{"id":8247,"date":"2024-06-04T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2024-06-04T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:53:03","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-one-five-six-ugh-and-not-so-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/twenty-twenty-four-day-one-five-six-ugh-and-not-so-ugh\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day one five six]: ugh and not so ugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So the broken door lock was indeed not a problem either power tool girl or I could have easily handled – it took the locksmith almost forty five minutes to lever, chisel and snip the latch assembly out of the door, using quite a bit of specialized equipment -air pumps and such – to try to create space before finally giving up and applying judicious elbow grease, a wrench and a hammer. When he finally got it out, pieces abruptly tumbled out in a tiny little rain of already-broken parts from deep within the latch assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the repair itself was cheap, and the same guy offered a great rate to re-key our other locks as well. So we now have easy access to my office again, and a plan for fixing some of the dead old locks around this rambling home. One ugh problem may just have made another ugh problem go away – which suggests that when you’re facing a lot of problems, you should just dig in and try to fix them, one by one, until hopefully all those problems go away, leaving you with new problems for a new day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: Downtown Greenville’s Falls Park, which is a beautiful place for a walk. Since, in the intervening hour since my last post, I haven’t fixed the backend of the blog. Another ugh …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blogging every day: Today’s exercise was thirty push ups, and probably a walk later, maybe or maybe not at Falls Park. Yesterday’s exercise, which I didn’t blog, was sixty pushups and an excursion in the attic. Yesterday’s read was Neal Asher’s PRADOR MOON, which I quite liked; today will be packing for the Nebulas. Yesterday’s editing was Dakota Frost #4, SPECTRAL IRON; probably also that today. Drawing is up to one five five, so I need to work in a drawing today, ideally two so I don’t have to worry about it while traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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