I feel bad I learned of this via DC Blogs, but the little angry pregnant woman is pregnant no longer! Big welcome my newest little neighbor in Bloomingdale and congrats to BL and Nathan.
In some other unrelated good news, I just discovered my web host now allows for 10 gigs of bandwith so I can post like crazy and put all sorts of large files in the blog. Whoot!
Yesterday got the Truxton Daily Dispatch, which really isn’t daily anymore now that Scott has a job, but anyway…. Included in Tuesday’s dispatch was something from the Scott Robert’s (Bloomingdale Scott, not TC Scott)about the white con man going around Shaw, LeDroit and Eckington asking for money so he can get back to Maryland. At this point I think everyone is familiar with the story. Yet there may be a question of if there are actually two different guys with the same schtick. Reading the collection of stories from residents I’m almost feeling sorry for the guy as residents fight back, literally, with a bat. Folks, let’s not resort to violence if possible. Last thing we need is a resident arrested for assault. Let’s follow the example of the little angry pregnant woman and use our words, very loud forceful words. Angry woman (aka BL) got her money back, with interest.
Of course one could just call the cops too.
Well it took me a while but I did it. I fixed my dresser drawer and I didn’t have to resort to super glue.
The set of dresser drawers were a housewarming gift from my aunt 5 years ago. Now the plastic slidey thingies that let the drawer slide in and out are starting to crumble as old plastic does. Well the plastic crumbled for my sock drawer and I had a choice of (a) fixing it or (b)just letting it hang open until I fixed it. So I went to fix it.
I keep a lot of wood scraps in the underground cellar (short people basement) as you never know when you are going to need some wood for a project. Unfortunately all the wood was either too thick or too thin for my needs. I looked around and wondering if there was anything I could use as a brace and noticed I had a lot of bamboo stored. Bamboo is strong but splits so I taped up the portions I was sawing with the hand saw to minimize the splitting. Then I took the bamboo, some screws and my drill, drilled pilot holes and made a bamboo brace. After a few adjustments I now have a fully functioning dresser drawer. Yey!
