The funny thing about being the child of a person where they worked better after he fixed them, there are fewer broken things to learn their wizardry from. What skills I have a truly appealing kludge abilities.
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Dammit autocorrect, stop trying to shop me around. APPALLING not appealing.
sep 2, 2025, 12:21 am • 12 2 • view
It would seem that AutoCorrupt has somewhat of a fondness for you. 🤨
sep 2, 2025, 12:36 am • 3 0 • view
“Phil’s Appalling Bodge Job” should be a title card.
sep 2, 2025, 12:23 am • 11 0 • view
I can fix many things. They *WILL* work but they will look terrible the whole time and it will offend the sensibilities of competent people that they refuse to fail.
sep 2, 2025, 12:26 am • 22 0 • view
That is the hallmark of a bodge job.
sep 2, 2025, 12:33 am • 5 0 • view
We have been known to say "just ship it, we'll fix it in post" when doing home repair too
sep 2, 2025, 1:32 am • 17 0 • view
I know enough to be occasionally useful and (mostly) enough to know when to say “I need a professional”
sep 2, 2025, 12:16 am • 8 0 • view
And now I’m reminded of The Stupidest Potlight above our stairs, that would take a substantial ladder to get to.
sep 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 5 0 • view
Lights like that are why I own a collapsible eleven foot pole.
sep 2, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
These are worse: you have to remove everything but the can to swap the LED replacement for a halogen bulb. Basically, you’d need to be on a 12 ft ladder on the stairs to do it. I don’t own such a ladder, and don’t care to buy one.
sep 2, 2025, 2:45 am • 8 0 • view
We had that problem for a smoke detector… but our landing was too small for the ladder; so it had to be propped while I climbed over a railing to step across, and then up. Horrid.
sep 2, 2025, 5:23 am • 2 0 • view
My friend had the same situation in her house, but it was a smoke alarm that needed the battery replaced. 😬
sep 2, 2025, 2:48 am • 3 0 • view
I believe you can call the fire department for help. At least the fire dept in Portland, OR did this for a friend. My friend used a cane, so his ego was not damaged by asking.
sep 2, 2025, 2:56 am • 5 0 • view
... I wish I'd known that before I found myself six feet up a stepladder, on the balcony overlooking the double-height living room, changing the battery on a smoke alarm. There are many reasons I'm glad to no longer live in that house.
sep 2, 2025, 2:59 am • 4 0 • view
There's a light fixture above the turn (note that I don't say "landing") in my stairs that I can only assume is meant to be changed by Spider-Man. Genuinely no idea how one is supposed to change it without wall crawling.
sep 2, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view