Sunday - July 18, 2010
So Tired
Damn, I am worn out. Today was one of those Work Your Husband days, the game every wife loves to play from time to time. Today’s version was called rotate the living room because the furniture was boring. So I had to move the stereo system, which is a full-on audiophile setup with really heavy components, speakers that weigh more than I do, and a mare’s nest of thick cables. All on special stands, filled with lead birdshot to resist vibration. Oh, and it’s integrated into a home theater system as well, with a wide screen regular tube TV that is lead heavy and massively imbalanced. I took the time to Static Guard all the cables and apply a fresh coat of Pro-Gold to all the contacts. Put it all together, keeping the signal cables far away from the power cables, and got no ground loop. Yay!
Then the other sofa and the other 2 tables and the leather chair and the other coffee table had to come up out of the garage, while several pieces had to go down to the garage. We live in an upstairs condo. Oh, and let’s use that other area rug too! Thank God she didn’t want the other set of drapes.
Many hours later, and it’s done. Almost. I haven’t hooked up the bi-wire cables to the amplifiers yet, just the first set. But everything is in place, cleaned, vacuumed, and polished. I even shined the little naval bronze tube hats on my headphone amplifier’ tubes. Oh, and all the furniture is what she wants and where she wants it.
Lunch was a frozen pot pie and dinner was a frozen pizza. I think I drank about a gallon of iced tea and sweated off most of it.
But to be fair, it looks great, and the new furniture arrangement opens up the room a bit more. Dishes done, last load of laundry in the dryer, garbage and recycling out. And I’m wiped, it’s late, and there ain’t no beer. And I have to get up at 5:30 for a job. Shower now, then sleep as quickly as I can.
Oh here’s a good one for ya: the shutoff valve (blowout preventer) that blew out on BP’s oil rig and caused this oil spill mess? It was a refurbished part. They saved some money and had the job done in China instead of having it done locally. Figures. Now everyone involved is going to blame it on shoddy Chicom workmanship, and skate. What a pile of crap.
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