Didn't readers digest or somebody do a big home repairs manual? That's what I use, the do it yourself/fix it yourself books. From them I learned how to shim a door, replace a faucet gasket and change a filter.
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese S. - Sep 01, 2012 7:59:31 pm PDT #20672 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 8:02:51 pm PDT #20673 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
JZ, I either have to ignore evo psych guy or tell him to just go back to his cave because I have things in this century that I need to attend to.
Cass - Sep 01, 2012 8:09:49 pm PDT #20674 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh that's a good one to look for, Liese, thanks. There's some stuff that, with a guide, I can totally do. Though for things like turning the gas on for the dryer to actually heat when it wasn't? I called the utility. Yes, I am 99% sure what needs to happen but it's explosive and not in the fun, Fire Pretty way. But I think I can fix the toilet. I just need a diagram and stuff.
I miss Powell's.
Liese S. - Sep 01, 2012 8:36:56 pm PDT #20675 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My problem is that I'm the sort of person who, with a book, or say, the internet, believes she can do anything described therein. Which leads to things like my trash can still being filthy with laser toner because my googlefu allows me to find service manuals when I really shouldn't have them and the subsequent dismantling of laser printers turns out to be ever so slightly more complicated than it looked in the picture.
Scrappy - Sep 01, 2012 8:42:47 pm PDT #20676 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The Reader's Digest book is very useful. I am also a big proponent of asking old dudes at hardware stores.
billytea - Sep 01, 2012 8:49:01 pm PDT #20677 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
But you know, that's a mouthful, so it's easier to say, oh, I don't think of you as Japanese.
I don't think of you as Japanese. I think of you as a Cylon.
le nubian - Sep 01, 2012 8:55:11 pm PDT #20678 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Lee,
I love the red one. LOVE it.
Cass - Sep 01, 2012 9:08:47 pm PDT #20679 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
My problem is that I'm the sort of person who, with a book, or say, the internet, believes she can do anything described therein. Which leads to things like my trash can still being filthy with laser toner because my googlefu allows me to find service manuals when I really shouldn't have them and the subsequent dismantling of laser printers turns out to be ever so slightly more complicated than it looked in the picture.
What can possibly go wrong in this situation?
(Is this why people cringe when I mention that my uncle-in-law loves me best and bought me a creme brûlée torch? I am very safe with it.)
Liese S. - Sep 01, 2012 9:45:19 pm PDT #20680 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm getting a jigsaw for my birthday. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Also, bt, ha, shows what you know. I am both Japanese AND a Cylon.
erin_obscure - Sep 01, 2012 9:58:18 pm PDT #20681 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I bought myself a jigsaw for my birthday an AIFG.
aurelia, you work at the Goodman? I suspect we know a lot of people in common. In news of the small world in which we live, an ex from my LJP days likes that photo.
edited to removed improper use of an apostrophe. Apologies to anyone who saw it and was grammatically scarred.