I’ve never been too interested in my hair. At least not as much as some guys I know. I keep what hair I haven’t sacrificed to the construction business cut short.
So I’m immune to the dreaded Bad Hair Day. But it turns out you can’t get around these things quite so easily. Things just go wrong, good hair or no.
Take my day for example. It’s a Bad Chair Day, which is just as bad, and could have been worse. You’d be hard pressed to imagine the contorted position from which I write, I’m in a three legged chair, if that tells you anything. I bet you can, however, grasp the resigned attitude that would possess a man to write in a chair which has just so violently and unexpectedly failed him.
It’s been a writers block kind of day, another wicked scourge to which I thought I was immune. I’ve just not been able to get in the groove. Every time I start to make some headway, I hit a wall. So I figured I just needed a change of scenery, that’s all. A new venue would fix the problem for sure. So grabbed the laptop and headed outside.
I have choices outside. From my twisted perch I can see twelve solid chairs and stools. A dozen good places to sit. I picked lucky number thirteen and sat down. I’m still shocked at the coincidence that happened then. Right as I sat in the chair…at the extact moment in which I transferred my considerable body weight to the chair… one of the legs gave out. Bad timing.
So in a moment my loving family will be sad to have missed, I dropped back in a slow motion descent the 18 – 20″ (a good height for seats) to the ground. I’m not sure what happened next. I swear I would have taken the hit for the MacBook. I can’t imagine that my instincts would have had me drop it in order to avail myself of my arms and hands to break the fall, but people do funny things. Somehow the computer ended up on the ground. But it works! Whew!
Lucky for me, an extremely well constructed low rail was behind the chair. It was built solidly by a “wood magician” and the striking blow of the chair and myself budged it not.
So here I sit. I reached over and grabbed the computer from the now much closer ground, resigned myself to that just being the way of things today and proceeded to write my post.
That’s Why Blogs Are The Future
This experience clearly illustrates why blogs are the wave of the future. It’s obvious, just think about it.
How many people at the big Home Improvement networks are you going to get to know like this? Who do you know at the big national magazine that is going to be willing to share the truth about a bad chair day with you?
I’m serious.
Blogs offer everyone the opportunity to find information from, and form relationships with, people that they actually know well enough to like. In a virtual kind of way, I can be your “friend who is a contractor”. That is something really new and incredibly useful!
I actually feel like I know the authors of the blogs I read frequently. Even the more serious ones who rarely “let their hair down” show enough of themselves through writing on a regular basis that I can develop, over time, a deeper level of understanding of the information given because I know the source.
I encourage you to interact on this blog. I love going to your blogs and looking at the pictures of your work and giving my two cents or words of encouragement. I welcome questions and I try to get to all of them…If I missed yours, please ask me again, I didn’t neglect to answer you on purpose, I just haven’t mastered my system yet!
I can always be reached by email at tim@remodelingguy.net
Well, If I stay in this crazy pose much longer I think I’ll need a Chiropractor. I wonder if there is a Chiropractor blog? Bummer about my chair. I liked this one, that’s why I picked it!
So, friend, how is/was your day?
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I’ve kind of hit a “mothering wall” today, and umm, yesterday. Not good, much crying, whining and yelling – not to mention what the kids did! I could use a … I don’t even know.
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what a great post – sorry it had to come from falling on your bum! being able to meet new and interesting people has been one of my favorite things about blogging – although mine is currently offline
hoping to fix that soon.
my day’s gone well – took the boys to the zoo and got to see baby giraffes
then was able to sit and just chat with my daughter for about an hour. it was good to catch up on all the comings and goings in her high school life.
and Abbie you’ll get past it, we all have off days every now and then or for a few days in a row. we’re parents but we’re still human. hang in there *hugs*
Better than yesterday. Yesterday was …Monday. Yep. Today was better.
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Yea…it’s just been one of those days. I agree with Susan…Yesterday was a Monday today was better…I will add not much. I found your blog though and LOVE it! Hot water heater shopping with 5 kids tomorrow…anybody want to trade?
