Things what have happened
Apr. 17th, 2013 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13 Well, it was a pretty busy weekend. I swung by the Swap Meet and sold enough of my semiprecious bead strands to fund a couple of lovely cabochons as well as a cow horn hammer. Which is a cut and polished section of cow's horn attached to a hammer handle. Cow horn makes lovely non-marring hammers. Also dumped donated 4 large bags full of jewelry/rock magazines. Which is about 40 lbs of crap I won't have to pay to move this summer, so, win.
Headed out to the coin show, where I exercised remarkable restraint in coin buying. I also picked up another great world coin reference book. By then it was getting on in the day so I just went home.
Sunday was spent in the workshop. Got a lot done, but I need to spend most of this weekend in the shop as well--I have 2, possibly 3, shows in a row. Then I have to mail out art to ConQuesT in Kansas City.
The Most Amazing Appliance Repair Man was out again on Tuesday to work on the Damn Dryer. (He's a nice guy, very funny. When I asked him where the sock-eating dimensional portal was, without missing a beat, he replied "It dissipates when you turn it off. It's only active when the dryer is on.") The first time he opened up my dryer, he noticed that the previous owner had bypassed the safety cutoff--you know, that switch that activates if the dryer gets too hot?--it really bugged him so he brought the bits to repair that as well as the messed-up wheel. He said he wasn't going to leave me with a safety hazard like that. So he installed and tested it, and then took out a business card. He wrote my total and his address on it. I'm to use the dryer for a couple of weeks and then send him a check. And call him immediately if something happens. Customer for life? You betcha. (Added Bonus: his real name is Mike Holmes!)
Headed out to the coin show, where I exercised remarkable restraint in coin buying. I also picked up another great world coin reference book. By then it was getting on in the day so I just went home.
Sunday was spent in the workshop. Got a lot done, but I need to spend most of this weekend in the shop as well--I have 2, possibly 3, shows in a row. Then I have to mail out art to ConQuesT in Kansas City.
The Most Amazing Appliance Repair Man was out again on Tuesday to work on the Damn Dryer. (He's a nice guy, very funny. When I asked him where the sock-eating dimensional portal was, without missing a beat, he replied "It dissipates when you turn it off. It's only active when the dryer is on.") The first time he opened up my dryer, he noticed that the previous owner had bypassed the safety cutoff--you know, that switch that activates if the dryer gets too hot?--it really bugged him so he brought the bits to repair that as well as the messed-up wheel. He said he wasn't going to leave me with a safety hazard like that. So he installed and tested it, and then took out a business card. He wrote my total and his address on it. I'm to use the dryer for a couple of weeks and then send him a check. And call him immediately if something happens. Customer for life? You betcha. (Added Bonus: his real name is Mike Holmes!)
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Date: 2013-05-03 10:57 pm (UTC)When I asked him where the sock-eating dimensional portal was, without missing a beat, he replied "It dissipates when you turn it off. It's only active when the dryer is on."
Heh!
What a lovely bloke.