Did you ever read the story “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”? The story goes if you give a mouse a cookie, they will ask for milk, and so on and so on. Well, I suddenly realized that when I finish texturing this hole in the kitchen ceiling from the leaky pipe, I will need to repaint the entire kitchen ceiling. If I paint the kitchen ceiling, I will have to repaint all the molding. Well if I repaint all the molding I will need to repaint all the walls. If I repaint all the walls, the cabinets will look old and my wife will suggest new cabinets. If we are replacing the cabinets, we might as well replace the countertops, and if you replace the countertops you obviously need new a new sink and appliances. Well, of course, the old floor won’t do, so we will have to replace the flooring. If you redo the kitchen then the adjoining room may need painting and so and so on.
Next time I have a leaky pipe, I will just leave a flower pot there on the table like I originally suggested and leave the hole in the ceiling alone.
Jul 22 - 28
My wife is gone all week at a conference and my kids are gone all week to camp, so my wife gave me just one job to do while she is gone. Fix the hole in the kitchen ceiling that I wrote about a few weeks ago. No problem I said, not thinking that I have no idea how to tape and texture sheetrock. So as I was fixing the hole in my daughter’s bedroom I thought what if you covered the hole with a poster. Nobody would realize what a terrible job I did. I found one lying around the back of a closet. Now, what to do with the much larger hole in the kitchen? I found they don’t make many 4-foot by 6-foot posters, let alone something I could get away with. Shucks.
Sometimes it is just easier to accept your fate and just sleep with the dogs.
Jul 15 - 21
I always wanted to learn American sign language but never really had a need for it. Well, that has changed. You see, my wife and I can no longer seem to have a normal conversation. Having a normal conversation does not require reading lips but it does require hearing the words spoken before you converse back. With drums producing noise at decibel levels beyond comprehension, verbal conversations are now like flip phones, a thing of the past.
Jul 8 - 14
These earthquakes are disturbing. When I worked for Perko’s in the ’70s, I worked in the bay area and I got the misfortune of going through a series of them. One night just as I was going to bed an aftershock hit and without any other noise to cover up its sounds I found it to be the most frightening thing I have ever experienced.
If you search online you can listen to earthquakes from all over the world. However, I find none of these sounds as frightening as being in the same house as my son when he is beating on his newest drum set. After realizing how I messed up last week I bought my son a kid set, but my WIFE went out and got him a FULL-SIZE drum set with all the attachments. If I had a choice I would take the fear of earthquakes over the total insanity of drums.