Good post for having blogger’s block…..funny, engaging…especially when you allow your vulnerability and invite us to laugh along with you!!! And yes, I agree, I’ve made some great friends already thru the internet and blogging!
Suzanne
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Thanks so much for being my “friend who is a contractor”. Great honest post…Thanks Tim!
I really needed to hear this!
LOL!! Sorry about your misfortune, but I had some of my own the other day!! Just blogged about it! Tell me, who should I call to repair a chipped bathtub?
And I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog too, by the way!! Thanks for “keepin’ it real” and giving such helpful advise!!
Stacey
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I’m so glad that your chair broke it was made for some good reading! And yes, a chiropractor blog would be genius. And a dentist blog and a surgeon blog–we’ll never have to leave the house.
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Thanks for being willing to give us a laugh at your expense! =) Your post reminds me of a quote by one of my favorite OLD preachers, Charles Spurgeon : “Behind every frowning providence there is a smiling Face.” So while I’ve had a bit of a bad day myself around here, I remind myself that there is a smiling Face behind it all, and none of it was by accident. =)
Wow…sorry to hear about your mishap with the chair. It’s a good thing that railing was solid!
I am having a hard time getting in the groove for schooling my children. Just when it seems we get a good rhythm going, some thing–sickness, boredom, disinterest, etc.–disrupts the rhythm and I am left trying to keep it going. Sigh.
On a brighter note, my hubby is getting closer and closer to finishing our new school/ family room!
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Thanks to all of you for your encouragement!
Abbie – I hope today has been better! I know that my day has been better than yesterday, so maybe yours was the same!
Jen – Sounds like you did good yesterday! My oldest boy is 14 and that “high school” time is upon us! I really hope that we can maintain a good freindship all-the-way through! Seems like you’re on the right track.
Suzanne – Thanks! If nothing else, when I climbed up out of the chair I felt like I had at least written something worth reading, even if it had nothing to do with remodeling! I’m really glad you agreed!
Kelly – Glad to see your comment. I see you on Twitter all the time. Did you just get a gravatar?… http://www.gravatar.com Thanks for coming by!
Stacey – I’m going to have to come see your blog to hear about your chipped tub. There are guys who do those repairs for a living… don’t think I’m cut out for that gig. Best bet is to call the plumbing supply house and ask them who they would recommend.
Nester – Your sympathy is overwhelming. Does that really say that you did a post about a framed fork? For real…? I’ll have to go read that, sounds like a good tine.
Christy – I’ve been an off and on huge Spurgeon fan over the years. If my post made you think of him then I must be doing something right!
Q – Don’t you let those homeschool bad days worry you none! You are totally doing a great thing and no great thing is all good times and easy! Just keep at it, keep moving along, and you’ll turn around and they’ll be smart and educated. Trust me! You’ll see.
Looks like I somehow missed a couple… I think it’s the computers fault!
Susan – I hope Wednesday was even better still! That’s the way to ramp it up to the weekend!
Heather – Hope the water heater shopping went well! FIVE kids! Wow! Lucky. That sounds fun!
Okay, how is it that you continue to WOW with your writing, when you say you have “writer’s block”?
You’re the only guy I know that can give contracting advice in a post about falling on your hiney.
Thanks for the mental picture, and the laugh that came with it!
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Too funny, I do enjoy reading your blog.
Debbie
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Well-first it’s your mama’s behind in her jeans now yours all over the floor !! Are you try to out do me with the bone density testing ?
GRANDMA!!!!! What are you doing up so late? I don’t think I could ever compete with you in the bone density… you’re tough! Thanks for coming by!
You are scaring me. I think I have that same chair.
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You crack me up Tim! Sometimes I wish my husband would hand over this laptop so that I could sit outside (on the ground even) and type til my little heart’s content. But for now, I will hang out at the very uncomfortable desk position and figure out something for tomorrow’s Hooked on Fridays at Julia’s place.
Have a better day…
~Misti
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