Closet lights

April 6, 2008 on 5:59 pm | In House | No Comments

I have finally mounted the lights in our back living room closet — one for the closet in general and one for the corner with all my tools — after months of putting it off due to an irrational fear of drywall screw anchors. (I could hear that there were no studs where I wanted to mount the lights.) Now, it’s pretty silly to worry about anchors not holding when one is mounting ultralight fluorescent lamps, but my phobia started back when I was mounting curtain rods, shortly after we moved in. A curtain rod supported only with drywall anchors will not stay up if somebody gives the curtain a good yank. I was very fortunate that almost all the screws I put in went into the wood framing the windows, but one in particular missed, and I thoroughly messed up the insertion of the anchor, so even to this day, that particular screw is just for show. This time, however, I managed to insert all four anchors flawlessly, so the lights are rock solid — unless somebody decides to use one of the lights as a pull-up bar ;)

Fish

April 3, 2008 on 8:20 pm | In Family | No Comments

So our experiment with a pet goldfish ended in failure after less than a week. We had to return the poor little creature to the pet store, so it could be treated for both parasites and fungus. It was sad to see it go, because it was already part of the family. My wife was trying to give it a name the first day when my daughter discovered it and, without even batting an eye, christened it Nemo. So we fed it, changed its water, and (towards the end) worried about the growing bump on its tail while it learned to recognized us. Hopefully the medication will work, and it will find a new home!

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