Would love to have you write a blog post from the karsey of trying to fix that bad boy with only the internet for help.
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@SingleParentDad, I’m going nowhere near that dishwasher. But have yet to decide if we are going to try and repair it or just buy another.
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Haven’t replaced a screen but I did replace the hard drive in my 12″ G4. God, I felt rough, tough and ready to rumble. Then I felt a bit camp and changed the subject as quickly as I could.
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@Dad who writes, I know the feeling well.
It’s interesting how my ideas of machoness are so un macho
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Well, I’m commenting on your post from the toilet mate, so don’t get all showoffy on us. You’re not the only one with class.
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@Kevin Spencer, I’m suitably impressed.
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When we bought the house in 2003, we quickly put these see through Home Depot temporary screens: pieces of paper with some glue on top. I took them off yesterday and put real blinds up. Only in the two bathrooms, but still, very proud of myself. Sad day for the neighbors, though.
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@People in the Sun, you’re a man after my own heart. We moved here at a similar time and have done very, very little. And it’s really starting to show.
I did build my chicken coop though.
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I will never again be able to think of you blogging without that image in my head. I guess the pile of Readers Digest or whatever will now be redundant?
Happy New Year!!!
@Gail, Happy *nngg* New Year
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320gigs won’t be enough..I’ve got 320 and it’s always running out of space :(
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@Arjan, I couldn’t really afford the 500GB. I do have three external hard drives, and will be keeping video on those. But I know – I’ll run out of space eventually.
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So is that what you’d call ‘bogging’?
Any more of this and I’ll be reporting objectional content.
Mark
your house sounds very much like ours. various lights blow light bulbs so frequently we have stopped bothering replacing them. all plug sockets seems somehow to be linked to one in the kitchen which you should never unplug at all or everything stops, the dryer is broke, the handle on the dishwasher door has snapped off making it nigh on impossible to open, the kitchen has been half decorated for about 12 months, the satellite only works in good weather, half the windows are cracked.
Everything is just fine and dandy as long as you don’t touch anything. Ever. Cause then the whole house might fall down, or explode or something. and what ever you do, don’t flip that seemingly spare light switch in the hall. you’ve been warned.
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have you called into my parents’ house recently? Only, their toaster blew up yesterday.
Having said that, half the light switches in our kitchen don’t work but we’ve lived likie that for years so we sre used to it now. Our tumble dryer broke down three years ago but if we threw it out we would lose a surface to put thing s on.
Anyway, I’m rambling. Happy New Year. You’ll be seeing it in my candlelight I imagine.
How about you do something useful while you’re in the loo and build me a MacBook?
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Nooooooooooooooo: that’s like hearing a flush when you are on the phone to someone. It is wrong wrong wrong hahahahahaha xxxxx (ps my house falls apart at inopportune moments too – one day I’ll blog about when my bedroom door handle broke with me trapped in there and toddler daughter with full house at her disposal!)
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Classay. If you were ever to bang on my front door I wouldn’t have to grab a coat and pretend I was just leaving.
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Your first sentence is officially my best ever start to a blog EVER … !
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Did you get a flux capacitor in your new hard drive?
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I dare say you wrote this from the inside of a cave.
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House repairs are a never ending circle of despair. recently just had the bathroom done so now the shower works fine, but we still have loads of 3 slot circular plugs in the house, it’s all pretty bad. I hate DIY
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