Wednesday OTA

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Meanwhile, via email (from HH), this (slightly edited) list of handy tips. *heh*

Eleven Step Guide to Being Handy Around the House [#11 is my fav]

1. If you can’t find a screwdriver, use a knife. If you break off
the tip, it’s an improved screwdriver.

2. Try to work alone. An audience is rarely any help.

3. Despite what you may have been told by your mother, praying and cursing are both helpful in home repair … but only if you are
working alone.

4. Work in the kitchen whenever you can … many fine tools are
there, it’s warm and dry, and you are close to the refrigerator.

5. If it’s electronic, get a new one … or consult a twelve-year-
old.

6. KISS: Get a new battery; replace the bulb or fuse; see if the tank is empty; try turning the switch to “on”; or just paint over it.

7. Always take credit for miracles. If you dropped the alarm clock
while taking it apart and it suddenly starts working, you have
healed it.

8. Regardless of what people say, kicking, pounding, throwing, and shaking sometimes DOES help.

9. If something looks level, it is level.

10. The politician *spit* principle: If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

11. Above all, if what you’ve done is stupid, but it works, then it
isn’t stupid.