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billroperToday, I managed to knock a couple of small projects off my list with help from K. The hand towel bar in the upstairs bathroom had been falling off the wall, so I took it down earlier this week and filled the holes with the heavy-duty spackle. By today it was dry enough to work on, so I asked K to fetch the huge level from the basement. Then she held things up while I positioned the towel bar using the level, made a couple of pencil marks, and took things back down so that I could screw the mounting hardware in. It seems to be holding nicely, the towel bar is reinstalled, and we'll see how it goes.
Meanwhile, I had noticed that the "they don't work" chains on the ceiling fan in K's room did not seem to be due to a failing switch, which is a pain to replace. Instead, they were just routed very badly. I got K to help me take things down, rerouted the chains correctly (transferring a missing grommet from a spare piece of hardware that I'd saved), and now everything is working properly.
K now complains that all of her friends are going to ask her to fix things. Knowledge is its own reward or something like that.
In other news, when I was at Sam's Club yesterday picking up a couple of items, I decided to wander through the electronics department for my entertainment and discovered that you can now buy Starlink dishes at Sam's Club.
Clearly I am living in the future. :)
Meanwhile, I had noticed that the "they don't work" chains on the ceiling fan in K's room did not seem to be due to a failing switch, which is a pain to replace. Instead, they were just routed very badly. I got K to help me take things down, rerouted the chains correctly (transferring a missing grommet from a spare piece of hardware that I'd saved), and now everything is working properly.
K now complains that all of her friends are going to ask her to fix things. Knowledge is its own reward or something like that.
In other news, when I was at Sam's Club yesterday picking up a couple of items, I decided to wander through the electronics department for my entertainment and discovered that you can now buy Starlink dishes at Sam's Club.
Clearly I am living in the future. :)