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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Jakarta: The Other Side
I am fast approaching the anniversary of my first year here on the other side. My previous posts have all been related to life abroad and travel and I obviously am not doing any of the one and not too much of the other. So, the focus of the posts will simply change to ... whatever, randomness, no focus, nothing, Sienfeldesquish.
I came across some musings I had jotted down about some of my first home upkeep/"improvement" attempts a while a back. Perhaps some of you can relate - but probably not as these are quite ridiculous.....
.........Another episode – talked to the realtor the other day about some issues. At the end of the conversation he casually mentions that the previous owners kid is missing, into drugs and has keys to the house. Home Depot has a lot of door handle sets. After a few hours of raucously fun door knob/lock installation – I had all new door hardware......
......put together my new lawnmower yesterday to mow my two foot high grass. it has rained everyday for a week so no grass cutting possible. while dumping the oil into the engine i thought to myself - this mower sure takes a lot of oil - then it hit me that was the gas tank .....
...... the other day i was drilling holes in my wall to hang a knife board in the kitchen. i fired up the drill and went at the wall. the drill bit was hardly making any forward progress and smoking like crazy. so i pushed it harder and finally it burned its way through. half way through hole number two i realized i had the drill going in reverse rather than forward.......
.......successfully hung my first door a while ago. I stepped back to admire my handiwork and realized by looking at the design patterns that it was upside down - and will remain so....
I came across some musings I had jotted down about some of my first home upkeep/"improvement" attempts a while a back. Perhaps some of you can relate - but probably not as these are quite ridiculous.....
.........Another episode – talked to the realtor the other day about some issues. At the end of the conversation he casually mentions that the previous owners kid is missing, into drugs and has keys to the house. Home Depot has a lot of door handle sets. After a few hours of raucously fun door knob/lock installation – I had all new door hardware......
......put together my new lawnmower yesterday to mow my two foot high grass. it has rained everyday for a week so no grass cutting possible. while dumping the oil into the engine i thought to myself - this mower sure takes a lot of oil - then it hit me that was the gas tank .....
...... the other day i was drilling holes in my wall to hang a knife board in the kitchen. i fired up the drill and went at the wall. the drill bit was hardly making any forward progress and smoking like crazy. so i pushed it harder and finally it burned its way through. half way through hole number two i realized i had the drill going in reverse rather than forward.......
.......successfully hung my first door a while ago. I stepped back to admire my handiwork and realized by looking at the design patterns that it was upside down - and will remain so....
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